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Critics' Week


355 articles available in total starting from 24/05/2002. Last article published on 19/06/2025.

Review: The Swarm

Review: The Swarm

Awarded Critics’ Week’s 2020 label, Just Philippot’s first feature film is causing a sensation everywhere it goes ahead of its cinema release in France, Spain and China, and elsewhere via Netflix  

29/01/2021 | Films | Reviews | France

Thomas Rosso • Programme Manager, Critics’ Week

Interview: Thomas Rosso • Programme Manager, Critics’ Week

"We’re working with the future in mind"

The new programme manager for Cannes’ Critics’ Week looks back on the 7th edition of Next Step which unfurled in December, and also touches upon Critics’ Week 2021  

08/01/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics’ Week

Review: Beasts

Review: Beasts

Recipient of a 2020 Cannes label and carried by excellent performances, Naël Marandin’s accomplished second feature is a story of domination among the economic challenges of animal farming  

20/11/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition

Aleem Khan • Director of After Love

Interview: Aleem Khan • Director of After Love

"I grew up in a mixed-race family and didn't really know where I fitted into society"

Cineuropa met up with Aleem Khan to talk about his debut feature, After Love, awarded the Cannes label earlier this year  

27/10/2020 | Rome 2020

Review: After Love

Review: After Love

Aleem Khan's excellent debut offers a new perspective on the British Muslim culture clash story  

26/10/2020 | Rome 2020

Festival Scope presents the 2020 Critics' Week short films online

Festival Scope presents the 2020 Critics' Week short films online

10 short films with the 2020 Critics' Week label are accessible online for free, from today until 25 October, on the platform  

22/10/2020 | Cannes 2020 | Critics' Week

Angoulême unveils a tantalising line-up

Angoulême unveils a tantalising line-up

An armload of new works - notably several films bearing the Cannes 73 Label - will be unveiled at the 13th Angoulême Francophone Film Festival, unspooling 28 August – 2 September  

10/07/2020 | Angoulême 2020

Charles Tesson  • Delegate General, Critics’ Week

Interview: Charles Tesson • Delegate General, Critics’ Week

"We have to maintain a presence in order for these films to establish themselves and to get things back up and running as quickly as possible"

Delegate general Charles Tesson traces the development of the Cannes 2020 Critics’ Week Label and discusses the feature films gracing his selection  

08/06/2020 | Cannes 2020 | Critics’ Week

Sphynx scoops Critics’ Week Next Step Award

Sphynx scoops Critics’ Week Next Step Award

The project by France’s Camille Degeye, steered by Société Acéphale, has walked away with the Next Step Prize, awarded by Critics’ Week of the Cannes Film Festival  

05/06/2020 | Cannes 2020 | Critics’ Week/Awards

Five feature films have been awarded the Critics’ Week stamp of approval

Five feature films have been awarded the Critics’ Week stamp of approval

Cannes’ parallel section has selected and will lend its support to films signed by Chloé Mazlo, Anna Cazenave Cambet, Aleem Khan, Naël Marandin and Just Philippot  

04/06/2020 | Cannes 2020 | Critics’ Week

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