Critics Blake Williams, Savina Petkova, Öykü Sofuoğlu, Flavia Dima, Nicholas Bell, and Jordan Cronk discuss highlights from the first weekend of Cannes 2026, including:

- Paweł Pawlikowski's Fatherland
- Asghar Farhadi's Parallel Tales
- Radu Jude's The Diary of a Chambermaid
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi's All of a Sudden