Party down: Guy Lodge and Adam Piron offer their reactions to Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez and Sean Baker’s Anora before sharing some personal festival highlights
Body and soul: critics Robert Daniels, Miriam Bale, and Mark Asch discuss recent festival premieres, including David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, Claire Simon's Elementary, and more
Bubble wrapped: this year's festival attempts to avoid the controversies rocking the outside world, providing a sealed-in microclimate for duds and indulgences like Quentin Dupieux's The Second Act and Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis
Fool’s errands: Kelli Weston and Jessica Kiang join to unpack Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness
Born to be wild: Bilge Ebiri and Jonathan Romney join to discuss early festival selections Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Girls With the Needle, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, and many more
Bonne projection: Beatrice Loayza and Isabel Stevens join to kick off our Cannes 2024 coverage, debating new films by Quentin Dupieux, Sophie Fillières, and Agathe Riedinger
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