Fatherland and Fjord towered above the rest on our 2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel — but how did the competition stack up across the other jury grids floating around the Croisette?
FINAL CRITICAL CHECK-IN BEFORE CANNES AWARDS
Updated as of this morning at 10:30 am (EST) for all 22 Palme competition tiles
IONCINEMA (5 point scale)
1) Fatherland 3.7
1) Fjord 3.7
1) Coward 3.7
4) Minotaur 3.5
5) A Man of His Time 3.4
5) The Man I Love 3.4
7) All of a Sudden 3.3...
SPECIAL FRIDAY UPDATE: CANNES AND THE CRITICS
With the awards now only hours away in France. MTFB is updating our window on the critical response there.
Additional titles have screened and continued adding of critics' responses puts us with 12 films we're including in our analysis of what's what at Cannes
Here's the rundown on each film from each critical accumulator...
Standing at the Cannes podium Saturday night to collect the Grand Prix for “Minotaur,” exiled Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev used his acceptance speech to issue a direct, personal plea to Vladimir Putin to bring the war to an end. Set in Russia in 2022, “Minotaur” follows Gleb (Dmitriy Mazurov), a successful company director whose carefully […]
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The Palme d’Or winner and the Best Director winners are 2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel top graded films according to our twenty international film critics.
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Cristian Mungiu claimed his second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night, as “Fjord” brought Neon its seventh consecutive top prize from the Croisette. The win extends a run for the U.S. distributor that has reshaped the modern Cannes record books. Neon arrived at the 79th edition with pre-festival deals already in […]