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The 2026 Cannes Film Festival starts Tuesday, May 12th, running through May 24th. The Ebert team returns this year with coverage of all of the major films in review and video form. In the latest from Chaz Ebert’s series of remote video dispatches from Cannes, she breaks down the opening ceremonies and the opening-night film,…
It may sound ultra cynical to say so, but a film such as Phuong Mai Nguyen’s In Waves has no real business at a festival like Cannes. Earnestness just doesn’t play well in these parts, and just when you think the film has reached absolute peak earnestness, it finds a way to sneak just a little bit more in…
Kids should be able to experience the vital rite of passage that is puberty without a war raging in the background and corpses littering the streets. Yet that’s not the case for the hapless Dua (Pinea Matoshi) a 13-year-old whose burgeoning desires to trade sexless cheek pecks with boys and awkwardly shuffle at the local discothèque are…
Kantemir Balagov made a critical and artistic breakthrough with his second feature, Beanpole, a controlled and symbolic pageant of unresolved trauma and the wintry depths of the Russian soul, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic. A member of the Circassian ethnic minority from the Caucasian regions near the Black Sea, Balagov spoke out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in…
Love, in all its forms, has the power to transform us. To make us kinder, braver, and above all, happier. It has the ability to reshape our entire being – but with that force of good comes the potential for a darker path. Curry Barker, known for his horror shorts on YouTube that have amassed millions…
There is an image I still find terrifying after almost 30 years. Picture the scene: you are five years old. Aside from a candle powdered with grey dust, your VHS tapes now fill the two lowest shelves of the pine cabinet, which smells resinous, faintly sweet. Make your selection. After you put the tape in and fast-forward through…
The Cannes Film Festival’s opening-night ceremony, which took place on Tuesday, reliably hits certain beats. The show pays tribute to the timeless art of cinema. This year’s host, the actress Eye Haïdara, did her own renditions of famous lines from “La Dolce Vita,” “Taxi Driver,” and “Notting Hill.” Then the jurors are formally introduced. Park…
The 2026 Cannes Film Festival starts Tuesday, May 12th, running through May 24th. The Ebert team returns this year with coverage of all of the major films in review and video form. Below is a running index of our reviews, dispatches, and video reports from the festival. Video Reports Cannes 2026 Video #1: The 79th…
When the Festival de Cannes revealed this year’s poster, a fetching production still of “Thelma & Louise” co-stars Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis looking lithe on the hood of a convertible, their expressions somewhere between “Come hither” and “Go away,” I learned that an awful lot of people seem to dislike the film as much…
In a 2023 interview, Liam Neeson, who played Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jin in The Phantom Menace, chalked up his disillusionment with the ever-expanding number of Star Wars offshoots to their insistence on contorting themselves to the confines of television. “I’m a bit of a snob when it comes to TV,” the actor admitted. “I just like the big screen,…