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Screen Internationalcan reveal the critics participating in this year’s jury grid at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).

JoiningScreen’s reviewing team will be critics from 11 international outlets to give their verdict on the 21 films in Competition this year for the Palme d’Or.

This year’s critics are all returners to the jury grid.

The results of the jury grid will be published inScreen’s Cannes daily magazines as well as live updates on screendaily.com.

The 2025 Cannes jury grid critics are: Nt Binh -Positif, France Robbie Collin / Tim Robey –The Telegraph, UK Katja Nicodemus –Die Zeit, Germany Ben Kenigsberg –Rogertebert.

The Amateur opens Friday from director James Hawes, with Oscar winner Rami Malek playing a CIA cryptographer who seeks revenge against his wife's killers. Critics' reviews are mixed overall, with the action thriller earning a 65 percent at Rotten Tomatoes and a 53 score on Metacritic.

Based on the 1981 novel by Robert Littell, the 20th Century Studios' version of The Amateur plays out like Jason Bourne meets The Da Vinci Code, with Malek's "nerdy" character Charles "Charlie" Heller being praised by film experts as an "unlikely action hero." Joining him in the cast are Laurence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, and Julianne Nicholson.

Before winning his Oscar for portraying Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), Malek took home an Emmy for his role as geeky computer hacker Elliot Alderson in Mr. Robot (2016). In other words, playing a character like Charlie, who specializes in cryptology, is right up his alley.

Actor Millie Bobby Brown’s £245M Netflix Epic (Photo Credit – Netflix)

Netflix’s latest blockbuster, The Electric State, was meant to be a triumph after spending a staggering $320 Million budget and setting the record as the streamers most expensive project ever.

Besides, the film also boasted an ensemble cast of Hollywood heavyweights, such as Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, backed by Woody Harrelson, Ke Huy Quan, Stanley Tucci, Anthony Mackie, and Giancarlo Esposito. And with the Russo brothers, the minds behind the last two Avengers films, at the helm, what could possibly go wrong?

Turns out, quite a lot, apparently.

A Sci-Fi Premise That Should Have Soared

Instead of universal acclaim, the film has been met with an avalanche of criticism, now sitting at a bleak 15% on Rotten Tomatoes. Its ambitious premise, which is a post-war world where robots once fought for their rights, and Brown’s character embarking...

In April 2015, The Hollywood Reporter noted that Warner Bros. was preparing to "flood the market" that summer with a slate of nine films designed to fill the gap left by the absence of Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy and the "Harry Potter" films. At the time, Warner's domestic distribution chief Dan Fellman told the outlet, "It will be tough work, but I think it will pay off."

In some ways, WB's approach did pay off. The Dwayne Johnson-led "San Andreas," produced on a budget of $110 million, raked in $474 million worldwide. And while "Mad Max: Fury Road" didn't fare quite as well, making $380 million worldwide on a $150 million budget, it did at least garner critical acclaim and remains one of the best movies in the "Mad Max" saga. But one big-budget Warner project failed spectacularly on both a critical and commercial front.

A Peter Pan origin story...

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” released in limited theaters on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, so now is the perfect time to check out some of its glowing critics’ reviews.

First up, a bit of a primer. This Persian language political thriller comes from Iranian writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof, but it’s actually Germany’s Oscars submission for Best International Feature because Rasoulof has fled political persecution in his native country. The plot follows an investigating judge (Missagh Zareh) who grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun disappears, he suspects his wife (Soheila Golestani) and daughters, and imposes fearful measures that strain family ties all while societal rules crumble.

During the Cannes Film Festival, Rasoulof discussed the government’s targeting of him and his films in an interview with The Guardian, saying, “Like any other dictatorship or totalitarian system, they want absolute control over images they don’t like...

Originally, Francis Ford Coppola wanted to use an Alexa device to let audiences interact with his epic, Megalopolis. Then job losses at Amazon blew the idea.

When Megalopolis made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, several reviews described a fascinating detail. At a certain point in Francis Ford Coppola’s fantastical epic, an usher walked up to the front of the cinema and began directly addressing the screen in a brief back-and-forth with Cesar, the character played by Adam Driver.

So what’s that all about?

A fascinating interview by Robbie Collin over at The Telegraph has the answer. In it, Coppola explains that, while he was readying production on Megalopolis in 2021, he had the idea of allowing the audience to interact with the movie, at least in one specific scene. To achieve this, he made a deal with Amazon to produce a specialised version of its Alexa device,...

Reviews of Todd Phillips’ “Joker: Folie á Deux” have officially been filed, and critics say the “Joker” sequel was a waste of Lady Gaga’s talent. Some even added that the flick simply wasn’t needed or doesn’t measure up to its predecessor.

