Ten years after shocking audiences with his polarizing The Neon Demon, with a pair of limited streaming series in between, Nicolas Winding Refn is about to make another jaw-dropping return this summer with his newest, neon-soaked feature thriller. Her Private […]

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Among the many Neon titles that graced this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Hirokazu Koreeda’s newest drama explores a vision of the future that may not be too far off from our era. Sheep in the Box stars Daigo Yamamoto and […]

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Now that the 79th Cannes Film Festival is over, it’s time to analyze the critical response to the competition lineup. We have been keeping track of what our fellow critics have been saying about these in-competition films, and possible 2026 […]

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Having premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, Once Upon a Time in Harlem is a documentary you should not sleep on this year. The film consists entirely of footage shot in 1972 at a party that took […]

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Oscar-winning director Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida; Cold War) is back at the helm with a new historical stunner shot in his signature black-and-white. Fatherland centers on life in post-World War II Germany through the eyes of legendary author Thomas Mann (Hans […]

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With summer around the corner and a wave of successful new horror releases, it’s a good time of year to look out for the next slasher. But you haven’t seen one quite like Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, […]

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NEON has done it again! The 79th annual Cannes Film Festival concluded on Saturday night as the jury, headed by Park-Chan Wook, awarded the prestigious Palme D’Or to Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, which the distributor acquired a year ago. This marks […]

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Modern scream queen Maika Monroe is back to bring us all jaw-dropping thrills, this time going back in time to the 19th century to do so. Victorian Psycho, premiering at this year’s Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section, stars […]

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The Cannes Film Festival has just unveiled the official 2026 lineup for its Directors’ Fortnight section. Created in 1969, this section has been dedicated to showcasing the most singular forms of contemporary cinema. Opening the section’s 58th edition this year […]

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Get ready for the next wave of buzzworthy new cinema of 2026. The Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 79th edition, which will take place May 12 through 23. The films are divided into sections, from the […]

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