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The 10 best movies we saw at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival

Our expectations were set sky high and still we left with an even 10 titles that floored us, including new work from Lynne Ramsay, Jafar Panahi and Nadav Lapid.

Iranian director and screenwriter and producer Jafar Panahi (R) and his team celebrate on stage after winning the Palme d'Or for the film Un "Un simple accident" (A Simple Accident) during the closing ceremony at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 24, 2025. (Photo by Sameer AL-DOUMY / AFP) (Photo by SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Denzel Washington in "Highest 2 Lowest."

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Lynne Ramsay makes movies like no one else. She promises it won’t be 8 years before the next one

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What scares Ari Aster these days? His answer is dividing Cannes, so we sat down with him

At this year’s Cannes, bleak is the new black and miserable endings are très chic

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