Critics Blake Williams, Mark Peranson, Daniel Kasman, Öykü Sofuoğlu, and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal discuss films from the first two days of Cannes 2026, including:

- Pierre Salvadori's The Electric Kiss
- Kantemir Balagov's Butterfly Jam
- Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
- Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet's A Woman's Life
- Kôji Fukada's Nagi Notes