CANNES Festival 2019

[Chris Knipp]

Parasite tops the Jury Grid.

As predicted, Bong Joon-ho's Parasite is the critical leader now in Competition films, according to Screen Daily's latest Jury Grid compilation of ten critics. It's now

Parasite 3.4
Portrait of a Lady on Fire 3.3
Pain and Glory 3.3
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 3.0

With Sciamma's and Almodóvar's films tied. Xavier Dolan is "struggling" notes Screen Daily with a 1.7; only Peter Bradshaw liked it much. But while Dolan's It's only the end of the World got a 1.4 in 2016, it won the Grand Prix and the Jury Ecumenical Prize. Sometimes a Jury goes its own way.