The film, which stars Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Harry Lawtey and more, diversifies itself from the film as it features at least 15 reimagined versions of well-known songs. While some may not have been fans of the musical additions, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw noted it “gives it structure and flavor” the first film didn’t have.

Before “Joker: Folie á Deux” hits theaters on Oct. 4, take a peek at what film critics have to say about it, below:

The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw said “Joker: Folie á Deux” was as “tedious” as the first film, but said its opening was “sensational.”

“It ends up as strident,...

The critics have spoken with their early reviews of the new sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Ahead of the movie's wide release, the film has received its debut score on Rotten Tomatoes, and it's currently pretty close to the original movie.

Based on 40 reviews jafter its Venice Film Festival premiere, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice currently has a score of 78% on the Tomatometer. The current score is just four points shy of matching the original number that's held by Beetlejuice at 82%. The Beetlejuice Beetlejuice score is very likely to fluctuate as reviews continue to come in, but if the sequels garners more positive reviews, it could even surpass the original movie's number. Because Beetlejuice Beetlejuice hasn't had its wide release just yet, there's not an audience score for the film, though the original matches the same rating on the Tomatometer, also sitting at 82%.

Related 'I Loved Her': Monica Bellucci Opens Up on Playing the Antagonist...

“Babygirl” is the latest film to premiere at the Venice Film Festival and launch its star into the awards conversation. The erotic thriller by Dutch director Halina Reijn (who previously helmed the 2022 horror comedy “Bodies Bodies Bodies”) was unveiled on August 30. It stars Nicole Kidman as a CEO who has an affair with a much younger intern (Harris Dickinson), and the reviews from the fest so far have been excellent.

Based on the first 15 reviews counted on MetaCritic, the film has a rating of 82 out of 100, indicating “universal acclaim.” Almost all of those reviews (14 out of 15) are categorized as positive. One review is mixed, but none yet are outright negative. Over on Rotten Tomatoes, where reviews are classified as simply positive or negative, the film is rated 85% fresh based on its first 13 reviews, only two of which give the movie a poor assessment.

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It was just announced that Pablo Larrain‘s biopic “Maria,” about opera legend Maria Callas (played by Angelina Jolie), was acquired by Netflix for distribution, but it has now screened for journalists. It had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 29. How good is it, though? The early reviews are pouring in from the Italian fest.

Based on the first 15 reviews counted by MetaCritic so far, the film has a “generally favorable” rating of 63. Eight of those reviews are classified as positive, while seven are somewhat mixed, though none are outright negative. But on Rotten Tomatoes, which considers reviews only as positive or negative, the film is 87% fresh based on 15 reviews, which means only two of them give the film a thumbs down. That disparity between scores suggests that most reviewers like the film, but some of those thumbs-up ratings might be a little ambivalent.

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the latest in a long line of legacy sequels to attempt to recapture magic from more than three decades ago, and the first reviews of Tim Burtons return to the afterlife seem to suggest he has managed to pull it off. With the manic energy of Michael Keaton, the support of franchise returnees Winona Ryder and Catherine OHara, and a roster of capable newcomers including Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Justin Theroux, and Monica Bellucci, say his name three times because the Ghost with the Most is a long way from being toast.

The Venice Film Festival played host to the world premiere of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and as reviews from the event began to trickle onto Rotten Tomatoes, it became clear that this movie is everything many fans have been asking for since 1988 introduced the world to its one and only bio-exorcist. Now, as unlikely as it seemed...

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ has officially premiered, and if you managed to score an early-screening ticket, you’ve likely seen overwhelmingly positive social media reactions. We’ve shared fan reactions online, and it’s been difficult to find any negative comments about the movie.

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ is being hailed as the savior of the MCU and is expected to be Disney’s biggest-earning movie this summer, potentially saving the box office as well.

Now that the review embargo has lifted, the critics’ scores present a different picture. While the reviews aren’t mostly bad, the positive feedback isn’t as overwhelming as expected.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie holds an 80% rating, marking it as “Fresh” based on 140 reviews. However, on Metacritic, it currently has a “mediocre” score of 54.

The majority of ratings are still positive, but some reviews offer a less favorable perspective. Let’s take a look at some...

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ has officially premiered, if you managed to score an early-screening ticket and so far the social media reactions to the movie have been amazing. We’ve already delivered you fan reactions online, and it’s been a struggle to find just about anything negative said about the movie.

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ is being hailed as MCU savior, it’s certainly being hailed as box office savior considering that it’s expected to be Disney’s biggest earning movie this summer.

