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.
Festivals & Awards
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.
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: 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.
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.
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.
Cannes 2025: The Secret Agent, The Love That Remains, Magellan
The scope of Cannes expands and contracts with three films that either peer into hometowns or box in their cinematic frames.
Cannes 2025: My Father’s Shadow, Enzo, Dalloway
Our most recent dispatch covers films about various kinds of losses — from family to self.
Cannes 2025: The Chronology of Water, Urchin
Two directorial debuts from high-profile actors are explored in our latest Cannes dispatch.
Cannes 2025: Die My Love, Pillion, Miroirs No. 3
On three Cannes premieres, including films from Lynne Ramsay, Christian Petzold, and one of the best debuts in years.
Cannes 2025: A Useful Ghost, Arco
Ghostly household appliances and a boy from the future mark two of Cannes’ more out-there entries this year.
