Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors and Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident finished joint top of Screen’s final 2025 Cannes jury grid with an a
Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors and Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident finished joint top of Screen’s final 2025 Cannes jury grid with an average score of 3.1.
The final two titles on the grid, the Dardenne brothers’ Young Mothers, and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, both landed with 2.7.
See the final grid below:
Young Mothers sees the Dardenne brothers return to Competition with the story of five teenagers, all housed in a shelter for youthful mothers and hoping for a better life for themselves and their babies.
The film scored two four-stars (excellent), from Peter Bradshaw and Stephanie Zacharek, as well as four three-stars (good), while Ahmed Shawky gave it a one star (indigent), for an overall 2.7 average.
The two-time Palme d’Or winners were previously on the grid with Tori And Lokita in 2022, scoring a 2.5.
Reichardt’s drama The Mastermind follows a thief planning an audacious art heist, set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Josh O’Connor, Gaby Hoffman, John Magaro and Hope Davis head the cast.
It earned a 2.7 overall score, thanks to a mix of three and two-stars (average), although Screen’s critic awarded it a four-star.
Showing Up, her previous film in Cannes Competition, landed third on the grid in 2022 with 2.7.
The winning scores of 3.1 were down on last year’s winner, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig from Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, which topped the 2024 chart with a 3.4. The record holder is still Burning with 3.8 in 2018.
Propping up the grid this year was Mario Martone’s Fuori with a 1.1 (the worst score ever on the grid was Sean Penn’s The Last Face, which got just 0.2 in 2016), followed by Julia Ducournau’s Alpha on 1.5.
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