But now that the review embargo has been lifted for the movie, the critics’ score painted and different type of picture. It’s not that the reviews are mostly bad, it’s just that we kind of expected more positive reviews.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie currently sits at 80 % marking the movie “Fresh” based on 140 reviews. On Metacritic however, the movie currently sits at “mediocre” 54 score.

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Twisters currently registers 80% on the Tomatometer based on 40 reviews. Critics are torn when it comes to Glen Powells new film, but Twisters does have a much stronger Rotten Tomatoes score than that of its predecessor. Twisters opens in theaters on July 19.

As Ricky Bobby once said, Hang on, Baby Jesus this is gonna get bumpy. The good news is that Twisters 80% Rotten Tomatoes score far surpasses the rating received by the original film, 1996'sTwister. Glen Powells Tornado Wrangler, aka Tyler Owens, is ready to chase thunderstorms and dodge debris on the big screen, and in a few short days, he'll get his chance as Twisters storms into theaters on Friday. But its not all good news for the latest big-screen effort from Warner Bros.

The reviews of the new film are a mixture of stormy and sunny critiques. And, at the time of this writing, those reviews have given Twisters...

Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick is one of the best movies to have been released recently and watching it in theatres was one hell of an experience. Both adrenaline and emotions were at an all-time high and we were on the edge of our seats for half the film. Remember when Maverick and Goose died but Glen Powell’s Hangman swooped in to save the day? We all collectively released a breath we didn’t know we were holding in. Basically, the film was a 10/10 experience.

Tom Cruise in a still from Top Gun: Maverick | Paramount Pictures

After Maverick, Glen Powell seems to have become Hollywood’s favorite as his career is soaring through the skies. He will soon be seen in Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters which is releasing in just a few days. While the trailer was quite good, fans initially believed the disaster film would be nothing extraordinary.

Matthew Vaughn is a savvy filmmaker who should know his films, particularly when they go sailing over the top narratively and tonally — which describes pretty much all of them save for his 2004 debut directorial effort, "Layer Cake" and the open-hearted whimsy of "Stardust" — tend to divide critics. You either go with the rousingly ultraviolent superhero satire of "Kick-Ass," or you rage against its vile excesses, chief among them being the transformation of an 11-year-old into a gun-wielding, slicing-and-dicing whirlwind of death known as Hit Girl. He specializes in juvenile subversion, but if you can get past the giddy excess of his films, they occasionally contain a surprising degree of thematic depth.

Vaughn's 2024 flop "Argylle" was not, on any level, a thoughtful film. It's a star-studded stew of a spy-comedy romp that's meant as a one-and-done spinoff from the director's largely successful "Kingsman" franchise. On the surface, given its colorful assortment of celebrities,...

Kevin Costner’s upcoming film and his passion project, Horizon: An American Saga enjoyed a promising debut at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. The audience’s enthusiastic response, including a seven-minute standing ovation, moved the director to tears, as he thanked the audience and promised a similar epic journey with the upcoming three sequels of the film series.

Kevin Costner in Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 | Credit: Warner Brothers

However, the same response is not reflected in the film’s critical reception, as the epic western saga opened to a disappointing 30% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes with critics sharing their mixed reaction to Costner’s passion project, for which the actor has risked it all.

Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga Opens to Disappointing Ratings

The four-part Horizon: An American Saga is another addition to Kevin Costner’s venture into the Western genre, following hits like Open Range, Dances With Wolves,...

The latest Yorgos Lanthimos / Emma Stone team-up, a film called Kinds of Kindness (previously known as And), is set to reach theatres on June 21st – but first, it’s having its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, which is now underway. The first reviews of Kinds of Kindness are now arriving online, and they’re describing this 165 minute “triptych fable” as dark, bizarre, insidious, intriguing, brilliant, bonkers, disturbing, puzzling, funny, surreal, creepy, mind-bending, twisted, and innovative. We have rounded up some of them below led by one from our own Eric Walkuski!

Our man @ericwalkuski just caught #KindsofKindness: Yorgos Lanthimos' Kinds of Kindness defies easy description; it's a trilogy of morbid tales that will beguile some, repel others. Uneven as a whole, the film still has enough shock value and absurd dark humor to keep you on your…

— JoBlo.com (@joblocom) May 17, 2024

Vulture‘s Bilge Ebiri says, Lanthimos can “reclaim his...

Screen International can reveal the critics participating in this year’s jury grid at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).

Joining Screen’s reviewing team will be critics from 11 international outlets to give their verdict on the 22 films in Competition this year for the Palme d’Or.

