🎙️2025 Cannes Film Festival - Audio Film Reviews

Q: Case 137

Dominik Moll's Case 137 premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, earning praise as a politically relevant and suspenseful police procedural. The film stars Léa Drucker as a dedicated investigator. Based on a real incident, the story follows a police investigation into a shooting during Yellow Vest protests in Paris, where a young demonstrator is seriously injured. The film examines police accountability as Drucker's character navigates departmental loyalty in the pursuit of justice. In her critique, Deborah Young hails it as a highly enjoyable watch, which also asks tough questions about police accountability, combining the best elements of the genre with layer upon layer of unemphatic realism.

Q: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Christopher McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning , a Cannes premiere, is the eighth installment in the iconic franchise, and delivers what critic Alonso Duralde calls a heart-in-your-throat thrilling action that makes its three-hour runtime fly right by. The film continues the story from Dead Reckoning Part 1, with Tom Cruise returning as the indomitable Ethan Hunt. The plot picks up one month after the previous film, with Hunt and his team racing to counter a super-intelligent AI called The Entity that has infiltrated the internet and threatens nuclear arsenals worldwide. Alongside series regulars Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames, newcomers Trammell Tillman and Katie O'Brien stand out in a cast that Duralde describes as vastly overqualified. Though the reviewer notes the film is simultaneously about everything and nothing, he praises it as a summer blockbuster entertainment that skillfully balances outrageous stunts with self-awareness, staying, as he says, within their lane, even if that lane is already fully exaggerated in scope.

Q: Enzo

Enzo , the final collaboration between the late Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo, opened the director's fortnight at Cannes to warm reception, serving as a touching tribute to Cantet, who passed away in April 2024. This poignant selection honours two acclaimed filmmakers, whose previous Cannes successes include Cantet's Palme d'Or for The Class in 2008 and Campillo's Grand Prix for 120 BPM in 2017. Set against a sun-drenched Mediterranean coast, the film follows 16-year-old Enzo, newcomer Eloy Pohu, a privileged teenager who rejects his comfortable middle-class upbringing to train as a bricklayer, forming complex bonds with Ukrainian workers while navigating his overprotective father's anxieties. Critic Deborah Young praises the film's sensual cinematography and hedonistic, exotic vibes, noting how it thoughtfully explores adolescent thinking and rebellion through a story of a well-heeled rebel pushing back blindly against his middle-class origins.

Listen to audio reviews of three movies that premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

In this episode of TFV on Point, we turn our attention to three films that premiered in the program of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival: Case 137, directed by Dominik Moll; Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, directed by Christopher McQuarrie; Enzo, directed by Robin Campillo and Laurent Cantet.

To read the full reviews of these films and other titles presented at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, visit The Film Verdict.

TFV on Point is a podcast series turning reviews from TFV’s leading industry film critics into brief audio broadcasts. The show is hosted by Sarah Vianney.

Read a transcript of the podcast below.

Case 137

Dominik Moll's Case 137 premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, earning praise as a politically relevant and suspenseful police procedural. The film stars Léa Drucker as a dedicated investigator. Based on a real incident, the story follows a police investigation into a shooting during Yellow Vest protests in Paris, where a young demonstrator is seriously injured. The film examines police accountability as Drucker's character navigates departmental loyalty in the pursuit of justice. In her critique, Deborah Young hails it as a highly enjoyable watch, which also asks tough questions about police accountability, combining the best elements of the genre with layer upon layer of unemphatic realism.

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Christopher McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, a Cannes premiere, is the eighth installment in the iconic franchise, and delivers what critic Alonso Duralde calls a heart-in-your-throat thrilling action that makes its three-hour runtime fly right by. The film continues the story from Dead Reckoning Part 1, with Tom Cruise returning as the indomitable Ethan Hunt. The plot picks up one month after the previous film, with Hunt and his team racing to counter a super-intelligent AI called The Entity that has infiltrated the internet and threatens nuclear arsenals worldwide. Alongside series regulars Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames, newcomers Trammell Tillman and Katie O'Brien stand out in a cast that Duralde describes as vastly overqualified. Though the reviewer notes the film is simultaneously about everything and nothing, he praises it as a summer blockbuster entertainment that skillfully balances outrageous stunts with self-awareness, staying, as he says, within their lane, even if that lane is already fully exaggerated in scope.

Enzo

Enzo, the final collaboration between the late Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo, opened the director's fortnight at Cannes to warm reception, serving as a touching tribute to Cantet, who passed away in April 2024. This poignant selection honours two acclaimed filmmakers, whose previous Cannes successes include Cantet's Palme d'Or for The Class in 2008 and Campillo's Grand Prix for 120 BPM in 2017. Set against a sun-drenched Mediterranean coast, the film follows 16-year-old Enzo, newcomer Eloy Pohu, a privileged teenager who rejects his comfortable middle-class upbringing to train as a bricklayer, forming complex bonds with Ukrainian workers while navigating his overprotective father's anxieties. Critic Deborah Young praises the film's sensual cinematography and hedonistic, exotic vibes, noting how it thoughtfully explores adolescent thinking and rebellion through a story of a well-heeled rebel pushing back blindly against his middle-class origins.