Featuring Joel Edgerton, Charlie Polinger's directorial debut, 'The Plague,' observes a young boy trying to fit in at a summer water polo camp.

‘The Plague’ Review: Boys Will Bully Boys in a Stylish if Schematic Summer-Camp Psychodrama Reviewed at Olympia, Cannes, May 13, 2025. In Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard).

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Set at an all-boys water polo summer camp, The Plague is on the precipice of horror, but this is no Friday the 13th. Bullying and targeting are their own brand of horror, so I would call this film ...

Charli XCX owned her moment by causing a stir at the Magnum Cannes beach party where she jumped in the deejay booth and helped to hype up the crowd by singing along to her hits like “Mean Girls ...