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A Useful Ghost | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Ghost in the Machine: Boonbunchachoke Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost
Spirits, in all their various forms, are an abiding fixture in Thai culture and folklore,...
La Danse des Renards (Wild Foxes) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Fox on the Run: Carnoy Explores Bruised Masculinity
Following the incestuous liaison of Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer (2023), Samuel Kircher (son of Irene Jacob) braces...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’
Unless we count some items he produced, Ari Aster is one of the filmmakers coming to Cannes without any previous Croisette history. A standout...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Hafsia Herzi’s ‘La Petite Dernière’ (The Little Sister)
Actress-filmmaker (she forever stole our cinephile heart for her role in Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain back in 2007) Hafsia Herzi has...
La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard Adaptation
“My name is Fatima,” is one of the constant refrains utilized in Fatima Daas’ celebrated...
Que ma volonté soit faite (Her Will Be Done) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Burn Witch, Burn: Kowalski Nurses a Curse in Sinister Backwoods
For her sophomore feature Her Will Be Done (Que ma volonté soit faite), Julia Kowalski...
Kika | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Belle de Jour: Mourning Becomes Sex Work in Poukine’s Debut
There’s arguably a slippery slope at work in Alexe Poukine’s narrative debut Kika, a far...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Óliver Laxe’s ‘Sirat’
When he was selected for the prestigious competition section this past April, Paris-born Spanish of Galician background filmmaker Óliver Laxe achieved a remarkable feat...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Dominik Moll’s ‘Dossier 137’
Known for a filmography heavy into psychological thriller portraits with noir and crime element trimmings, the French-German filmmaker saw his second and third features...
Dossier 137 | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Investigation of Citizens Above Suspicion: Moll Persists with Police Procedural
Dominik Moll reunites with his usual collaborating scribe Gilles Marchand in Dossier 137, their third...
L’Engloutie (The Girl in the Snow) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Snow Way: Hémon Delivers Unwanted Help in the High Alps
A young, idealistic school teacher almost literally chooses her hill to die on in Louise...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Two Prosecutors’
The Belarusian born, Ukraine filmmaker has loaded up the Cannes Film Festival with what feels like an easy dozen offerings in both the docu...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’
A little bit after this year's Berlinale, there was was a great deal of buzz surrounding a certain German title that opted for the...
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Review
Tom Cruise Can’t Stunt His Way Out Of A Middling ‘Mission’ Finale
At this point in the Mission: Impossible series, franchise stewards — star Tom...
L’intérêt d’Adam | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
No Bandaid Solutions: Wandel’s Suffocating Drama Explores Collective Collateral Damage
Following her remarkable debut Playground (read review), Belgian auteur Laura Wandel moves from a harrowing...
Enzo | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Call Me By Your Pain: Campillo Gently Guides Cantet’s Swan Song
Laurent Cantet was a filmmaker consistently concerned with humans existing on the margins, those...
IndieSponge Episode: 2025 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or Predictions
Before our official June relaunch, Kevin Jagernauth and I deliver our top three picks for what we believe has a firm chance at grabbing...
Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Chef’s Kiss: Bonnin Uses Familiar Recipe in Pleasant Debut
For her directorial debut, Partir un Jour (Leave One Day), based on her own 2021 Cesar...
Live From Cannes!!! Meet the Jury For Our 2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel
IONCINEMA.com has been gauging the pulse of the Palme d’Or competition since 2011. We first jumped into the water when trades such as Screen...
Love (Kjærlighet) | Review
Ain’t Nothin’ But Sex Misspelled: Haugerud Continues Quiet, Earnest Talking Cure Trilogy
Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud continues his sexuality-themed film trilogy (Sex/Dreams/Love) in Love,...
Sister Midnight | Review
Crazy On You: Kandhari’s Strange Fantasy of Madness
It’s been nearly twenty years since director Karan Kandhari’s 2005 debut Bye Bye Miss Goodnight (since then working on...
The Damned | Review
The Damned Do Cry: Minervini Details a Doomed Mission
For his first narrative feature, Roberto Minervini tackles another aspect of the evolving American identity with The...
Exclusive Clip: It’s Chill Vibes (for Now) in Pedro Pinho’s ‘I Only Rest In The Storm’
After premiering The Nothing Factory in the Directors' Fortnight section back in 2017, Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Pinho returns to Cannes this time with I...
Caught by the Tides | Review
The Tide is High: Zhangke Splices Thwarted Romance Across Changing Times
Filmmaker Jia Zhangke presents something of an experimental anomaly with his latest feature, Caught...
2025 Cannes: Bi Gan’s ‘Resurrection’ Makes the Palme d’Or Cut; Bourboulon, Jarecki, Akoka/Gueret Also Added
Finally, they would have been 22. Thierry Frémaux reportedly received Bi Gan's third feature film at the last possible moment and the reason it...
Black Tea | Review
Spill the Tea: Sissako Flounders with Tepid Brew
The level of ineptitude apparent in every regard of Black Tea, Abderrahmane Sissako’s first narrative feature in...
2025 Cannes Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet for Zuzana Kirchnerová’s ‘Caravan’ (Un Certain Regard)
Among the selections found in this year's Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard line-up we find “Caravan,” Czech filmmaker Zuzana Kirchnerová's feature debut. The...
