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Come Together at the Seams: Music Box Films Lands Monica Sorelle’s Mountains
Beyond Harmony Korine, the Florida film community has produced some solid American indie cinema. Last year, we witnessed this through a family portrait that...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard [Video]
The Un Certain Regard jury of five in Xavier Dolan, Maïmouna Doucouré, Asmae El Moudir, Vicky Krieps, and Todd McCarthy offered a total of...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Competition [Video]
The jury of Greta Gerwig, filmmakers J. A. Bayona, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nadine Labaki, acting folks Eva Green, Omar Sy, Lily Gladstone and Pierfrancesco Favino...
Slaughterhouse-Two: Asmae El Moudir’s Moving into Rabat for “Holy Cow”
Not to be confused with Louise Courvoisier's excellent feature debut which just received its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un...
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...
The Most Precious Of Cargoes | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in Moral Fable
What’s most interesting about director Michel Hazanavicius are his valiant attempts at dabbling in...
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | Review
Woman Thou Art Loosed: Miller Wades into the Wasteland
In all likelihood, George Miller presumably will be closing out his filmography the same way it...
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...
Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
It's been a solid three decades since Shaji N Karun's Swaham competed for Palme in 1994, making this a significant moment for Indian auteur...
Gilles Lellouche’s Beating Hearts – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
The popular French actor working in just about every film genre has been on the Croisette on a couple of occasions but as a...
L’amour Ouf (Beating Hearts) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Thief of Hearts: Lellouche’s Sprawling Romance Has Arrhythmia
A common occurrence for actors moonlighting as directors is not knowing how to hone a focus, crafting...
Karim Aïnouz’s Motel Destino – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
One of the favorited Brazilian filmmakers of the Cannes film festival with Madame Satã (2002), O Céu de Suely (2006), and winner A Vida...
Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
I still recall when Miguel Gomes took over the Directors' Fortnight section with not one, but three films for the The Arabian Nights trilogy (Volume...
Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
If he has the option between the Croisette or the Lido, Paolo Sorrentino is going to... France. His Cannes journey began with 2004’s The...
Christophe Honoré’s Marcello Mio – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Having sprinkled his films in the competition section twice before with Les chansons d’amour (2007) and Sorry Angel (2018), Christophe Honoré has also populated...
Sean Baker’s Anora – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Returning to the official competition for a second time, this is American indie filmmaker Sean Baker's third consecutive trip to Cannes after The Florida...
Animale | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Toro Toro Toro: Amamra Grabs the Bull By the Horns in Transformative Role
For those who champion the bull in Spain's electrifying yet antiquated tradition...
David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
In his late career resurgence with Crimes of the Future having been showcased in the comp in 2022, David Cronenberg makes his entrance with...
Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
Making it three features in a row that'll have premiered on the Croisette, Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi saw his sophomore feature Border play like...
East of Noon | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Noon Gloom: Elkoussy Mounts Shadowy, Allegorical Fantasy
An industrial wasteland outside of a specific time or place provides the backdrop for Hala Elkoussy’s ingenious, but...
Limonov: The Ballad | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Wild at Heart: Serebrennikov Oversimplifies Odyssey of Soviet Dissident
If one were to dilute a Molotov cocktail enough to make its destructive capabilities null and...
Miséricorde | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Kiss Me or Kill Me: Guiraudie Stirs a Sinister Solace in the Backwoods
Alain Guiraudie returns to the ruinous climes of rural malcontentedness with his...
Block Pass (La Pampa) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Will You Be My Ride or Die?: Chevrollier Ramps Up the Chaos in Portrait of Sons & Missing Fathers
Exploring themes of rebellion, shame, and...
The Other Way Around | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Breaking Up is Hard To Do: Trueba Reinvents Couple Goals
Gloriously reminding us that we are doomed to repeat the same existential mundane experiences, in...
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6
Many were left scratching their heads when Cannes topper Thierry Frémaux made The Substance a part of the competition (and conversation) and the reason...
