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Blaise (2026) — A Deranged Mirror of Modern Life | Cannes

★★★★★ Blaise doesn’t just satirize the world—it distorts it until it finally looks honest.” Jean-Paul Guigue and Dimitri Planchon’s Blaise […]

Released in 1976 and still censored in Japan decades later, the film exists in a strange cultural space: simultaneously treated

★★★☆☆ “There are no battlefields here, yet The Red Hangar unfolds with the moral urgency of a war film—its conflict

★★½☆☆ Again Again carries the foundation of something emotionally resonant and structurally ambitious, but never fully finds the balance necessary

★★½☆☆ While resurrecting beloved characters and revisiting an IP that once stood perfectly well on its own, The Devil Wears

★★☆☆☆ Mortal Kombat 2 is a blockbuster assembled with all the noise, scale, and recognizable iconography of a major studio

There are horror films that unsettle through atmosphere, horror films that terrify through violence, and horror films that rely on

★★★★½ David Lowery’s Mother Mary transforms the ghost story into something deeply intimate and emotionally corrosive. Rather than relying on

★★★★★ Mona Fastvold’s Discipline is a film that speaks in silence yet resonates with startling clarity. Through visual precision and

There’s a particular kind of defensiveness that emerges whenever an art-house film slips, however briefly, into the mainstream. It’s the