Philosopher’s Zone: Ryusuke Hamaguchi Has Virginie Efira & Tao Okamoto Exchange in ‘All of the Sudden’
Finally one Paris-based project might have leap-frogged another (Our Apprenticeship) as Variety reports that Ryusuke Hamaguchi will direct All of the Sudden - and...
Foster the People: Susan Sarandon, Everly Carganilla & Aubrey Plaza Top Zach Woods’ ‘The Accompanist’
Familiar to fans of The Office and Silicon Valley, actor Zach Woods will be moving behind the camera for his directorial debut - a...
La cocina | Review
Soap Kitchen: Ruizpalacios Underwhelms & Over Bakes Food Drama
Making his English language debut with fourth feature La Cocina, based on the notable stage play...
Bonjour Tristesse | Review
Lifestyles of the Rich, Conflicted & Coddled: Dull Vacation in the South of France for Debut
Ah, summer in the south of France. The cerulean...
Most People Die on Sundays | Review
A Month of Sundays: Said Squeezes Magic Out of Melancholy
The tagline for Iair Said’s sophomore film More People Die on Sundays (Los domingos mueren...
The Scary House | 2025 Udine Far East Film Festival Review
Watanabe Smarter Than Ghosts, but The Scary House Had Other Plans
Venturing into the horror genre for the first time, Japanese indie filmmaker Watanabe Hirobumi’s...
Interview: Dea Kulumbegashvili – April
After making its debut at the Venice Film Festival and touring other prestigious autumn festivals like Toronto, San Sebastian, London BFI, and NYFF, it...
Exclusive Trailer: The American Dream is Pure Fantasy in Nellie Kluz’s ‘The Dells’
Selected for showcases at the 2024 Visions du Réel, Champs-Elysees Film Festival (plus a string of American indie fest such as the Tacoma Film...
2025 Cannes: Directors’ Fortnight Section Say Oui to Nadav Lapid’s ‘Yes’
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid was tipped as a last minute entry for the Palme d'Or competition but that didn't pan out and Directors' Fortnight...
Puissant Paris: Huppert, Efira, Cassel, Niney & Adam Bessa Topline Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’
Megawatt quintet Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa (plus a bonus appearance by Catherine Deneuve) will populate Asghar Farhadi's...
2025 Cannes Film Festival: Kristen Stewart, Anna Cazenave Cambet, Pedro Pinho & Simón Mesa Soto Un Certain Regard
The Un Certain Regard section now have four new items and finally Kristen Stewart's The Chronology of Water finally did make the cut after...
2025 Cannes Film Festival: Lynne Ramsay & Saeed Roustayi Added to Palme d’Or Competition – Ethan Coen in Midnight
The competition section films vying for the Palme d'Or will finally have moved from the initial selection of nineteen to twenty-one with Thierry Frémaux...
Land of the Rising Fun: Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Her Private Hell” Enlists Charles Melton, Sophie Thatcher, Kristine Froseth & Havana Rose Liu
Mark your 2026 Cannes Film Festival calendars folks - Danish genre mixer specialist Nicolas Winding Refn is once again heading out east setting up...
Exclusive Clip: Comfort with Comfort Food in Constance Tsang’s “Blue Sun Palace”
Winner of the French Touch Prize in the Critics' Week section at last year's Cannes Film Festival, New York-based American filmmaker Constance Tsang's directorial...
April | Review
A Vindicated Woman: Kulumbegashvili Constructs Potent, Profound Study in Body Horror
I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves,”...
2025 Blue Mountain Film + Media Festival: Black Dog, Holy Cow!, Souleymane’s Story, Universal Language Selected
The Blue Mountain Film + Media Festival (Ontario, Canada) have unveiled the line-up for the upcoming edition (May 29th - June 1st). Cherry picking...
2025 Cannes Film Festival: In Alice Rohrwacher We Trust – La Chimera Director is Caméra d’or Jury of One
Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher might be the most caffeinated filmmaker on the Croisette this year. After gifting us her first masterwork in La Chimera...
The Shrouds | Review
Death Be Not Shroud: Cronenberg Hits Dead Ends in Sluggish Mystery
The burial business serves as the battle ground for a complicated conundrum in David...
2025 Cannes Film Festival: Bi Gan, Lynne Ramsay, Nadav Lapid, Lucrecia Martel…Who Will Claim the Final Comp Spots?
The clock is ticking—it’s the eleventh hour. The Délégué général Thierry Frémaux is deep in the final throes of curating this year’s Competition lineup...
2025 Directors’ Fortnight: 57th Edition is Book-ended by Campillo’s ‘Enzo’ & Eva Victor’s Sundance Hit ‘Sorry, Baby’
German filmmaker Christian Petzold has finally been invited to Cannes - it took the Directors' Fortnight programmers to roll out their red carpet. Starring...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Week: Laura Wandel Opener, Guillermo Galoe & Shih-Ching Tsou in Comp
Playground's Laura Wandel's highly anticipated sophomore feature L'intérêt d'Adam (Adam’s Interest) is indeed premiering in Cannes - as the opening film for the 64th...
From the Sun to the Moon to the..: Kurdwin Ayub Begins Casting for ‘Stars’
Kurdwin Ayub is not wasting time mounting what appears to be celestial bodies from the sky trilogy -- as casting has begun on her...
