Cannes 2025: The President’s Cake, Death Does Not Exist, Peak Everything
On three Cannes dramas, including the winner of this year’s Camera d’Or.
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Cannes 2025 Video #6: Critic Jason Gorber on The Best of Cannes 2025
Jason Gorber and Chaz Ebert on highlghts from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Cannes 2025: Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” Wins Palme d’Or
On this year’s Cannes winners.
Cannes 2025: Resurrection, Honey Don’t!
On two very different films from this year’s Cannes from Bi Gan & Ethan Coen.
Cannes 2025: The Mastermind, Young Mothers
On the final two films of this year’s Cannes Competition program.
Cannes 2025: Un Poeta, Teste O Croce?
On two very different films from this year’s Un Certain Regard program.
We Relate: Andrew DeYoung on “Friendship”
The filmmaker talks about his longstanding friendship with Tim Robinson, building comedy out of male emptiness, and more.
Cannes 2025: Yes, Woman and Child, The Six Billion Dollar Man
On a trio of aggressively political, confrontational movies out of this year’s Cannes.
Cannes 2025: Slauson Rec, Dandelion’s Odyssey, Lucky Lu
On three films that sketch out worlds that are too close for comfort.
Cannes 2025 Video #5: Chaz Ebert on “Nouvelle Vague” and “Highest 2 Lowest”; Interviews with Elizabeth Guest and Filmmakers of “Average White Band”; Nicole Kidman on Women in Motion Award
Chaz reviews two big releases out of Cannes and conducts two interviews with filmmakers out of the fest.
Cannes 2025: Sentimental Value, Romería, The History of Sound
Two highs and a low mark our latest dispatch from the festival.
Cannes 2025: It Was Just an Accident, Alpha
On a writer’s favorite and least favorite film from this year’s Cannes competition program.
Cannes 2025: A Private Life, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
Today’s dispatch include Jodie Foster’s first French-language film and a sprawling Russian epic about a Nazi monster.
Movies That Deal with the Peculiarities of Being a Teenager: Bruce Handy on His New Book about Teen Movies
An interview with the author of a new book about teen flicks, from Breakfast Club to Rebel Without a Cause.
Cannes 2025: Exit 8, Eleanor the Great, Fuori
On three of the most inventive films out of the fest.
Cannes 2025: Renoir, Sons of the Neon Night, Orwell: 2+2=5
On three films that required significant mullling over at Cannes.
Cannes 2025: Eagles of the Republic, Once Upon a Time in Gaza
Two films from the Middle East explore the relationship between art and power.
Cannes 2025: Nouvelle Vague, A Magnificent Life
On two films from Cannes about famous French creators.
Cannes 2025 Video #4: Brian Tallerico on Mission Impossible, The Phoenician Scheme, My Father’s Shadow, Secret Agent
RogerEbert.com’s Managing Editor weighs in on some of the biggest titles screening at the fest this year.
The Red Carpets of the 2025 Chicago Critics Film Festival
Excerpts from interviews taken at the red carpet of Chicago’s esteemed critics-led film festival.
