SPECIAL FRIDAY UPDATE: CANNES AND THE CRITICS
With the awards now only hours away in France. MTFB is updating our window on the critical response there.
Additional titles have screened and continued adding of critics' responses puts us with 12 films we're including in our analysis of what's what at Cannes
Here's the rundown on each film from each critical accumulator I'm following: Ioncinema, Screen Daily, The International Cinephile Society and Cannes-ratings.org.
IONCINEMA (5 point scale)
1) Fatherland 3.7
1) Fjord 3.7
1) Coward 3.7
4) Minotaur 3.5
5) A Man of His Time 3.4
5) The Man I Love 3.4
7) All of a Sudden 3.3
8) Paper Tiger 3.2
8) The Beloved 3.2
10) Hope 3.2
11) Bitter Christmas 3.0
12) The Black Ball 2.8
SCREEN DAILY (4 point scale)
1) Fatherland 3.3
2) Minotaur 3.2
3) All of a Sudden 3.1
4) Paper Tiger 2.8
4) Hope 2.8
4) A Man of His Time 2.8
7) Fjord 2.5
8) Bitter Christmas 2.2
9) The Man I Love 2.1
9) The Black Ball 2.8
11)Coward 2.0
11) The Beloved 2.0
INTERNATIONAL CINEPHILE SOCIETY (4 point scale)
1) Paper Tiger 3.69
2) Fatherland 3.54
2) A Man of His Time 3.54
4) The Man I Love 3.50
5) All of a Sudden 3.38
6) Minotaur 3.23
7) Coward 3.06
8) Bitter Christmas 3.00
9) Fjord 2.96
10) Hope 2.71
11) The Beloved 2.54
12) The Black Ball 2.05
CANNES-RATINGS.ORG (10 point scale)
1) The Black Ball 8.62
2) Coward 7.80
3) Bitter Christmas 7.48
4) All of a Sudden 7.27
5) Minotaur 7.00
6) Fjord 6.81
7) The Beloved 6.49
8) Hope 6.37
9) A Man of His Time 6.33
10) Fatherland 6.12
11) Paper Tiger 6.07
12) The Man I Love 5.44
and the MTFB "touch" the combination from all four sources*.
1) Fatherland 13.60
2) Minotaur 13.42
2) All of a Sudden 13.42
4) A Man of His Time 12.91
5) Paper Tiger 12.73
6) Coward 12.66
7) Fjord 12.57
8) Bitter Christmas 11.94
9) Hope 11.90
10) The Man I Love 11.72
11) The Black Ball 11.26
12) The Beloved 10.99
* Ratings have been balanced for each source.
Finally the Kalshi line this morning for the Palme d'Or have All of a Sudden out front with The Black Ball at #2 and Fatherland at #3.
The critics are all over the place with various groups placing films at wildly divergent spots within this top 12. Look again at the combined ratings with the addition of what spot they're at in each of the four groups. It's crazily inconsistent:
1) Fatherland 13.60 [1-1-2-10]
2) Minotaur 13.42 [4-2-6-5]
2) All of a Sudden 13.42 [7-3-5-4]
4) A Man of His Time 12.91 [5-4-2-9]
5) Paper Tiger 12.73 [8-4-1-11]
6) Coward 12.66 [1-11-7-2]
7) Fjord 12.57 [1-7-9-6]
8) Bitter Christmas 11.94 [11-8-8-3]
9) Hope 11.90 [10-4-10-8]
10) The Man I Love 11.72 [5-9-4-12]
11) The Black Ball 11.26 [12-9-12-1]
12) The Beloved 10.99 [8-11-11-7]
My gut leans toward All of a Sudden.
A Tough week for Farhadi (Parallel Tales), Kruetzer (Gentle Monster), Kore-eda (Sheep in the Box), Harari (The Unknown) and Nemes (Moulin).
Source links:
https://www.ioncinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-cannes-grid-bitter-christmas.jpg
https://www.screendaily.com/cannes-jury-grid
https://icsfilm.org/cannes-ics-grid/cannes-2026-ics-press-industry-panel/
https://cannes-ratings.org/
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