Best Movies at the Film Festival

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Best Movies at the Film Festival

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Killers of the Flower Moon stars Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio

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Updated: May 22, 2023

The 76th Cannes Film Festival is underway, running from May 16 through 27, and we’re tracking the best of the fest right here in our guide to the best (and worst) movies premiering in Cannes. Check back as we update this list with the latest from the French Riviera, including Harrison Ford returning for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Pixar animated film Elemental, Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City with (of course) an all-star cast, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in Todd Haynes’ May December, Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke in Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life, and much more. –Debbie Day

Here’s where the films stand so far:


Read also: The 2023 Summer Movie Scorecard

#1

Adjusted Score: 100912%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a… [More]

#2

Adjusted Score: 100718%

Critics Consensus: Dispassionately examining the ordinary existence of people complicit in horrific crimes, The Zone of Interest forces us to take a cold look at the mundanity behind an unforgivable brutality.

Synopsis: The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in… [More]

#3

Adjusted Score: 89268%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday – drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the… [More]

#4

Adjusted Score: -1%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Morán and Román are two bank employees that at some point in their lives question the routine life they carry… [More]

#5

Adjusted Score: 50962%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

#6

Adjusted Score: 38326%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

#7

Adjusted Score: 51072%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older… [More]

#8

Adjusted Score: 38018%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: The first amongst her friends to hit puberty, Zaffan, 12, discovers a terrifying secret about her body. Ostracized by her… [More]

#9

Adjusted Score: 57293%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Sandra, a German writer, lives with her husband Samuel and their visually-impaired son Daniel in a remote mountain chalet in… [More]

#10

Adjusted Score: -1%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. Longing for a home of their own, they have decided to live apart… [More]

#11

Adjusted Score: 96675%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Based on David Grann’s broadly lauded best-selling book, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts… [More]

#12

Adjusted Score: 93782%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, Gracie Atherton-Yu and her husband Joe (twenty-three years her junior)… [More]

#13

Adjusted Score: -1%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: The Sweet East is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States… [More]

#14

Adjusted Score: 57524%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

#15

Adjusted Score: -1%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

#16

Adjusted Score: -1%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Zhili, 150 km from Shanghai. In this city dedicated to textile manufacturing, young people come from all the rural regions… [More]

Starring:

#17

Adjusted Score: -1%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: In cold wintry Yanji, a city on China’s northern border, young urbanite Haofeng, visiting from Shanghai, feels lost and adrift…. [More]

#18

Adjusted Score: -1%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

#19

Adjusted Score: 69020%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: A man rides a horse across the desert that separates him from Bitter Creek. He comes to visit Sheriff Jake…. [More]

#20

Adjusted Score: 65274%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: The past collides with our precarious present in Steve McQueen’s bravura documentary Occupied City, informed by the book Atlas of… [More]

Starring:

#21

Adjusted Score: 44570%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

#22

Adjusted Score: 38196%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Khédidja works for a wealthy Parisian family who offered her to mind their children for a summer in Corsica. Bringing… [More]

#23

Adjusted Score: 52963%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Jeanne Vaubernier, a working-class woman determined to climb the social ladder, uses her charms to escape her impoverished condition. Her… [More]

#24

Adjusted Score: 50355%

Critics Consensus: Although there’s a nostalgic rush in seeing Harrison Ford back in action, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is a largely unnecessary franchise finale.

Synopsis: Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied… [More]

#25

Adjusted Score: 40795%

Critics Consensus: Although Hypnotic isn’t without glimmers of inspiration, the ultimate effect of this often clunky crime caper will be to leave you feeling rather sleepy.

Synopsis: Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole investigating a series… [More]

#26

Adjusted Score: 18903%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: In preparation for his dream of medical school, Ollie Cross, hits the streets driving an ambulance alongside Rutkovsky, a grizzled… [More]

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