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Cannes Film Festival 2024: Movie Scorecard

Check out every movie that got enough reviews for a Tomatometer at the 2024 Cannes film fest, where marquees announced new films from George Miller (Furiosa), Francis Ford Coppola (Megalopolis), Coralie Fargeat (The Substance), Sean Baker (Anora, which would go on to win the Palme d’Or), Kevin Costner (Horizon: An American Saga), and Yorgos Lanthimos (Kinds of Kindness).

#1
#1
Adjusted Score: 119382%
Critics Consensus: Retroactively enriching Fury Road with greater emotional heft if not quite matching it in propulsive throttle, Furiosa is another glorious swerve in mastermind George Miller's breathless race towards cinematic Valhalla.
Synopsis: Snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, young Furiosa falls into the hands of a great biker horde led... [More]

#2
#2
Adjusted Score: 102634%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who... [More]

#3
Adjusted Score: 93835%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof's award-winning thriller, THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, centers on a family thrust into... [More]

#4

Caught by the Tides (2024)
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#4
Adjusted Score: 100671%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: An enduring but fragile love story shared by Qiao Qiao and Guao Bin, set in China, from the early 2000s... [More]

#5
#5
Adjusted Score: 101110%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral... [More]

#6
Adjusted Score: 94308%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT, a rambunctious extended family descends upon their small Long Island hometown for the holidays.... [More]

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#8

Ghost Trail (2024)
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#8
Adjusted Score: 79965%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Hamid is part of a secret group pursuing the Syrian regime’s fugitive leaders. His mission takes him to France, on... [More]

#9

The Hyperboreans (2024)
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#9
Adjusted Score: 65264%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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#10

Eephus (2024)
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#10
Adjusted Score: 94427%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England Sunday league teams... [More]

#11

An Unfinished Film (2024)
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#11
Adjusted Score: 65405%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: January 2020. A film crew reunites near Wuhan to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier, only... [More]

#12

The Invasion (2024)
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#12
Adjusted Score: 65484%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: 10 years after the release of his epic film "Maidan", Sergei Loznitsa resumes his Ukrainian chronicles by documenting the country's... [More]

#13

Le Royaume (2024)
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#13
Adjusted Score: 80003%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Corsica, 1995. It's Lesia's first summer as a teenager. One day a man bursts into her life and takes her... [More]

#14

Julie Keeps Quiet (2024)
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#14
Adjusted Score: 73050%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: As the star player at an elite tennis academy, Julie's life revolves around the game she loves. When her coach... [More]

#15

Everybody Loves Touda (2024)
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#15
Adjusted Score: 58310%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Touda only dreams of one thing: being a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan performer empowered by the lyrics of the fierce... [More]

#16
Adjusted Score: 50909%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In a windy Somali village, a newly assembled family must navigate between their different aspirations and the complex world surrounding... [More]

#17

Viet and Nam (2024)
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#17
Adjusted Score: 94542%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In the depths of the underground coal mines, where danger awaits and darkness prevails, Nam and Việt, both young miners,... [More]

#18

Blue Sun Palace (2024)
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#18
Adjusted Score: 50893%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: An unexpected bond forms between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens when tragedy strikes. Far from home, their... [More]

#19
#19
Adjusted Score: 65464%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) -- 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of... [More]

#20

Faye (2024)
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#20
Adjusted Score: 92471%
Critics Consensus: An unapologetic celebration of a hallowed actor renowned for being both brilliant and tempestuous, Faye is a must-watch for fans of the incomparable Dunaway.
Synopsis: In FAYE, the first feature documentary of the Hollywood legend, Academy Award®-winning actress Faye Dunaway candidly discusses the triumphs and... [More]

#21

Anora (2024)
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#21
Adjusted Score: 101308%
Critics Consensus: Another marvelous chronicle of America's strivers by writer-director Sean Baker given some extra pizzazz by Mikey Madison's brassy performance, Anora is a romantic drama on the bleeding edge.
Synopsis: Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries... [More]

#22

Good One (2024)
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#22
Adjusted Score: 103686%
Critics Consensus: A beautifully acted depiction of being caught between a rock and a hard place, Good One confronts difficult emotions and yields a striking feature debut for writer-director India Donaldson.
Synopsis: In India Donaldson's insightful, piercing debut, 17-year-old Sam (Lily Collias) embarks on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with... [More]

#23
#23
Adjusted Score: 95527%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art... [More]

#24

The Substance (2024)
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#24
Adjusted Score: 107675%
Critics Consensus: Audaciously gross, wickedly clever, and possibly Demi Moore's finest hour, The Substance is a gasp-inducing feat from writer-director Coralie Fargeat.
Synopsis: Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You, only better in every way. You should try this... [More]

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#25

#26
#26
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: "Jim Henson Idea Man" takes us into the mind of this singular creative visionary, from his early years puppeteering on... [More]

#27

Holy Cow (2024)
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#27
Adjusted Score: 80332%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Totone, 18 years old, spends most of his time drinking beers and partying in the Jura region with his group... [More]

