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Cannes 2023 Movie Scorecard: Best Movies at the Film Festival
The 76th Cannes Film Festival is underway, running from May 16 through 27, and we’re tracking the best of the fest right here in our guide to the best (and worst) movies premiering in Cannes. Check back as we update this list with the latest from the French Riviera, including Harrison Ford returning for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Pixar animated film Elemental, Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City with (of course) an all-star cast, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in Todd Haynes’ May December, Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke in Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life, and much more. –Debbie Day
Here’s where the films stand so far:
Read also: The 2023 Summer Movie Scorecard
#1
Adjusted Score: 97961%
Critics Consensus: Dispassionately examining the ordinary existence of people complicit in horrific crimes, The Zone of Interest forces us to take a cold look at the mundanity behind an unforgivable brutality.
Synopsis: The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in...
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#2
Adjusted Score: 98284%
Critics Consensus: Gently devastating in its compassion, Monster is a masterpiece of shifting perspectives that surprises to the end.
Synopsis: When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a...
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#3
Adjusted Score: 101078%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Sandra, a German writer, lives with her husband Samuel and their visually-impaired son Daniel in a remote mountain chalet in...
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#4
Adjusted Score: 100335%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Fallen Leaves tells the story of two lonely people (Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen) who meet each other by chance...
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#5
Adjusted Score: 100206%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured...
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#6
Adjusted Score: 94138%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The film is set in the 1980s in the clandestine world of the tombaroli, or tomb robbers and tells the...
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#7
Adjusted Score: 69659%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#8
Adjusted Score: 75606%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: CLOSE YOUR EYES turns on a famous Spanish actor, Julio Arenas, who disappears while filming a movie. Although his body...
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#9
Adjusted Score: 50785%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#10
Adjusted Score: 44240%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The first amongst her friends to hit puberty, Zaffan, 12, discovers a terrifying secret about her body. Ostracized by her...
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#11
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Ann, a morose New Yorker in her 30's, feels stuck in all areas of her life. To her dismay, the...
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#12
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Through her child’s eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart...
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#13
Adjusted Score: 44103%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Jordan, nowadays. After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal, 30s, has to fight for her part of inheritance in...
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#14
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Downtown Recife's classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site...
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#15
Adjusted Score: 99857%
Critics Consensus: Enormous in runtime, theme, and achievement, Killers of the Flower Moon is a sobering appraisal of America's relationship with Indigenous peoples and yet another artistic zenith for Martin Scorsese and his collaborators.
Synopsis: Based on David Grann's broadly lauded best-selling book, "Killers of the Flower Moon" is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts...
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#16
Adjusted Score: 96594%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday – drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the...
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#17
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The Sweet East is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States...
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#18
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. Longing for a home of their own, they have decided to live apart...
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#19
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Morán and Román are two bank employees that at some point in their lives question the routine life they carry...
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#20
Adjusted Score: 82278%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older...
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#21
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: After moving in with her boyfriend to their new home, Mila begins to realize her loss of desire lies deep...
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#22
Adjusted Score: 92097%
Critics Consensus: Swaddling its difficult fact-based story in a blanket of campy humor, May December is a seductively discomfiting watch.
Synopsis: Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, Gracie Atherton-Yu and her husband Joe (twenty-three years her junior)...
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#23
Adjusted Score: 89212%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#24
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In cold wintry Yanji, a city on China's northern border, young urbanite Haofeng, visiting from Shanghai, feels lost and adrift....
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#25
Adjusted Score: 45138%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#26
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Zhili, 150 km from Shanghai. In this city dedicated to textile manufacturing, young people come from all the rural regions...
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#27
Adjusted Score: 31537%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: ANSELM details the work of the immensely talented artist Anselm Kiefer. Taking us on a 3D journey through Kiefer's stations...
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#28
Adjusted Score: 31625%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#29
Adjusted Score: 81035%
Critics Consensus: Asteroid City is unlikely to win Wes Anderson many new converts, but those who respond to his signature style will find this a return to immaculately arranged form.
Synopsis: The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for...
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#30
Adjusted Score: 51234%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Khédidja works for a wealthy Parisian family who offered her to mind their children for a summer in Corsica. Bringing...
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#31
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope's soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By...
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#32
Adjusted Score: 62554%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: THE OLD OAK is the story of a village in the Northeast of England, where the mine closed, and people...
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#33
Adjusted Score: 68580%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A man rides a horse across the desert that separates him from Bitter Creek. He comes to visit Sheriff Jake....
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#34
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#35
Adjusted Score: 64393%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The past collides with our precarious present in Steve McQueen's bravura documentary Occupied City, informed by the book Atlas of...
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#36
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#37
Adjusted Score: 50763%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Anne, a brilliant lawyer, lives in perfect harmony with her husband Pierre and their six and eight-year-old daughters, in a...
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#38
Adjusted Score: 37970%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#39
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#40
Adjusted Score: 56623%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Disney and Pixar's "Elemental," an all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live...
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#41
Adjusted Score: 54163%
Critics Consensus: Heavily coiffed and perfumed as to cover up its plebeian status, Jeanne Du Barry waltzes aimlessly through a noble attempt at vindicating its eponymous femme.
Synopsis: Jeanne Vaubernier, a working-class woman determined to climb the social ladder, uses her charms to escape her impoverished condition. Her...
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#42
Adjusted Score: 50763%
Critics Consensus: Divorced from the historical record with little to show for it, Firebrand is a period piece whose revisionist aims are at odds with its stultifying approach.
#43
Adjusted Score: 51907%
Critics Consensus: Although there's a nostalgic rush in seeing Harrison Ford back in action, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is a largely unnecessary franchise finale.
Synopsis: Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied...
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#44
Adjusted Score: 25589%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#45
Adjusted Score: 39743%
Critics Consensus: Although Hypnotic isn't without glimmers of inspiration, the ultimate effect of this often clunky crime caper will be to leave you feeling rather sleepy.
Synopsis: Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole investigating a series...
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#46
Adjusted Score: 43461%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Miss Novak joins the staff of an international boarding school to teach a conscious eating class. She instructs that eating...
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#47
Adjusted Score: 31290%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In preparation for his dream of medical school, Ollie Cross, hits the streets driving an ambulance alongside Rutkovsky, a grizzled...
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