Hirokazu Koreeda’s Sheep In The Box has recorded the lowest score so far on Screen’s 2026 Cannes jury grid, with James Gray’s Paper Tiger and Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beloved also landing.
Japanese sci-fi Sheep In The Box currently has an average of 1.4, with one score yet to come. Ratings include two zeroes (bad) from Egypt’s Ahmed Shawky and France’s Mathieu Macharet. Postif’s NT Binh was more impressed, giving the film a three star (good) rating, while the rest of the scores comprised one-stars (poor) and two-stars (average).
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It is the Japanese filmmaker’s lowest score on the jury grid, behind 2022’s Broker on 1.9 and well below his 2018 Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters on 3.2.
Sheep In The Box centres on a couple who take a humanoid robot into their home after the death of their son.
Gray marks his third time in competition with Paper Tiger, scoring 2.7 with one score to follow. The period thriller received two four-stars (excellent) from Macheret and US critic Stephanie Zacharek (Time), while Meduza’s Anton Dolin gave it just one star.
The US filmmaker’s last appearances on the grid were 2022’s Armageddon Time on 2.8 and 2013’s The Immigrant with 2.4.
Scarlett Johansson, Miles Teller and Adam Driver star in Paper Tiger, about two brothers whose pursuit of the American Dream leads to the family being terrorised by the Russian mafia.
Sorogoyen’s The Beloved divided the critics with a 2 average. The Spanish drama received five one-stars and five three-stars, while Zacharek and The Telegraph gave it two stars (average).
Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo star in the film as an estranged film director father and his actress daughter reunited for a shoot.
The next films to land on the grid will be Laszlo Nemes’s Moulin, Jeanne Herry’s Another Day and Na Hong-Jin’s Hope.
The jury grid is updating live on screendaily.com, in addition to being printed in our Cannes dailies.
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