Photo: Aurore Marechal/Getty Images The first big standing ovation at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival wasn’t for a new film. It was for Guillermo Del Toro, at the conclusion of the Pan’s Labyrinth screening. “Fuck AI,” he said , to deafening applause. It’s a weird Cannes, which means even our annual standing-o-meter is going to be a little funky. Every year, Vulture averages the timers the big trade papers report at both the Cannes and Venice. We’ve noticed some trends. Over two Venice Film