Here are two dozen films that competed in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024 and their scores on Metacritic (the largest aggregator site that collects reviews of movies, games and series). This is not a top in the usual sense; rather, a cross-section that demonstrates the preferences not of individuals, but of global film critics as a whole.
How we've grouped data:
- all films are placed from top to bottom and left to right, from highest to lowest and in alphabetical order;
- the data is current as of the end of May 2024. As more reviews appear, the scores of movies and, as a result, their placement may change slightly;
- we also recommend that you read the results Berlin Film Festival 2024.
All We Imagine as Light — 93 points (dir. Payal Kapadia)
Reward: Grand Prix
Genre: drama
What is remarkable: the story of two neighbors from Mumbai, one of whom receives an unexpected gift from her husband, and the other seeks solitude with her boyfriend.
Anora — 89 points (dir. Sean Baker)
Reward: Palme d'Or
Genre: comedy, drama
What is remarkable: a young sex worker from Brooklyn spontaneously marries the son of a Russian oligarch, which upsets his parents.
The Substance — 83 points (dir. Coralie Fargeat)
Reward: Best Screenplay
Genre: horror, drama
What is remarkable: a once famous lady starts taking an illegal drug that rejuvenates her for a while.
The Girl with the Needle — 82 points (dir. Magnus von Horn)
Reward: -
Genre: drama
What is remarkable: after the First World War, a resident of Copenhagen loses her job and learns that she is pregnant. This leads her to an underground adoption center.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig — 81 points (dir. Mohammad Rasoulof)
Reward: -
Genre: drama, crime
What is remarkable: a Tehran investigator falls into paranoia after losing his service weapon and begins to suspect loved ones of this.
Caught by the Tides — 80 points (dir. Jia Zhangke)
Reward: -
Genre: drama
What is remarkable: a lonely Chinese woman sets out on a journey through Kitay in search of her lost love.
Grand Tour — 76 points (dir. Miguel Gomes)
Reward: Best Director
Genre: drama
What is remarkable: at the beginning of the 20th century, a small government official from Myanmar escapes from his own wedding and goes on the run across Asia.
Motel Destino — 73 points (dir. Karim Ainouz)
Reward: -
Genre: thriller
What is remarkable: a young man invades the already difficult life of a married couple who run a brothel on the coast of Brazil.
Kinds of Kindness — 72 points (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
Reward: Best Actor
Genre: drama, comedy
What is remarkable: a man is trying to change his fate, and a policeman is trying to find out how his wife came back from the dead.
Bird — 70 points (dir. Andrea Arnold)
Reward: -
Genre: drama
What is remarkable: Bailey, 12, who lives with her ever-busy father and brother, is looking for fun away from home.
Emilia Perez — 70 points (dir. Jacques Audiard)
Reward: Jury Prize, Best Actress
Genre: musical, comedy, crime
What is remarkable: the head of the Mexican drug cartel decides to retire, for which he asks for help from a lawyer who is underestimated at work.
Wild Diamond — 64 points (dir. Agathe Riedinger)
Reward: -
Genre: drama
What is remarkable: a girl from a simple French family, dreaming of fame and shining with beauty, decides to join a dubious reality show.
Three Kilometres to the End of the World — 61 points (dir. Emanuel Parvu)
Reward: -
Genre: drama, thriller
What is remarkable: 17-year-old Adi is brutally attacked, after which his peaceful life in the Danube Delta is derailed.
Limonov: The Ballad — 61 points (dir. Kirill Serebrennikov)
Reward: -
Genre: drama, biography
What is remarkable: the wanderings of Eduard Limonov, a slacker in New York, a famous writer in France and a political radical in Russia.
The Apprentice — 61 points (dir. Ali Abbasi)
Reward: -
Genre: drama, biography
What is remarkable: young and energetic Donald Trump starts a real estate business, and is assisted by scandalous lawyer Roy Cohn.
Oh, Canada — 59 points (dir. Paul Schrader)
Reward: -
Genre: drama
What is remarkable: the famous Canadian documentary filmmaker decides to give the last and most frank interview in front of his wife.
Megalopolis — 58 points (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Reward: -
Genre: sci-fi, drama
What is remarkable: a talented architect is eager to rebuild New York, thereby dooming it to death.
Parthenope — 58 points (dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
Reward: -
Genre: fantasy, drama
What is remarkable: Parthenope, who was named after her hometown, lives on the border between reality and myth.
The Most Precious of Cargoes — 57 points (dir. Michel Hazanavicius)
Reward: -
Genre: cartoon, drama
What is remarkable: during World War II, a childless Polish couple living near Auschwitz finds a newborn baby in the snow.
The Shrouds — 55 points (dir. David Cronenberg)
Reward: -
Genre: horror, sci-fi, thriller
What is remarkable: a grieving widower invents a device to meet the dead again.
Beating Hearts — 50 points (dir. Gilles Lellouche)
Reward: -
Genre: musical, romance, crime
What is remarkable: the love of a girl from an ordinary family and an aspiring criminal who is sent to prison for 12 years.
Marcello Mio — 47 points (dir. Christophe Honore)
Reward: -
Genre: comedy
What is remarkable: Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve's daughter imitates her father in dressing, behaving and even breathing. Soon, people around her start referring to her like “Marcello”.
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