The Top Movies of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival

      The 79th Cannes Film Festival has come to a close, with Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord winning the Palme d’Or (view all jury winners here). Our coverage will extend with more reviews this week, and well beyond as we provide updates on these selected films. We have asked our contributors on the ground to share their favorite films.

      Check out their selections below, noting that Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden and Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma received the most mentions. You can explore all our coverage here.

      Leonardo Goi (@LeonardoGoi)

      1. Double Freedom (Lisandro Alonso)

      2. Fatherland (Paweł Pawlikowski)

      3. All of a Sudden (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

      4. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun)

      5. Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude)

      6. The Samurai and the Prisoner (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

      7. Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev)

      8. Red Rocks (Bruno Dumont)

      9. La Perra (Dominga Sotomayor)

      10. Nagi Notes (Koji Fukada)

      Read Leonardo’s reviews here.

      Luke Hicks (@lou_hicks)

      1. All of a Sudden (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

      2. Fjord (Cristian Mungiu)

      3. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun)

      4. Fatherland (Paweł Pawlikowski)

      5. The Beloved (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)

      6. Paper Tiger (James Gray)

      7. The Man I Love (Ira Sachs)

      8. La Bola Negra (Los Javis)

      9. Moulin (László Nemes)

      10. Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev)

      Read Luke’s reviews here.

      Rory O’Connor (@RorySeanOC)

      1. Everytime (Sandra Wollner)

      2. Paper Tiger (James Gray)

      3. The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach)

      4. La Gradiva (Marine Atlan)

      5. Club Kid (Jordan Firstman)

      6. All of a Sudden (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

      7. Fjord (Cristian Mungiu)

      8. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun)

      9. Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude)

      10. The Meltdown (Manuela Martelli)

      Read Rory’s reviews here.

      Savina Petkova (@savinapetkova)

      1. The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach)

      2. All of a Sudden (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

      3. La Gradiva (Marine Atlan)

      4. Forever Your Maternal Animal (Valentina Maurel)

      5. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun)

      6. Tangles (Leah Nelson)

      7. I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning (Clio Barnard)

      8. The Man I Love (Ira Sachs)

      9. I’ll Be Gone in June (Katharina Rivilis)

      10. Butterfly Jam (Kantemir Balagov)

      Read Savina’s reviews here.

      Jan Tracz (@shakespearesfavoritecustomer)

      1. The Beloved (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)

      2. La Bola Negra (Los Javis)

      3. All of a Sudden (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

      4. Moulin (László Nemes)

      5. Viva Carmen (Sébastien Laudenbach)

      6. Flesh and Fuel (Pierre Le Gall)

      7. Bitter Christmas (Pedro Almodóvar)

      8. Fjord (Cristian Mungiu)

      9. A Man of His Time (Emmanuel Marre)

      10. Fatherland (Paweł Pawlikowski)

      Read Jan’s reviews here.

      Martin Tsai (@martintsai)

      1. Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude)

      2. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun)

      3. Hope (Na Hong-jin)

      4. Red Rocks (Bruno Dumont)

      5. The Samurai and the Prisoner (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

      6. The Beloved (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)

      7. Nagi Notes (Koji Fukada)

      8. The Man I Love (Ira Sachs)

      9. La Gradiva (Marine Atlan)

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