Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme received middling scores on Screen’s Cannes jury grid while Kleber Mendonca Filho’s The Secret Agent impressed.
The Phoenician Scheme debuted with an average of 2.3 from the critics, including one four-star (excellent) from Le Monde’s Mathieu Macharet and a one-star (poor) from Time’s Stephanie Zacharek.
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The rest of the scores for Anderson’s latest espionage, with another starry ensemble including Benicio del Toro, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hanks, comprised eight two-stars (average) and two three-stars (good).
It beats out the US director’s Asteroid City which landed with 2.2 in 2023 and matches that of 2021’s The French Dispatch on 2.3.
Critics were more impressed with Brazilian thriller The Secret Agent, scoring a 2.8 overall, enough for joint second place alongside Sound Of Falling.
The film, set during the 1977 dictatorship, received three four-stars from The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, The New Yorker’s Justin Chang and Bangkok Post’s Kong Rithdee. This was alongside four three-stars and five two-stars.
It is up on Filho’s last Competition entry Bacurau which scored 2.6 back in 2019.
The next scores to land on the jury grid will be Tarik Saleh’s Eagles Of The Republic and Julia Ducournau’s Alpha.
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