This year’s critics are all returners to the jury grid with the exception of Nt Binh who replaces Michel Ciment for France’s Positif. Ciment passed away in November last year at 85 and was a long-time contributor to the jury grid.

The selection also includes Justin Chang for The New Yorker who...

Challengers registers 96% on the Tomatometer against 56 reviews, at the time of this writing. Critics rave about the psychosexual passion and tension in the film, praising the performances and experimental direction. The movie is described as pleasurable, seductive and bristling with sexual tension, earning it high praise and anticipation for its release.

Game, set... match! Zendaya’s steamy sports drama Challengers serves up an ace for the actress as the film eyes its late April release. But critics are already raving about the sports romance, which is directed by Call Me by Your Name’s visionary filmmaker, Luca Guadagnino. And, at the time of this writing, Challengers boasts a nearly perfect score on the Tomatometer, registering 96% on Rotten Tomatoes against 56 reviews. Maureen Lee Lenker of EW declares the movie a "grand slam of psychosexual passion and tension" in Entertainment Weekly's review. Lenker also writes:

Anchored by three arresting performances and playfully experimental direction,...

Ladies and gentlemen, blobfishes and goblin sharks, put your fins together for the long-awaited return of Arthur Curry, aka Aquaman, aka the King of Atlantis. The sea-dwelling superhero played by Jason Momoa has been away from the big screen for five years (aside from a post-credits cameo in "The Flash"), but this week he returns in "Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom." After three DC Comics-based box office bombs in a row this year, Warner Bros. is hoping to score a win with Aquaman's second solo outing -- but the signs so far aren't positive.

Between rumors of behind-the-scenes turmoil and a review embargo lifting just a few hours before preview showings begin in North America, some fans feared that "Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom" might stink worse than a fish market. Based on the first wave of reviews, it seems those fears were justified.

/Film's own review is one...

Critics have issues with Zack Snyder's approach to the space opera in the disappointing Rebel Moon - Part One, calling it derivative and lacking in compelling characters. Some reviewers highlight the passion and visuals in Rebel Moon, but feel that the movie is overwhelmed by its own self-importance and lacks a coherent plot. Overall, Rebel Moon - Part One receives low ratings and is seen as a stale retread of better material, leaving critics underwhelmed and disappointed.

The reviews for director Zack Snyder’s original, big-budget, sweeping Netflix space epic Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire are now. And, sadly, things are not looking good. Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire has debuted at just 23% on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, with many critics taking aim at Snyder’s disappointing approach to the space opera.

While MovieWeb’s own Julian Roman found...

Timothée Chalamet's performance in Wonka is praised as his best, with his singing and dancing adding to the movie's magical and enchanting atmosphere. Critics describe Wonka as a spectacular, imaginative, and sweet-natured film that brings just the right amount of sweetness to the story of the master chocolatier's early years. While some had issues with the plot and the portrayal of Willy Wonka, Wonka is still seen as a buoyantly cheerful film with fun musical numbers and an excellent supporting cast.

The reviews for the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel Wonka are now. So, is the movie from Paddington director Paul King a new holiday favorite? Or does all the singing and dancing from star Timothée Chalamet far too sweet to satisfy? Well, according to the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, Wonka is a delicious cinematic treat, with the movie now sitting at a promising 81%. Now, let’s...

Warner Bros might finally be learning to undelete films following its Coyote Vs Acme debacle: now it should revisit its disastrous cull of Batgirl and Scoob! 2.

It’s been a difficult week for Warner Bros Discovery, in a year that’s not been shy of them. Not that filmmakers and film fans are offering much sympathy for the company, which is in danger of making a habit of canning completed films.

The story so far.

Following its 2022 decision to scrap both Batgirl and Scoob! 2: The Holiday Haunt, a pair of pretty much completed movies that collectively had cost over $120m to make, it threw the anvil last week on Coyote Vs Acme.

As film critic Robbie Collin wrote on whatever Twitter’s called now, “Why would anyone work for a studio that makes a habit of this?”

And that’s the problem. Doing it once? A nasty one-off. Twice?...

Saltburn, the upcoming psychological thriller directed by Emerald Fennell, promises an eerie and sensorial tale of infatuation and debauchery. The film features an all-star cast, including Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, and Rosamund Pike, and has received praise from some critics for its fearless and badly behaved nature. However, Saltburn has also faced some criticism, with some reviewers finding it lacking in original ideas and nothing new to say.

