Cannes Film Festival
‘Savages’ Review: A Heartfelt and Galvanizing Animated Film Calls for Environmental Protection
The latest from 'My Life as a Zucchini' helmer Claude Barras is about a group of Indigenous people trying to protect their land from rampant deforestation.
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‘Emilia Pérez’ Review: Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and the Divine Karla Sofia Gascón Light Up Jacques Audiard’s Fabulous Queer Crime Musical
A Mexican drug lord enlists the help of a lawyer to undergo gender-affirming surgery in the latest from the French director of 'A Prophet,' 'Rust and Bone' and 'Dheepan.'
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‘The Surfer’ Review: Nicolas Cage Goes Entertainingly Mad in Fun, Flashy Australian Thriller
Director Lorcan Finnegan's fourth feature revolves around a man whose surfing plans are thwarted by menacing thugs and even more menacing wild animals.
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‘Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes’ Review: A Legend Opens Up in Nanette Burstein’s Engaging HBO Doc Based on Rediscovered Audio Recordings
Filled with archival images, the film — built around interviews from the mid-60s — is an effective trip back to a changing Hollywood.
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‘Three Kilometers to the End of the World’ Review: An Overly Tidy Romanian Drama About a Homophobic Hate Crime
Ciprian Chiujdea stars in director Emanuel Parvu's third feature as a young man forced to reveal a secret after he's brutally attacked.
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Cannes: Byron Allen’s Freestyle Acquires North American Rights to ‘The Ghost Trap’ (Exclusive)
As part of the Marché du Film at Cannes, Byron Allen’s Freestyle Digital Media has acquired the North American rights to thriller The Ghost Trap, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal. It focuses on a young lobsterman who is forced to choose between right and wrong when his girlfriend suffers a traumatic head injury after being swept […]
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‘Megalopolis’ First Reactions: “Fevered Thoughts of a Precocious Child”
It’s finally here. After many reports about production issues, screenings and 40 years worth of waiting, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The anticipated epic is being met with a lot of mixed reactions (and confusion) from the reviewers, some lauding the audacity of the movie and others questioning its existence. […]
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‘Megalopolis’ Review: Francis Ford Coppola’s Passion Project Starring Adam Driver Is a Staggeringly Ambitious Big Swing, if Nothing Else
Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza and Shia LaBeouf star in an epic reimagining of Ancient Rome in modern-day New York City on the brink of ruin.
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Andrea Arnold’s ‘Bird’ Takes Flight at Cannes Film Festival With 7-Minute Standing Ovation
Andrea Arnold‘s anticipated new film Bird touched down at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday for an afternoon world premiere at the Grand Lumiere Theatre. And it got a warm reception, including a seven-minute standing ovation. The competition title stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda star in the film which follows […]
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Nick Hamm’s Epic ‘William Tell,’ Starring Claes Bang as Resistance Fighter, Sells Wide
Beta Cinema has arrived in Cannes with a slew of sales on its resistance epic William Tell. Currently in post-production, screenwriter Nick Hamm’s adaptation for the big screen of Friedrich Schiller’s play stars Danish actor Claes Bang (The Square), Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson), Connor Swindells (Barbie, Sex Education), Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid, The Tattooist of […]
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‘This Life of Mine’ Review: A Highly Personal and Darkly Amusing Chronicle of Mental Illness
The final feature from French director Sophie Fillières, who died in 2023, stars Agnès Jaoui ('The Taste of Others') as a writer on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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Sophie Wilde, Mike Faist to Be Honored By Chopard During Cannes Film Festival
Challengers star Mike Faist and Talk to Me breakout Sophie Wilde have a date with Chopard during this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The luxury jeweler has selected the actors to receive the prestigious Trophée Chopard, an award doled out since 2001 at the invitation of the house’s Caroline Scheufele as a way to honor cinema’s […]
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