Cannes 2023 Movie Scorecard: Best Movies at the Film Festival – Rotten Tomatoes

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Updated: May 22, 2023
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

#2

The Zone of Interest (2023)
100%

#2

Adjusted Score: 100718%
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… [More]
Directed By: Jonathan Glazer

#3

How to Have Sex (2023)
100%

#3

Adjusted Score: 89268%
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… [More]
Directed By: Molly Manning Walker

#4

The Delinquents (2023)
100%

#4

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… [More]
Directed By: Rodrigo Moreno

#5

The Goldman Case (2023)
100%

#5

Adjusted Score: 50962%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: [More]
Directed By: Cédric Kahn

#6

The Animal Kingdom (2023)
86%

#6

Adjusted Score: 38326%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: [More]
Directed By: Thomas Cailley

#7

Four Daughters (2023)
89%

#7

Adjusted Score: 51072%
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… [More]
Directed By: Kaouther Ben Hania

#8

Tiger Stripes (2023)
100%

#8

Adjusted Score: 38018%
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… [More]
Directed By: Amanda Nell Eu

#9

Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
100%

#9

Adjusted Score: 57293%
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… [More]
Directed By: Justine Triet

#10

Banel & Adama (2023)
100%

#10

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… [More]
Directed By: Ramata-Toulaye Sy

#11
Adjusted Score: 96675%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Based on David Grann’s broadly lauded best-selling book, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts… [More]
Directed By: Martin Scorsese

#12

May December (2023)
93%

#12

Adjusted Score: 93782%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, Gracie Atherton-Yu and her husband Joe (twenty-three years her junior)… [More]
Directed By: Todd Haynes

#13

The Sweet East (2023)
93%

#13

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… [More]
Directed By: Sean Price Williams

#14

About Dry Grasses (2023)
82%

#14

Adjusted Score: 57524%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: [More]
Directed By: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

#15

The New Boy (2023)
70%

#15

Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: [More]
Directed By: Warwick Thornton

#16

Youth (Spring) (2023)
86%

#16

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… [More]
Starring:
Directed By: Bing Wang

#17

The Breaking Ice (2023)
86%

#17

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…. [More]
Directed By: Anthony Chen, Anthony Chen

#18

Lost in the Night (2023)
67%

#18

Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: [More]
Directed By: Amat Escalante

#19

Strange Way of Life (2023)
69%

#19

Adjusted Score: 69020%
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…. [More]
Directed By: Pedro Almodóvar

#20

Occupied City (2023)
65%

#20

Adjusted Score: 65274%
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… [More]
Starring:
Directed By: Steve McQueen

#21

Firebrand (2023)
50%

#21

Adjusted Score: 44570%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: [More]
Directed By: Karim Aïnouz

#22

Homecoming (2023)
75%

#22

Adjusted Score: 38196%
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… [More]
Directed By: Catherine Corsini

#23

Jeanne du Barry (2023)
52%

#23

Adjusted Score: 52963%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Jeanne Vaubernier, a working-class woman determined to climb the social ladder, uses her charms to escape her impoverished condition. Her… [More]
Directed By: Maïwenn

#24
Adjusted Score: 50355%
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… [More]
Directed By: James Mangold

#25

Hypnotic (2023)
37%

#25

Adjusted Score: 40795%
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… [More]
Directed By: Robert Rodriguez

#26

Black Flies (2023)
27%

#26

Adjusted Score: 18903%
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… [More]

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