Eric Lavallée

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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2024 Cannes Film Festival – Checklist of Our Reviews

IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all...

2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Rasoulof, Kapadia, Audiard, Baker & Schrader are Top 5

On awards day, there is what they call le reprise des films de la Compétition - essentially each film in the comp receives one...

2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig Tops Our Grid

And finally, it came down to the wire for not one, but two films that disrupted what had been the top-ranked film among our...

Michel Hazanavicius’ The Most Precious of Cargoes – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11

The only animated film in the competition, Michel Hazanavicius has been a favorite of the festival landing several competition berths beginning with 2011’s The...

Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11

The narrative behind Mohammad Rasoulof's journey to the Cannes competition (his first) will be talked about for a long time. Escaping his homeland (and...

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Interview: Akinola Davies Jr. – My Father’s Shadow

Before he began his maiden voyage into Cannes (being...

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