Critics Blake Williams, Mark Peranson, Flavia Dima, Daniel Kasman, Öykü Sofuoglu, Vadim Rizov, and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal discuss films from the first weekend of Cannes 2025, including:

- Oliver Laxe's Sirât
- Richard Linklater's New Wave (Nouvelle Vague)
- Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love
- Christian Petzold's Mirrors No. 3
- Ari Aster's Eddington