After diving into his childhood in his 2022 coming-of-age drama Armageddon Time, writer-director James Gray isn’t done going back in time to his NYC roots. Having premiered at this year’s Cannes, his newest crime thriller Paper Tiger took critics and […]

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Hirokazu Kore-eda has spent his career making quiet, humane films about families, and he won the Palme d’Or for one of them, Shoplifters, in 2018. Sheep in the Box, his seventeenth feature, keeps its attention on parents and children but […]

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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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(Check out Savina Petkova’s Fatherland movie review. The film just had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Eight years after he was named Best Director at Cannes for Cold […]

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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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After making stops at last year’s Cannes, TIFF, and NYFF, Francesco Sossai’s road trip comedy The Last One for the Road is ready to charm U.S. audiences in time for spring. It stars The Hand of God breakout Filippo Scotti […]

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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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“I’m not sure if we have truly hit rock bottom, but I hope if it’s not now, then it will come soon, because I’m not sure how it can get any worse than this.” – Julia Ducournau  It appears to […]

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