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The 2026 Cannes Film Festival starts Tuesday, May 12th, running through May 24th. The Ebert team returns this year with coverage of all of the major films in review and video form. In this video dispatch, Scott Dummler interviews correspondent Ben Kenigsberg about the latest from Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Pawel Pawlikowski, and Chaz flashes back to…

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival starts Tuesday, May 12th, running through May 24th. The Ebert team returns this year with coverage of all of the major films in review and video form. In this video dispatch, Scott Dummler interviews correspondent Ben Kenigsberg about the latest from Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Pawel Pawlikowski, and Chaz flashes back to…

Boots Riley is one of the few American filmmakers who are most visibly invested in conversations about class, capitalism, and aesthetics in their works. He pushes each subject to the point of breaking in absurdist works whose visual ambition and thematic audacity can often feel as knowingly chaotic as our contemporary world. With “Sorry to…

Boots Riley is one of the few American filmmakers who are most visibly invested in conversations about class, capitalism, and aesthetics in their works. He pushes each subject to the point of breaking in absurdist works whose visual ambition and thematic audacity can often feel as knowingly chaotic as our contemporary world. With “Sorry to…

This year’s Ebert Fellows attended the True/False Film Festival, one of the most essential non-fiction cinema events of the year. Here are their reports: PAIGE TERNADO “To really make a film like this, you have to ignore every commercial model that we’re sold.” Filmmaker Patrick Bresnan, whose documentary “First They Came for My College” tells…

This year’s Ebert Fellows attended the True/False Film Festival, one of the most essential non-fiction cinema events of the year. Here are their reports: PAIGE TERNADO “To really make a film like this, you have to ignore every commercial model that we’re sold.” Filmmaker Patrick Bresnan, whose documentary “First They Came for My College” tells…

Maybe it’s a product of being a father of three myself, but I often find that my assignments at film festivals tend to be stories of teenagers. It could also be that the coming-of-age drama is a standard of the indie movement, no matter its country of origin. Three films from this year’s Cannes are…