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Dangerous Animals A Relentless, Smartly Directed Shark Horror Survival thrillers like Dangerous Animals need to get three things right: they have to throw the protagonist into a tense, high-stakes situation we actually….

Woman and Child Soap Opera Thrills in Your Iranian Drama The second—and far less controlled—Iranian drama in Cannes’ 2025 Competition lineup is Saeed Roustaee’s Woman and Child, a film that, unlike the Palme….

It Was Just an Accident A Darkly Funny and Devastating Moral Puzzle Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident, this year’s Palme d’Or winner, is another clandestinely crafted work from the….

Sirât Road Movie, Desert Rave, Existential Drama. A van cutting through the endless Moroccan desert. A father and son on a desperate quest. A group of nomads dancing through the….

The Plague Charlie Polinger’s unforgettable debut strips away the sugarcoating of adolescence In my pre-teen years, I caught the plague—and judging by how painfully authentic his debut feature The Plague feels, so….

Sentimental Value Creating Art from Generational Pain Following the breakout success of The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier returned to Cannes with Sentimental Value—the most anticipated film of the lineup…..

Shook An Authentic Portrait of the GTA Having lived in downtown Toronto for four years, with friends scattered across the suburbs, I’ve made commutes much like the one in the….

Freakier Friday More Than Just Cheap Nostalgia One of the most successful strategies Hollywood has embraced in the past decade is the rise of the legacy sequel. There’s always been….

Nobody 2 Why Smaller is Better Released in March 2021 after multiple COVID-related delays, the first Nobody was a clear success for Universal, grossing nearly four times its budget worldwide despite many….

Oh, Hi! (2025) An Unhinged Molly Gordon and a Restrained Logan Lerman At one point in Oh, Hi!, a character explains the concept of a “soft boy”—a person (in this case,….