#28

This Life of Mine (2024)
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#28
Adjusted Score: 58286%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Barberie Bichette, known to her biggest despair as Barbie, may have been beautiful, a good mother, a reliable colleague, a... [More]

#29
#29
Adjusted Score: 91109%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne), a young factory worker, is struggling to survive in post WWI Copenhagen. When she finds herself... [More]

#30

Block Pass (2024)
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#30
Adjusted Score: 51321%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Willy and Jojo are childhood friends who never leave each other's side. Training at the motocross track is their way... [More]

#31

The Surfer (2024)
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#31
Adjusted Score: 87672%
Critics Consensus: Nicolas Cage expertly rides the waves of toxic masculinity in this sand filled arena of torment.
Synopsis: ... [More]

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#33

Being Maria (2024)
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#33
Adjusted Score: 43839%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Maria is a young, struggling actress with promise. When an emerging Italian director casts her to headline a new film... [More]

#34

Emilia Pérez (2024)
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#34
Adjusted Score: 90435%
Critics Consensus: Karla Sofía Gascón is Emilia Perez in a swaggering musical crime thriller of genre-bending fascination that is also an unapologetically trans story.
Synopsis: From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through liberating song... [More]

#35

Rumours (2024)
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#35
Adjusted Score: 84110%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at... [More]

#36

Grand Tour (2024)
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#36
Adjusted Score: 86599%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she... [More]

#37

Kinds of Kindness (2024)
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#37
Adjusted Score: 89695%
Critics Consensus: A cold-hearted triptych brimming with caustic wit, Kinds of Kindness is Yorgos Lanthimos at his most misanthropic -- and bitingly funny.
Synopsis: KINDS OF KINDNESS is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own... [More]

#38

It's Not Me (2024)
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#38
Adjusted Score: 36385%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: For an exhibition, that in the end never took place, the Pompidou Museum asked the filmmaker to reply, in pictures,... [More]

#39

Wild Diamond (2024)
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#39
Adjusted Score: 81526%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Liane, 19 years old, daring and fiery, lives with her mother and little sister under the dusty sun of Fréjus... [More]

#40

Motel Destino (2024)
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#40
Adjusted Score: 65237%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The neon-hued Motel Destino is a roadside sex hotel under the burning blue skies of the coast of Northern Brazil,... [More]

#41

Bird (2024)
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#41
Adjusted Score: 76634%
Critics Consensus: Director Andrea Arnold strikes a coming-of-age chord through Nykiya Adams' moving performance, marrying fantasy and reality to the dizzying end.
Synopsis: 12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn't have... [More]

#42
Adjusted Score: 67090%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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#43
Adjusted Score: 68599%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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#44

Oh Canada (2024)
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#44
Adjusted Score: 67981%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A famed Canadian documentary filmmaker, gives a final interview to one of his former students to tell the whole truth... [More]

#45

The Damned (2024)
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#45
Adjusted Score: 71018%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Winter 1862. In the midst of the Civil War, the US Army sends a company of volunteer soldiers to the... [More]

#46

Locust (2024)
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#46
Adjusted Score: 29373%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: ... [More]

#47

The Shrouds (2024)
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#47
Adjusted Score: 72199%
Critics Consensus: Ruminating on the love within loss, The Shrouds is a personal and peculiar examination of grief by director David Cronenberg.
Synopsis: ... [More]

#48

Armand (2024)
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#48
Adjusted Score: 65235%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: One of the last days before the school holidays something happens between six year old Armand and Jon. The parents... [More]

#49

The Balconettes (2024)
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#49
Adjusted Score: 69164%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: As a heat wave brings a Marseille neighbourhood to the boil, three roommates gleefully meddle in the lives of their... [More]

#50
Adjusted Score: 43621%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Once upon a time there was a poor lumberjack and his wife who lived in a deep Polish forest. The... [More]

#51

Dog on Trial (2024)
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#51
Adjusted Score: 36127%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Avril, a young animal rights lawyer, is prepared to do whatever it takes to save her client, a canine repeat... [More]

#52

The Second Act (2024)
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#52
Adjusted Score: 65036%
Critics Consensus: Anarchic to a fault but made with enough pleasingly satiric flair, The Second Act is not Quentin Dupieux's best nor his worst.
Synopsis: ... [More]

#53

Megalopolis (2024)
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#53
Adjusted Score: 57214%
Critics Consensus: More of a creative manifesto than a cogent narrative feature, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is an overstuffed opus that's equal parts stimulating and slapdash.
Synopsis: MEGALOPOLIS is a Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict... [More]

#54

Marcello Mio (2024)
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#54
Adjusted Score: 50453%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: This is the story of a woman named Chiara. She is an actress, the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine... [More]

#55
Adjusted Score: 60265%
Critics Consensus: Kevin Costner doesn't lack for ambition as he sketches this frontier saga across the widest of canvases, but Horizon's first chapter proves too diffuse in scope for it to satisfy as a self-contained endeavor.
Synopsis: Families, friends and foes discover the lure of the Old West as the Civil War divides the country.... [More]

#56

Parthenope (2024)
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#56
Adjusted Score: 31891%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Parthenope, born in the sea of Naples in 1950, searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling... [More]