2026 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
All of a Sudden Soudain – Ryusuke Hamaguchi [Review]
Garance – Jeanne Herry [Review]
The Beloved – Rodrigo Sorogoyen [https://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/rodrigo-sorogoyen-the-beloved-el-ser-querido-review]
Histoires de la Nuit – Léa Mysius [Review]
Amarga Navidad – Pedro Almodóvar [Review]
La bola negra – Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi [Review]
Coward – Lukas Dhont [Review]
The Dreamed Adventure – Valeska Grisebach [Review]
Fatherland – Paweł Pawlikowski [Review]
Fjord – Cristian Mungiu [Review]
Gentle Monster – Marie Kreutzer [Review]
Hope – Na Hong-jin [Review]
Notre Salut – Emmanuel Marre [Review]
The Man I Love – Ira Sachs [Review]
Minotaur – Andrey Zvyagintsev [Review]
Moulin – László Nemes [Review]
Nagi Notes – Koji Fukada [Review]
Paper Tiger – James Gray [Review]
Parallel Tales – Asghar Farhadi [Review]
Sheep in the Box – Hirokazu Kore-eda [Review]
L’Inconnue – Arthur Harari [Review]
La Vie d’une Femme – Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet [Review]

Un Certain Regard
All the Lovers in the Night – Yukiko Sode
Ben’Imana – Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo
Club Kid – Jordan Firstman
Congo Boy – Rafiki Fariala
Elephants in the Fog – Abinash Bikram Shah
Everytime – Sandra Wollner
Forever Your Maternal Animal – Valentina Maurel
A Girl’s Story – Judith Godrèche
I’ll Be Gone in June – Katharina Rivilis
Iron Boy – Louis Clichy
The Meltdown – Manuela Martelli
La más dulce – Laïla Marrakchi [Review]
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma – Jane Schoenbrun [Review]
Titanic Ocean – Konstantina Kotzamani [Review]
Ulya – Viestur Kairish
Victorian Psycho – Zachary Wigon
Quelques Mots d’Amour – Rudi Rosenberg
Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep – Rakan Mayasi
Ulysse (closing film) – Laetitia Masson

Midnight Screenings
Colony – Yeon Sang-ho
Full Phil – Quentin Dupieux
Jim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer – Nicolas Athané and Marco Nguyen
Roma Elastica – Bertrand Mandico
Species – Marion Le Coroller

Cannes Premiere
Aquí – Tiago Guedes
The End of It – Maria Martínez Bayona
The Samurai and the Prisoner – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Mary Magdalene – Gessica Généus
The Match – Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco
Mariage au goût d’orange – Christophe Honoré
Si Tu Penses Bien – Géraldine Nakache
When the Night Falls – Daniel Auteuil
Visitation – Volker Schlöndorff

Special Screenings
Ashes – Diego Luna
Avedon – Ron Howard
Cantona – David Tryhorn and Ben Nicholas
Che Guevara: The Last Companions – Christophe Réveille
Groundswell – Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell
John Lennon: The Last Interview – Steven Soderbergh
Marvelous Mornings – Avril Besson
Molière, Cyrano and the Young King – Michel Leclerc
Rehearsals for a Revolution – Pegah Ahangarani
Spring – Rostislav Kirpičenko
Tangles – Leah Nelson
Le Triangle d’Or – Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz
Women on Trial – Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller

Out of Competition
Crescendo – Agnes Jaoui
La Bataille de Gaulle: L’Âge de Fer – Antonin Baudry
Diamond – Andy Garcia
Forsaken – Vincent Garenq
Her Private Hell – Nicolas Winding Refn [Review]
The Electric Kiss – Pierre Salvadori [Review]
Karma – Guillaume Canet

Directors’ Fortnight
9 Temples To Heaven – Sompot Chidgasornpongse
Atonement – Reed Van Dyk
Butterfly Jam – Kantemir Balagov [Review]
Clarissa – Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri
Death Has No Master – Jorge Thielen Armand
The Diary of a Chambermaid – Radu Jude
Dora – July Jung
La Libertad Doble – Lisandro Alonso
Gabin – Maxence Voiseux
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning – Clio Barnard
Low Expectations – Eivind Landsvik
Once Upon a Time in Harlem – William Greaves and David Greaves
La Perra – Dominga Sotomayor
Shana – Lila Pinell [Review]
Thanks for Coming – Alain Cavalier
Too Many Beasts – Sarah Arnold
Le Vertige – Quentin Dupieux
Viva Carmen – Sebastien Laundenbach
We Are Aliens – Kohei Kadowaki
Les Roches Rouges – Bruno Dumont (Special Screenings)

Critics’ Week
Viva – Aina Clotet
Dua – Blerta Basholli
A Girl Unknown – Zou Jing
La Gradiva – Marine Atlan
Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building – Bruno Santamaría [Review]
The Station – Sara Ishaq [Review]
Tin Castle – Alexander Murphy

Special Screenings
Adieu Monde Cruel – Félix de Givry
Flesh and Fuel – Pierre Le Gall [Review]
In Waves – Phuong Mai Nguyen
Stonewall – Julien Gaspar-Oliveri

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), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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