Kirill Serebrennikov’s Limonov: The Ballad – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6
Thierry Frémaux sure does like mister Kirill Serebrennikov. Since showcasing The Student in 2016's Un Certain Regard section, the Russian filmmaker (in exile) has...
Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
His has a longstanding tradition with the Cannes Film Festival this former Palme d'Or winner for Dheepan (2015) moved into a completely different language,...
Jia Zhangke’s Caught By the Tides – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
Both a Venice and Cannes Film Festival veteran, Jia Zhangke is coming to Cannes packing not one but two projects - one being a...
Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
Writer of the 1976 Palme d'Or winner Taxi Driver, and having been in comp with Mishima (1985) and Patty Hearst (1988), this is Paul...
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
A film that went into production as they were still doing post-production on Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness becomes Yorgos Lanthimos' third trip to...
Emanuel Pârvu’s Three Kilometres to the End of the World – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
One of the last trio of entries to be included in the competition was completely off our radar. Actor turned director Emanuel Pârvu's third...
In Retreat | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Man of Constant Sorrow: Ali Explores the Network of Disconnection
There’s an inescapable sense of mournfulness throughout Maisam Ali’s debut In Retreat, in which...
Savanna and the Mountain | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Once Upon a Time in Barroso: Carneiro Speaks Truth to Power
Opening with the gusto of a faded fairy tale, Portuguese filmmaker Paulo Carneiro’s Savanna...
Three Kilometres To The End Of The World | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
It Can’t Happen Here: Parvu’s Agonizing Procedural on Small Town Homophobia
For his third feature, Three Kilometers to the End of the World, Romanian director...
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
Winner of two Palme d'Ors, Francis Ford Coppola's makes a huge return to Cannes with a film that will not go unnoticed in Megalopolis....
Andrea Arnold’s Bird – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
We have two English-language items with two very different price tags in today's double pairing for the competition. The first item out of the...
The Invasion | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Life During Wartime: Loznitsa’s Gaze Blankets Ukraine
Director Sergei Loznitsa continues as the ultimate contemporary chronicler of Ukraine’s past and present, his latest, the aptly...
Locust | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Code of Silence: KEFF Revisits Time of Turmoil
For his directorial debut, KEFF revisits the pinnacle of turmoil during the 2019 Hong Kong protests as...
Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2
The slot belonging to the second film of the competition belonged to Magnus von Horn's The Girl with the Needle (aka Pigen med nålen)...
Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1
We kicked off the competition of twenty-two films with a debut feature, which is worth noting given the rarity of newbies in the competition...
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Other People’s Money: Rosselli Finds Being Criminal is Relative
In keeping with a growing tradition of contemporary Argentinian cinema’s unorthodox narrative structures, editor Hernán Rosselli...
When The Light Breaks | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Grieving Rights: Runarsson Explores Interrupted Mourning
For his fourth narrative feature, Iceland’s Rúnar Rúnarsson returns to themes of emotional disruption with When the Light Breaks....
Live From Cannes!!! Meet the Jury For Our 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel
Except for the pandemic year, we've hosted our bi-daily (sometimes tri-daily) Palme d'Or competition Cannes Critics' Panel since 2011. Over the years, our panel...
Simon of the Mountain | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Face of An(other): Luis Complicates Identity Politics
Although it’s playing quite purposefully with various ambiguities and motifs, Federico Luis’ directorial debut Simon de...
Le Deuxième Acte (The Second Act) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Art of Saying Nothing: Dupieux Deconstructs Cinema
Had Luis Bunuel approached conveying the reality of cinema produced by artificial intelligence, there may have been...
Exclusive Clips: Lorenzo Ferro is Hard to Read in Federico Luis’ “Simon of the Mountain” – 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Among the Croisette items contending for the prestigious Caméra d'Or at Cannes, a fresh voice emerges from Argentina's film scene: Federico Luis, a filmmaker...
Exclusive Clip: Antoine Chevrollier’s La Pampa aka Block Pass – 2024 Cannes Film Festival
In the realm of dirt bike racing, the term "block pass" describes when you obstruct someone's path with your bike and body, effectively standing...
