All the Films in Competition at Cannes 2026, Ranked from Best to Worst

All the Films in Competition at Cannes 2026, Ranked from Best to Worst

12. “Coward” After winning awards and generating controversy at Cannes for “Girl” (2019) and “Close” (2023), two queer coming-of-age dramas that veer between exquisite sensitivity and near-exploitative cruelty, the Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont returned this year with his third and strongest feature, set during the First World War. Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne shared the…

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Inflation and Confusion Are Up, Consumers Are Down

Inflation and Confusion Are Up, Consumers Are Down

A kind of cognitive dissonance has settled over retail — and the consumer.  Wall Street is way up and hitting new highs, but so are gas prices as the war with Iran lingers.  Retail earnings have been strong, but the outlooks aren’t what they could be.  And inflation has sales on the rise, but despite…

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Looking Back at Lewis and Clark

Looking Back at Lewis and Clark

History is usually written in the third person, even though it has to be lived in the first, and Fehrman takes advantage of the rich and deep documentation of the Lewis and Clark expedition to try to reconcile the discrepancy. The book adopts the perspectives not only of Lewis and of Clark but also of…

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Bella Hadid Trades Cannes Heels for a $180 Thong Sandal

Bella Hadid Trades Cannes Heels for a 0 Thong Sandal

Bella Hadid shifted gears from Cannes heels to a flatter Saint-Tropez shoe on Sunday, taking a casual stroll with her brother Anwar Hadid in black leather thong sandals. Bella Hadid is seen wearing Massimo Dutti, including her thong sandals, with her brother Anwar Hadid on Sunday in Saint-Tropez, France. GC Images The model and Orebella…

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Cote and the Risks of the Clubstaurant

Cote and the Risks of the Clubstaurant

The restaurateur Simon Kim opened Cote in the Flatiron district, in 2017, with an alluring conceit: a marriage of two of the great beef-worshipping restaurant genres, the Korean-barbecue joint and the American steak house. He borrowed Cote’s format from the former, with grills inset into tabletops and a classic Korean menu of meat, marinades, and…

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Frédéric Fekkai Accused of Sexual Abuse by Former Jeffrey Epstein Assistant

Frédéric Fekkai Accused of Sexual Abuse by Former Jeffrey Epstein Assistant

Jeffrey Epstein’s former assistant Sarah Kellen alleged that she was sexually abused by star hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai, during closed-door testimony before the House Oversight Committee. In her deposition, which was given voluntarily, she also claimed that she was abused by former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and famed fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier, who died in…

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How Quentin Bisch Became a Fragrance Industry Darling

How Quentin Bisch Became a Fragrance Industry Darling

Quentin Bisch, the Givaudan master perfumer, has such a varied repertoire of greatest hits you’d think he could embody any character in a play, at any time. But rather, the nose behind the bestselling scents from Amouage, Jean Paul Gaultier and Carolina Herrera started his studies backstage — literally — and his university training as…

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The Verve and Confrontation of Lisa Yuskavage’s Naked Ladies

The Verve and Confrontation of Lisa Yuskavage’s Naked Ladies

The history of art is littered with naked ladies, of course, from Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” to Ingres’s “Grande Odalisque” to Picasso’s “Nude Woman in a Red Armchair,” but Yuskavage’s ladies are, indeed, of a particular kind, and could quite easily be taken for what the artist’s husband, Matvey Levenstein, jokingly called “stroke material for…

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