The latest trailer for Saltburn invites you to come inside. Get lost. Never leave. The upcoming psychological thriller has been helmed by filmmaker Emerald Fennell of Promising Young Woman fame, and promises to be an eerie, sensorial tale of infatuation and debauchery. You can check out the newly released trailer for Saltburn below courtesy of MGM:

As well as the new trailer, you can also read the official synopsis for Saltburn below:

“Academy Award winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman...

“Coup de Chance” bowed at the 2023 Venice Film Festival on Monday, September 4. Written and directed by Woody Allen, it’s the filmmaker’s 50th feature and the first shot entirely in the French language with English subtitles. The 87-year-old Allen was controversially on hand to attend the screening in person, drawing a small group of protestors on site due to longstanding but never substantiated child sexual abuse allegations made by his daughter Dylan Farrow. The audience in attendance at the world premiere warmly embraced the feature and its writer-director with a reported three-minute ovation upon its conclusion.

Premiering out of competition at the festival, the film was shot in Paris and features an all-French cast. A twisty tale of murder, “Coup de Chance” stars Lou de Laage and Melvil Poupaud as Fanny and Jean, described as “an ideal couple who have everything. Fulfilled in their professional life, they live in...

David Fincher's neo-noir psychological action thriller, The Killer, receives high praise and a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics commend Fincher's vision, stylish visuals, and Michael Fassbender's performance in the film. Some reviewers find The Killer to be surface-level in style and lacking deeper impact, while others appreciate its daring and resolve.

Fight Club and Gone Girl director David Fincher returns with the neo-noir psychological action thriller, The Killer, which has now premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. And the first reactions have heaped praise on Fincher’s vision for The Killer, with the movie debuting at a hugely promising 90% on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. You can check out some of the first reactions below.

The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw scored The Killer a perfect 5/5, calling Fincher the perfect filmmaker to bring this dark, violent tale to life.

“This is a thriller of pure...

Director David Fincher debuted his first film in three years Sunday at the Venice Film Festival and the results are rapturous, if a bit muted.

“The Killer” tells the story of a hitman (Michael Fassbender) dealing with a botched job. As TheWrap’s Ben Croll said in his review, “The Killer” is “like a sideways follow-up to ‘The Social Network’ than anything else.” That cold formalism is being pointed out in several top critics reviews, with Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri saying, “David Fincher’s The Killer seems to be about its own pointlessness.”

Croll explained in his review that “For all the wit and satirical shadings, “The Killer” gets down to business with ruthless efficiency. Like new installments in an ongoing series, the film is split into chapters, each set in a new locale, each named for a new target, and each playing up a slightly different set of skills.

“Maestro” bowed at the 2023 Venice Film Festival on Saturday, September 2. The film, which tells the story of famed composer Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and his decades-long relationship with Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan), recently sparked debate over Cooper’s use of a prosthetic nose to portray the Jewish music legend. But what did journalists think when they finally got to see the whole film?

The film already has a MetaCritic score of 82 based on 15 reviews that have come out of the fest as of this writing — 14 of them positive and one of them classified as mixed, but none outright negative. Over on Rotten Tomatoes the film rates 95% fresh based on 20 reviews, which means only one review there was classified as negative.

Stephanie Zacharek (Time) says the film, which Cooper also directed, is “superb and deeply felt … This is a complex and sophisticated picture, the kind of grown-up love story we see all too rarely these days,...

The first reviews are in from Thursday night’s Venice Film Festival world premiere of the Michael Mann-directed major Oscar contender “Ferrari,” the action-packed Neon study of the Italian racer and sports car entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari starring Adam Driver as Ferrari, Penelope Cruz as his wife Laura and Shailene Woodley as his mistress Lina Lardi. It focuses on three pivotal months in the life of Ferrari back in 1957, casting its focus on that year’s grueling Mille Miglia endurance race and the love triangle between Enzo and his women. While the early critiques are mixed with some lukewarm ones, the majority are uniformly positive and include a few outright raves.

Here is a sampling:

Owen Gleiberman of Variety raves, “In Michael Mann’s heady, intricately dark, raptly absorbing ‘Ferrari,’ it isn’t just the action that’s fraught with thrilling danger. Every moment of the drama moves with a sense of high-stakes dread,...

Now it has become “Oppenheimer,” the destroyer of doubts.

On Tuesday, Christopher Nolan’s drama debuted in Paris, meaning the lid has been officially raised on one of the year’s most-anticipated projects. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the early response from those critics and journalists who have seen “Oppenheimer” is effusive.

“Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ is truly a spectacular achievement, in its truthful, concise adaptation, inventive storytelling and nuanced performances from Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, and the many, many others involved —- some just for a scene,” Lindsay Bahr from the Associated Press wrote on Twitter. “It’s hard to talk about something as dense as this in something as silly as a tweet or thread but ‘Oppenheimer’ really is a serious, philosophical, adult drama that’s as tense and exciting as ‘Dunkirk.’ And the big moment – That Moment – is awe-inspiring.”

