Critics Blake Williams, Mark Peranson, Flavia Dima, Daniel Kasman, Öykü Sofuoglu, and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal discuss highlights from the midpoint of Cannes 2025, including:

- Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme
- Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent
- Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident
- Lav Diaz's Magellan
- Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest
- Julia Ducournau's Alpha
- Hlynur Pálmason's The Love That Remains