Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s Anora wins Palme d’Or
The director of “The Florida Project” and “Red Rocket” won the festival’s top prize for his film about a Brighton Beach sex worker.
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2024: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine as Light, The Most Precious of Cargoes
The director Mohammad Rasoulof attended Cannes after a dramatic escape from Iran, and with a showstopper of a film.
Cannes 2024: My Sunshine, Rumours, The Balconettes
Our latest dispatch concerns a trio of films with wildly disparate tones, from coming-of-age queer drama to feminist ghost picture.
Cannes 2024: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, The Village Next to Paradise, Viet and Nam
Three films at Cannes explore the many ways in which death begets truth — about secrets, love, and identity.
Cannes 2024: Grand Tour, Motel Destino, Beating Hearts
Portugal’s Miguel Gomes, Brazil’s Karim Aïnouz, and France’s Gilles Lellouche deliver some of the odder offerings of the competition.
Cannes 2024 Diary 2: International Genre Picks
Jason Gorber picks some of the most interesting international crime, wuxia and animated films from the Cannes Film Festival.
Cannes 2024: Marcello Mio, Parthenope, Elementary
The competition runs into a bit of a rut with new films by Christophe Honoré and Paolo Sorrentino.
Cannes 2024: Anora, Limonov, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, Lula
Set around New Year’s, Sean Baker’s Anora plays like a crypto-sequel to his Christmas story Tangerine.
Cannes 2024: Blue Sun Palace, Julie Keeps Quiet, Simon of the Mountain
On three films from the Critics Week section of Cannes 2024.
Cannes 2024: The Apprentice, The Shrouds
“The Apprentice” depicts the friendship between Donald Trump and Roy Cohn, while in “The Shrouds,” David Cronenberg reflects on old obsessions.
Cannes 2024: The Weirdo Films of Cannes
One the weird, the gonzo, and the unusual amongst the offerings of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Cannes 2024: The Substance, Visiting Hours
“The Substance,” a body-horror film starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, hit Cannes at just the right time.
Chaz Ebert and Ebertfest Honored By Experience Champaign-Urbana Foundation’s Toast of Tourism
The award honors her work with Ebertfest and its impact on the broader community of Champaign-Urbana.
Cannes 2024: Emilia Pérez, Three Kilometers to the End of the World, Caught by the Tides
Jacques Audiard is one of the last directors you’d expect to make an original musical starring Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez.
Cannes 2024: Megalopolis
Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious, long-awaited opus is his “Chi-raq.”
Cannes 2024: Kinds of Kindness; Oh, Canada; Scénarios
Anyone who sees “Kind of Kindness” expecting “Poor Things 2” is in for a nasty shock.
Cannes 2024: Megalopolis, Bird, The Damned, Meeting with Pol Pot
Francis Ford Coppola’s ridiculously long-in-the-making opus is unwieldy but hardly unwatchable.
The Ebert Fellows Go to Ebertfest 2024
A report from this year’s Ebertfest from the Ebert Fellows.
Two More Weeks in the Midday Sun
Reflecting on Roger’s 1987 book about his travails at the Cannes Film Festival.
Cannes 2024: The Girl with the Needle, Wild Diamond
The first two competition films had a lot in common, despite being set a century apart.
