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The Hollywood Reporter’s critics’ picks crown the 20 best films from Cannes 2026, spanning Competition, Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week, and highlighting a diverse lineup—from intimate dramas and ambitious epics to bold genre fare—led by standout entries from Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Paweł Pawlikowski.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden (Soudain), his first French-language feature, debuts at Cannes as the fest’s longest title this year. The drama follows a French nursing-home director and a visiting Japanese theatre director, weaving in debates about France’s health-care system, capitalism’s impact, and the Humane care approach called Humanitude. With strong performances, the film is praised for its humane intentions, but its 3+ hour length and lecture-like stretches threaten to dilute the drama.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden (Soudain) is a patient, dialogue-driven meditation set in a Paris elder-care home that asks whether care and human dignity can endure under the pressures of aging populations and late‑stage capitalism; anchored by Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, the film rewards patience with a humane exploration of friendship, mortality, and the small acts that sustain life.
At Cannes, Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden follows Marie-Lou, director of a Paris care home, and Mari, a terminally ill patient, as they spend a night talking across French, English and Japanese. Their intimate exchange about care, capitalism, urbanism, and living in the present becomes a life‑changing, cinematic meditation on time and humanity, buoyed by generous performances and restrained craft, even as its 196‑minute length tests patience.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden, debuting at Cannes, interweaves a dying playwright’s existential musings with a nursing-home funding crisis in a long, intimate drama led by Tao Okamoto and Virginie Efira. The film, sung by multilingual dialogue and a nearly three-hour runtime, uses caregiver dynamics to probe capitalism’s failures while highlighting human kindness and connection, with actors detailing rigorous prep and a collaborative, patient directing process that reshapes their lives and careers.
A Cannes 2026 preview foresees a star‑studded, auteur‑driven lineup with new works from Pedro Almodóvar, Asghar Farhadi, Paweł Pawlikowski, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takashi Miike, Florian Zeller, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Luca von Trier and others. While some high‑profile projects (Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, Toy Story 5, The Mandalorian & Grogu) appear unlikely to bow at the Croisette, the festival is expected to host competitive premieres and potential Un Certain Regard entries, maintaining Cannes’ reputation for bold, director‑led premieres.
GameSpot reports that Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3’s subtitle has been decided by creative director Tetsuya Nomura after narrowing to two options at Paris Games Week, with Naoki Hamaguchi confirming the title is now locked for the trilogy’s concluding installment.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake director Naoki Hamaguchi praised the Xbox Series S's solid hardware and discussed the challenges of developing for lower-spec systems, emphasizing optimization and a multi-platform approach by Square Enix to reach wider audiences, including Xbox.