Cannes 2017 Tomatometer Scores
87%
Critics Consensus: Let the Sunshine In pairs a powerful performance from Juliette Binoche with a layered drama that presents director Claire Denis at her most assured.
Synopsis: Isabelle, a Parisian artist and divorced mother, is looking for love.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Philippe Katerine, Josiane Balasko
Directed By: Claire Denis
95%
Critics Consensus: Loveless uses its riveting portrait of a family in crisis to offer thought-provoking commentary on modern life in Russia -- and the world beyond its borders.
Synopsis: An estranged Russian couple going through a brutal divorce both have new partners and want to start over until their 12-year-old son disappears after witnessing... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Maryana Spivak, Alexey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasilyeva
Directed By: Andrey Zvyagintsev
82%
Critics Consensus: Lover for a Day offers an absorbing character study that's as well-acted and believable as it is beautifully filmed.
Synopsis: A woman returns home to discover her father is dating a woman who is the same age as her.
Starring: Éric Caravaca, Esther Garrel, Louise Chevillotte, Paul Toucang
Directed By: Philippe Garrel
98%
Critics Consensus: Subversive, gorgeously shot, and suitably visceral, Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts injects timely feminist themes into a neo-western grindhouse framework.
Synopsis: When a young widow is raped and her cattle are stolen, she fights back and kills several of her attackers. She embarks on a journey... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Marsha Timothy, Egy Fedly, Dea Panendra, Yoga Pratama
Directed By: Mouly Surya
92%
Critics Consensus: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) observes the family dynamic through writer-director Noah Baumbach's bittersweet lens and the impressive efforts of a remarkable cast.
Synopsis: The adult children of Harold Meyerowitz reunite in New York in preparation for their father's career retrospective.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson
Directed By: Noah Baumbach
71%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In 1958, a French member of a delegation to North Korea meets a nurse working for the Korean Red Cross.
Starring: Claude Lanzmann
Directed By: Claude Lanzmann
87%
Critics Consensus: Okja sees Bong Joon-ho continuing to create defiantly eclectic entertainment -- and still hitting more than enough of his narrative targets in the midst of a tricky tonal juggling act.
Synopsis: For 10 idyllic years, young Mija has been caretaker and constant companion to Okja - a massive animal and an even bigger friend - at... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Ahn Seo-hyun, Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Giancarlo Esposito
Directed By: Bong Joon Ho
63%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Two high-school nerds (Victoria Justice, Eden Sher) plan their revenge after falling victim to a popular student's humiliating prank.
Starring: Victoria Justice, Eden Sher, Ashley Rickards, Claudia Lee
Directed By: Peter Hutchings
86%
Critics Consensus: Patti Cake$ hits a number of predictable beats, but adds enough fresh elements -- not least Danielle MacDonald's potentially starmaking turn -- to make its underdog story work.
Synopsis: Fed up with life in her New Jersey hometown, Patricia Dombrowski, aka Patti Cake$, hopes to follow in the footsteps of her idol and hit... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Danielle Macdonald, Bridget Everett, Cathy Moriarty, Siddharth Dhananjay
Directed By: Geremy Jasper
92%
Critics Consensus: A Prayer Before Dawn is far from an easy watch, but this harrowing prison odyssey delivers rich rewards -- led by an outstanding central performance from Joe Cole.
Synopsis: The amazing true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand's most notorious prison. Thrown into a world of drugs and violence, he... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Joe Cole, Billy Moore, Pornchanok Mabklang, Panya Yimmumphai
Directed By: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
77%
Critics Consensus: The King pursues a wildly ambitious thesis through some fairly bumpy territory, but emerges as a provocative and insightful look at modern America.
Synopsis: Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki takes a musical road trip across the U.S. in Elvis Presley's 1963 Rolls-Royce during the 2016 presidential election, comparing Elvis's transition from... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Eugene Jarecki, Alec Baldwin, Chuck D, Ethan Hawke
Directed By: Eugene Jarecki
54%
Critics Consensus: Godard Mon Amour imagines a chapter from Jean-Luc Godard's life with no shortage of whimsy, but lacks its subject's essential inspiration.
Synopsis: During the making of one of his films, French film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 17-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and later marries her.
Starring: Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo, Micha Lescot
Directed By: Michel Hazanavicius
97%
Critics Consensus: The Rider's hard-hitting drama is only made more effective through writer-director Chloé Zhao's use of untrained actors to tell the movie's fact-based tale.
Synopsis: After a riding accident leaves him unable to compete on the rodeo circuit, a young cowboy searches for a new purpose.
Starring: Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Lane Scott
Directed By: Chloé Zhao
32%
Critics Consensus: Rodin falls prey to the most common pitfall of artist biopics: depicting creative work without ever really unlocking what it means or why it's important.
Synopsis: In 1880 Paris, 40 year-old sculptor Auguste Rodin finally receives his first state commission, "The Gates of Hell," which includes "The Kiss" and "The Thinker,"... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Izïa Higelin, Séverine Caneele, Bernard Verley
Directed By: Jacques Doillon
69%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Filmmakers examine the current migrant crisis.
Starring: Daisy Bevan, Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson
Directed By: Vanessa Redgrave
85%
Critics Consensus: The Square finds writer-director Ruben Östlund as ambitious as ever -- and delivering an unforgettably unusual work whose challenging themes pay thought-provoking dividends.
Synopsis: Disaster strikes when a curator hires a public relations team to build some buzz for his renowned Swedish museum.
Starring: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, Terry Notary
Directed By: Ruben Östlund
100%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhists through the portrait of the Burmese monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of an anti-Muslim movement in... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Barbet Schroeder
Directed By: Barbet Schroeder
99%
Critics Consensus: Equal parts breezily charming and poignantly powerful, Faces Places is a unique cross-generational portrait of life in rural France from the great Agnès Varda.
Synopsis: Director Agnès Varda and photographer and muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
Starring: Agnès Varda, JR
Directed By: Agnès Varda, JR
96%
Critics Consensus: Western earns the viewer's attention with an unpredictable, patiently told tale that evokes the spirit of the titular genre while adding its own unique touches.
Synopsis: When some German construction workers begin a challenging new job in the Bulgarian countryside, their sense of adventure is awakened, but so, too, are their... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov, Veneta Fragnova
Directed By: Valeska Grisebach
87%
Critics Consensus: Wind River lures viewers into a character-driven mystery with smart writing, a strong cast, and a skillfully rendered setting that delivers the bitter chill promised by its title.
Synopsis: Cory Lambert is a wildlife officer who finds the body of an 18-year-old woman on an American Indian reservation in snowy Wyoming. When the autopsy... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal
Directed By: Taylor Sheridan
68%
Critics Consensus: Wonderstruck's efforts to juggle timelines and tonal shifts aren't always smooth, but the end result still adds up to an emotional journey whose visual thrills live up to its title.
Synopsis: Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish that their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he's never known,... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore, Millicent Simmonds, Michelle Williams
Directed By: Todd Haynes
89%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: When young Antoine goes to a summer writing workshop, well-respected novelist Olivia is assigned to help him with his project. Antoine's provocative, aggressive behavior intrigues... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Warda Rammach, Issam Talbi
Directed By: Laurent Cantet
89%
Critics Consensus: Bracingly elevated by a typically committed lead performance from Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here confirms writer-director Lynne Ramsay as one of modern cinema's most unique -- and uncompromising -- voices.
Synopsis: A contract killer uncovers a conspiracy while trying to save a kidnapped teen from a life of prostitution.
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alessandro Nivola, Alex Manette
Directed By: Lynne Ramsay