Cannes Film Festival: My 30 favorites, ranked

From the Palme D’Or winner, Anora

This year’s Cannes Film Festival started slowly, but turned out to be a very strong edition. Here are my thirty favorite films—all great or very good—ranked in order of preference:

Caught by the Tides
All We Imagine As Light
Grand Tour
Anora
It’s Not Me
Misericorde
Histoires D’Amerique (Akerman, '89)
Rosaura at 10:00 (Soffici, '58)
The Shrouds
Law and Order (Wiseman, '69)
La Scenario de me vie, Francois Truffaut
Apprendre
Megalopolis
Rendez Vous Avec Pol Pot
Visiting Hours
Santosh
Le Royaume
Ernest Cole, Lost and Found
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
The Invasion
Julie Zwigt
Rumours
Spectateurs
Kinds of Kindness
The Girl With the Needle
The Damned
An Unfinished Film
L’Histoire de Souleymane
Ma Vie Ma Geule
Emilia Perez