Cannes Film Festival 2025 reviews: our film critic's verdict on the winners and losers
What will be the next Anora? It's that simple. That's the question on everyone's lips in Cannes. Anora, this year's Oscar champion, started life as last year's Cannes winner, and so the movie world, ever attuned to the value of formula (see Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, also premiering here), has decided Cannes will set the awards season agenda this time too. And it's not just Anora, of course. Big trophy contenders such as Emilia Pérez and The Substance also premiered at last year's Cannes. Thus the giddy attentions of everyone including buyers, agents, distributors and critics will be focused on the buzzy titles that emerge over the next fortnight as instant audience favourites.
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