Christopher Nolan’s #Oppenheimer is truly a spectacular achievement,...

It seems that those who are going to enjoy a double feature of Barbie and Oppenheimer will not be disappointed. After the positive first reactions to Greta Gerwig's film, the new Christopher Nolan’s project also surprises with its first comments and is ready to surprise the audience with a new masterpiece from the acclaimed director.

Based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the movie focuses on the life of one of those responsible for creating the atomic bomb and, therefore, one of the men behind some of the most significant events in the history of the last century.

Oppenheimer includes an amazing cast lead by Cillian Murphy as the famous scientist, Emily Blunt as his wife, and Tom Conti as Albert Einstein. They are joined by Benny Safdie, Matt Damon, Josh Peck, Kenneth Branagh, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Rami Malek,...

“Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biography of Robert J. Oppenheimer (played by Nolan regular Cillian Murphy), one of the architects of the nuclear bomb, is nearly here and ahead of its July 21 release date the social embargo has been lifted and the first thoughts are coming through. (The movie just had its world premiere in Paris.)

Bilge Ebiri, critic for New York Magazine and Vulture (and perhaps our greatest living film writer), said the film was “incredible.” “A relentlessly paced, insanely detailed, intricate historical drama that builds and builds and builds until Nolan brings the hammer down in the most astonishing, shattering way,” Ebiri said on Twitter.

Oppenheimer is…incredible. The word that keeps coming to mind is "fearsome." A relentlessly paced, insanely detailed, intricate historical drama that builds and builds and builds until Nolan brings the hammer down in the most astonishing, shattering way.

— Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) July 11, 2023

Lindsey Bahr,...

The beloved animation studio Pixar has revealed a new look at their upcoming rom-com drama, Elemental, courtesy of a stunning 4Dx poster. This latest look at Elemental puts main characters Ember and Wade at its center, with the pair attempting to navigate their way around Element City, a metropolis inhabited by personifications of the four main elements, fire, water, earth, and air.

4Dx is arguably the best way to see Elemental, considering it gets viewers to viscerally experience the actual elements themselves. You can check out the new Elemental 4Dx poster below and learn more about the film and the format.

Elemental is all set to be led by Leah Lewis as Ember Lumen and Mamoudou Athie as Wade Ripple, with the duo of opposing elements growing closer as the story progresses as they slowly discover how much they actually have in common.

The rest of the cast behind Elemental...

The first reviews for Pixar's Elemental have arrived from the Cannes International Film Festival. Directed by Peter Sohn and written by John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, and Brenda Hsueh, the movie stars Mamoudou Athie and Leah Lewis as Wade Ripple and Ember Lumen, respectively. Both characters are made from completely different elements, but slowly realize throughout the movie how much they have in common while living in a world where all elements live together.

Critics who attended Elemental's first screening at Cannes have now begun to share their thoughts on Pixar's latest summer offering. While some have praised the movie as one of Pixar's best in recent memory, others were left with mixed feelings about the end result, feeling that its beautiful visuals don't make up for its surface-level exploration of its themes. Check out what critics are saying below:

James Mottram, TotalFilm (via GamesRadar)

Vocally, Athie is a comic...

Aki Kaurismaki’s latest is the new leader on the grid with a 3.2 average.

Aki Kaurismaki’s Fallen Leaves has snatched the top spot on the Cannes jury grid with an average score of 3.2.

The tragicomedy scored four fours (excellent) from Meduza’s Anton Dolin; Postif’s Michel Ciment; Time Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek; and Roberebert.com’s Ben Kenigsberg. Kaurismäki’s film received a further six threes (good) and two twos (average).

Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.

Hailing from Finland, Fallen Leaves centres around a shop assistant and alcoholic sandblaster who met one night in Helsinki.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s ’About Dry Grasses’ and ’The Zone Of Interest’ both scored 2.8.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone Of Interest both land on Screen’s 2023 Cannes jury grid with 2.8, joining Wang Bing’s Youth (Spring) in first place.

About Dry Grasses scored the highest mark of four (excellent) from The Telegraph’s Robbie Collin, Postif’s Michel Ciment and filfan.com’s Ahmed Shawky. It also received six threes (good) and two twos (average), with Le Monde’s Clarisse Fabre giving the film one.

Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny seemed to have a triumphant premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, with a six minute standing ovation and some positive first reviews on the night. However, as the first Rotten Tomatoes scores rolled in, it painted a much more mixed response to Harrison Ford’s final adventure as the aging Indy. While it is still early days, the consensus currently stands firmly in “rotten” territory with only half of the first wave of reviews having anything positive to say about the film.

Harrison Ford has seen many things during his four movies as Indiana Jones, and his fifth and final adventure is set to be no different with Nazis, time-travel and plenty of unbelievable stunts bringing the saga of Dr. Jones to a close. However, it seems that there are many who don’t feel that the James Mangold-directed movie...

Documentary about rural Chinese people who move to work in a textile factory is currently on a 2.7 average.

Wang Bing’s documentary Youth (Spring) took the early lead on Screen’s 2023 Cannes jury grid, with a 2.7 average score.

A 212-minute chronicle of the lives of Chinese people who come from rural areas to work in a textile factory near Shanghai, it scored seven threes (good) from our critics, with one four (excellent) from Le Monde’s Clarisse Fabre. Scores of two (average) from The Telegraph’s Robbie Collin and Tim Robey, and Positif’s Michel Ciment, and a one (poor) from filfan.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday night. At the glitzy Palais screening, director James Mangold and stars Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Boyd Holbrook and Ethann Isidore enjoyed a warm five-minute standing ovation from the crowd. But it was Indy himself, Harrison Ford, who was the center of attention, with the actor visibly moved to tears by the reception.

Not soon after the premiere, the first reviews of the film, which hits theaters on June 30, came trickling in. As of late Thursday, the early critical reaction to the fifth film in the much-loved Indiana Jones franchise has been decidedly mixed.

A common theme among the early reviews is that the film is better than Indy’s last outing, the rather polarizing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull from 2008, but not much better. Many reviewers took issue with digitally de-aging...

Critics this year include LA Times’ Justin Chang, Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus, and Positif’s Michel Ciment.

Screen International has revealed its critics for the jury grid that will run throughout the 2023 Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27).

Joining Screen’s reviewing team will be critics from 11 international outlets to give their verdict on the 21 films in Competition this year for the Palme d’Or.

The results will be published in Screen’s Cannes daily magazines and for the first time the grid will also be updated live on screendaily.com.

Egyptian critic Ahmed Shawky joins the Screen jury critics...

Ari Aster’s first two films, 2018’s “Hereditary” and 2019’s “Midsommar,” cultivated the young director enough cachet for A24 to hand him a blank check for “Beau is Afraid,” his “Jewish ‘Lord of the Rings’” about the psychological horror of visiting your mother. The three-hour horror-comedy epic is the indie studio’s most expensive movie to date. Starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix as the stunted and anxiety-ridden Beau of the title, the movie defies easy categorization and is, expectedly, inspiring awe and disgust in nearly equal measure – often within individual viewers.

Beau lives in an urban hellscape that approximates what “New York City looked like in the mind of Travis Bickle and Bernhard Goetz” and is in a persistent state of waiting for the other shoe to drop. When it finally does, it’s a chandelier on top of his mother’s head (it wouldn’t be an Aster film...

It’ll have been less than a month since the 95th Academy Awards when Ben Affleck’s “Air” hits theaters, but strong reviews suggest the time to begin predicting next year’s Oscars is already here.

Matt Damon heads the ‘80s-set workplace dramedy’s stellar ensemble as Sonny Vaccaro, a maverick talent scout for an apparel company that once celebrated unconventional thinking but, after going public, has increasingly frozen him out, focusing more on balance sheets than upending the status quo. Basketball players, Sonny is told over and over again, would much rather wear Converse and Adidas than Nike. Why doesn’t the company, based in Beaverton, Or, have offices on the east coast? What’s the use in a shoe that’s only good for a single activity? You can wear a running shoe for anything, even a trip to the grocery store. And what the hell is a Nike,...

“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” opened February 17 and is the 31st film in the sprawling Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as the third in the “Ant-Man” franchise. But where does it rank on the all-time list of MCU films based on its Rotten Tomatoes score? Check out the gallery above to see the complete list of 31 movies and how critics rated all of them.

As of this writing “Quantumania” has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 48 based on 236 reviews that have been counted thus far: 114 of them are classified as positive, while 122 are negative. Things are not too different over on MetaCritic, which is a more nuanced scale than the simple fresh/rotten pronouncements of the Tomatometer. The MetaCritic score stands at 49 based on 55 reviews counted: 17 are positive, 30 are mixed, and eight are outright negative.

