MAY 27, 2026

By Alison Willmore

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The poster for this year’s Cannes featured a promo shot from Thelma & Louise, which closed out the 1991 version of the festival. From inside the halls of the Palais des Festivals, atop the theaters, and along the sides of lamp posts, an impossibly cool Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon stretched out in blue jeans atop that 1966 Ford Thunderbird, icons of American rebelliousness looking down on an event whose packed streets implied more of a sense of urgency than the actual films generated on the screens inside. From the perspective of 2026, Thelma & Louise represents, with its mixture of thematic daring and commercial viability, an alchemy our mainstream movie industry seems to have since largely forgotten. It was a box office hit as well as a critical one that racked up six Academy Awards, burnished the star status of its leads, and fired up debates with its overt feminism. But every time I glanced up at those two faces, the thought that crossed my mind was that it famously ended with its characters driving off a cliff.

➼ Viewers and cast alike wallowed in the mess at Carl Radke’s very dairy reunion watch party.

➼ Ciara Miller did not hold back. 

➼ "A lot of questions are answered, but the biggest remaining is why, and specifically, why lie?"

➼ It's like watching a car crash in slow motion. 

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