COVER ESSAY
01THE JOURNAL · AUGUST 2026
Look further.
Cinema deserves more than a feed: context, conviction, memory and the pleasure of debate.
CRITICISMHISTORYTHEMESCOMING SOON
RADAR · RELEASES TO WATCH
Anticipation is already part of the film.
International dates announced by distributors; local dates may vary.Universal Pictures
Forgotten Island
The season’s big-screen adventure appointment.Universal Pictures
Other Mommy
A genre-film promise made for the dark.Universal Pictures
Focker-In-Law
The return of a comedy machine built for a crowd.Universal Pictures
Violent Night 2
Christmas, action and irreverence: unapologetic guilty pleasure.Focus Features
Werwulf
Robert Eggers returns to myth: our auteur event of the winter.THEMES · OUR THROUGH LINES
Ideas that travel through films.
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Québec after dark
From the anxious city to haunted landscapes: a cinema that refuses the postcard.
→02Laughter as resistance
Popular comedy taken seriously: rhythm, bodies, language and collective intelligence.
→03Border images
Exile, passage and shifting identities in contemporary Francophone cinema.
→“Criticism is not a verdict. It is an invitation to see better.”LE FILM / THE FILM · PARIS — QUÉBEC — BRUXELLES