From Cannes '24 — Dispatches, Reviews, and Notebook Pages from the Croisette.

The Festivals hub is our working critic's desk — the place where 38 international film festivals, 11 staff critics, and 14 years of editorial coverage meet a single reader with a watchlist to plan. Every festival page carries the same architecture: a marquee dispatch from the current edition, the running archive of reviews we've published, the dispatch notebooks our critics kept on the ground, and the festival-specific context that turns a screening into a story.

Festival programmers come here for the long reads they can pass to juries and acquisition teams. Independent distributors use it to track the critical reception of titles they've repped across the circuit. Cinephiles planning the next six months of serious viewing come for the watchlist that quietly forms when you read thirty reviews from one edition in a row.

We do not chase premieres for traffic. We sit through everything, take notes in the dark, and publish what we actually saw — at an average of 1,800 words per review, four times the industry standard.