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“Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical” hit Netflix on December 25 to rave reviews. The musical fantasy starring Oscar winner Emma Thompson as Miss Agatha Trunchbull and Alisha Weir as the title character is based on the Broadway musical of the same name. The film is directed by Matthew Warchus with a script by Dennis Kelly. Warchus and Kelly brought the stage musical to Broadway in 2011 based on the 1988 novel by Roald Dahl.

This adaptation of their Tony and Oliver award-winning musical tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results. The film currently holds a freshness rating of 92 on Rotten Tomatoes with the critics consensus reading, “Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical brings the classic story back to the screen with a delightful Emma Thompson, dazzling dancing, and a suitably irascible take on the source material.

Adam Sandler recently opened up about the impact of reading negative reviews of his movies early in his career. Sandler said that he and his Billy Madison co-writer “read the first [review of the film] and we were like, ‘Oh my God, what happened? They hate us.’” Some of Sandler’s movies have been rightly praised, like Uncut Gems and Punch-Drunk Love, but critics often give his movies a harsh write-up as a knee-jerk reaction based on his involvement alone.

A few films from the Sandler oeuvre have been panned by critics when they deserved to be acclaimed, like his heartwarming father-son story Big Daddy and his infectiously sweet romcom 50 First Dates.

Mr. Deeds (2002)

Sandler’s Mr. Deeds reboot was nominated for three Razzies: Worst Actor for Sandler, Worst Actress for Winona Ryder, and Worst Remake or Sequel for the movie. This affable comedy about an everyman inheriting a fortune and using it...

The trailer for Universal Pictures and Nintendo’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” has debuted, bringing with it a first listen of Chris Pratt’s Mario voice. The actor told Variety earlier this year that he “worked really closely with the directors” to craft the perfect Mario voice, adding, “[We tried] out a few things and landed on something that I’m really proud of.”

So what does Pratt’s Mario voice sound like? He only gets two brief lines of dialogue in the trailer, but it was enough to send social media into a craze with reactions. Many users found Pratt’s Mario voice too similar to Pratt’s own speaking voice, which led to confusion as the actor previously touted the voice as “unlike anything” fans had heard before.

“It’s an animated voiceover narrative,” Pratt added to Variety about the role. “It’s not a live-action movie. I’m...

Belle, the latest anime sensation from Oscar-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda will be released on DVD, Blu-ray, as well as a special feature-packed 4K Uhd Blu-ray Collector’s Edition that includes the film’s beloved soundtrack on 27th June. To celebrate, we are giving away a Blu-ray!

An original story inspired by the realisation that his own children will grow up in an increasingly online age, Hosoda’s Belle is the story of Suzu, a country girl who becomes a music sensation in the virtual world of “U” with the mesmerising avatar Belle. When her fame attracts the attention of a fearsome yet mysterious user known only as “Dragon”, Suzu will discover where the line between the online and offline self really lies.

Premiering to a historic 14-minute standing ovation at the 74th Cannes Film Festival, Belle released in cinemas across the UK and Ireland in February to critical acclaim, with...

Ever since Steven Spielberg’s magical adaptation of “West Side Story” first started screening last November, Mike Faist has slowly been gaining momentum for his charismatic, scene-stealing turn as Jets leader Riff. Critics were quick to single out Faist’s performance in the film’s already rave reviews. “A twitchy, wiry delight” hailed Robbie Collin of The Telegraph. “His dancing has a caffeinated, angular beauty”, wrote Stephanie Zacharek of Time Magazine. David Sims of The Atlantic concluded, “Faist’s sinewy, charged work as Riff is a real revelation”.

Critics groups quickly caught onto the buzz. Of the 20 regional circles that have chimed in since “West Side Story” started screening, Faist has received 10 nominations and nabbed a 3rd place prize at the National Society of Film Critics and a win at the Phoenix Critics Circle.

Despite a lack of wide visibility as well as screener issues inhibiting Faist’s momentum at...

The world premiere of “Belle”, the latest animated feature film from award-winning director Mamoru Hosoda, was met with cheers and a fourteen-minute standing ovation following its world premiere at the 74th Cannes Film Festival on Thursday July 15th – the seventh longest in the festival’s history. Critics responded with enthusiasm on Twitter following the premiere, with Phil de Semlyen calling it “a dazzling cyber fairy-tale”, and Robbie Collin adding that “there is usually one film per Cannes that emotionally bulldozes me, and this year Belle was it.”

Anime Limited, Europe’s premiere distributor for Japanese animation, will be releasing “Belle” in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and France.

“Belle”, the journey of a shy and self-conscious teenager finding herself through the avatar of a world famous virtual singer, is a film that reaches beyond borders both on and off the screen with a creative team showcasing the calibre of global talent in modern animation.