2025 Cannes Film Festival – Checklist of Our Reviews

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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 sections, including logged reviews and forthcoming ones. Our Cannes coverage continues well beyond the festival dates.

Competition
Alpha – Julia Ducournau – [Review]
Dossier 137 – Dominik Moll – [Review]
Die, My Love – Lynne Ramsay – [Review]
Eagles of the Republic – Tarik Saleh – [Review]
Eddington – Ari Aster – [Review]
Fuori – Mario Martone – [Review]
The History of Sound – Oliver Hermanus – [Review]
It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi – [Review]
La Petite Dernière – Hafsia Herzi – [Review]
The Mastermind – Kelly Reichardt – [Review]
Nouvelle Vague – Richard Linklater – [Review]
The Phoenician Scheme – Wes Anderson – [Review]
Renoir – Chie Hayakawa – [Review]
Resurrection – Bi Gan – [Review]
Romería – Carla Simón – [Review]
The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho – [Review]
Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier – [Review]
Sirât – Óliver Laxe – [Review]
Sound of Falling – Mascha Schilinski – [Review]
Two Prosecutors – Sergei Loznitsa – [Review]
Woman and Child – Saeed Roustayi – [Review]
Jeunes mères – Dardennes – [Review]

Un Certain Regard
Aisha Can’t Fly Away – Morad Mostafa – [Review]
Caravan – Zuzana Kirchnerová – [Review]
The Chronology of Water – Kristen Stewart
Eleanor the Great – Scarlett Johansson
The Great Arch – Stéphane Demoustier
Heads or Tails? – Matteo Zoppis and Alessio Rigo de Righi
Homebound – Neeraj Ghaywan
I Only Rest in the Storm – Pedro Pinho – [Review]
The Last One for the Road – Francesco Sossai
Love Me Tender – Anna Cazenave Cambet
Meteors – Hubert Charuel – [Review]
My Father’s Shadow – Akinola Davies Jr.
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo – Diego Céspedes
Once Upon a Time in Gaza – Tarzan and Arab Nasser
A Pale View of Hills – Kei Ishikawa
Pillion – Harry Lighton
The Plague – Charlie Polinger
Promised Sky (opening film) – Erige Sehiri
Un Poeta – Mesa Soto
Urchin – Harris Dickinson

Out of Competition
13 Hours, 13 Days – Martin Bourboulon
Colours of Time – Cédric Klapisch
Highest 2 Lowest – Spike Lee
Partir un jour – Amélie Bonnin – [Review]
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning – Christopher McQuarrie [Review]
Vie privée – Rebecca Zlotowski
The Richest Woman in the World – Thierry Klifa [Review]

Midnight Screenings
Exit 8 – Genki Kawamura
Honey Don’t! – Ethan Coen
Le Roi Soleil – Vincent Maël Cardona
Dalloway – Yann Gozlan
Sons of the Neon Night – Juno Mak

Cannes Premiere
Amrum – Fatih Akin
Connemara – Alex Lutz
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele – Kirill Serebrennikov
Love on Trial – Koji Fukada
The Love That Remains – Hlynur Pálmason
Magellan – Lav Diaz
Orwell: 2+2=5 – Raoul Peck
Splitsville – Michael Angelo Covino
Ma frère – Lisa Akoko and Romane Gueret
The Wave – Sebastián Lelio

Special Screenings
Arco – Ugo Bienvenu
Bono: Stories of Surrender – Andrew Dominik
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain – Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han
A Magnificent Life – Sylvain Chomet
Mama – Or Sinai
The Six Billion Dollar Man – Eugene Jarecki
Tell Her That I Love Her – Romane Bohringer [Review]
The Wonderers – Joséphine Japy

Directors’ Fortnight
Enzo – Robin Campillo (opening film) – [Review]
Wild Foxes – Valery Cornoy – [Review]
Death Does Not Exist – Feliz Dufour-Laperriere
L’Engloutie – Louise Hemon – [Review]
Kokouho – Lee Sang-il
Lucky Lu – Lloyd Lee Choi
Militantropos – Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova & Simon Mozgovyi
Girl on Edge – Jinghao Zhou
Middle Class – Anthony Cordier
Mirrors No. 3 – Christian Petzold
The Girls We Want – Princia Car
Dangerous Animals – Sean Byrne
Peak Everything – Anne Émond
The President’s Cake – Hasan Hadi
Indomptables – Thomas Ngijol
Brand New Landscape – Yuiga Danzuka
Que Ma Volonte Soit Faite – Julia Kowalski – [Review]
Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor
YES – Nadav Lapid – [Review]

Critics’ Week
Sleepless City – Guillermo Galoe [Review]
Imago – Déni Oumar Pitsaev
Kika – Alexe Poukine – [Review]
Left-Handed Girl – Shih-Ching Tsou
Nino – Pauline Loquès
A Useful Ghost – Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke [Review]
Rietland – Sven Bresser
L’intérêt d’Adam – Laura Wandel (Opening Film) – Special Screenings – [Review]
Baise en ville – Martin Jauvat – Special Screenings
Love Letters – Alice Douard – Special Screenings [Review]
Dandelion’s Odyssey – Momoko Seto (Closing Film) – Special Screenings

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
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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