by Sophie Monks Kaufman
Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo’s harrowing docu-drama on the fraught legacy of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide is one of the strongest debuts at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.
Javier Bardem is on magnificent form as a volatile filmmaker attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter, but Rodrigo Soroyen’s drama relies too heavily on gimmicks to land emotionally.
Valentina Maurel’s testing drama about a pair of estranged sister who reunite under difficult circumstances sadly falls back on repetitive riffs.
Lea Drucker delivers a fine turn as a surgeon with a complex personal life in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s drama.
Fish-gutting lessons, seasickness and Cornish notions of home play into the writer/director’s superlative third feature.
Jodie Foster stars as a psychiatrist trying to solve a potential murder in Rebecca Zlotowski’s underwhelming drama.
Richard Linklater’s homage to the filming of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless brings precious little new to the story of the New Wave.
In the wake of this Hollywood titan’s sudden and tragic demise, we look back at the life and work of an artist whose life was powered by empathy and humour.
Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’ searing chronicle of global atrocities as uncovered by dogged investigative reporting veteran, Sy Hersh.
Guillermo del Toro handles Mary Shelley’s canonical text with the tenderness of a butterfly, exulting in the author’s wisdom and sense of high tragedy while bringing his own steampunk spin to the material.
Hungarian filmmaker ldikó Enyedi turns a university’s botanical garden into a site of limitless curiosity as an ancient tree observes the rhythms of three lives over the course of a century.
Pietro Marcello’s half-literal, half-imagined portrait of legendary Italian actress Eleonora Duse is elevated by the splendor of leading lady Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
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