Reviews

[Cannes Review] Lawless

John Hillcoat's Lawless, with its Tommy guns, tilted fedoras and backwater blues, is certainly the most American film to show at Cannes in some time. It's the 1...

[Cannes Review] Reality

Matteo Garrone's Reality never becomes the vicious criticism of unearned fame and non-stop television one might expect from the man who revived the mafia pictur...

[Cannes Review] The We and the I

With each new film, Michel Gondry falls further and further away from his Charlie Kaufman-scripted opus, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Here in Cannes w...

[Review] Battleship

Screenwriters Erich and Jon Hoeber actually made paying Hasbro a boatload of cash for their seemingly-unnecessary board game property a relevant story point in ...

[Review] American Animal

American Animal exists within the crazed psyche of Matt D'Elia, which is appropriate because he's the star, the writer, the director, the co-editor and also one...

[Cannes Review] Rust & Bone

In Jacques Audiard's follow-up to the internationally-acclaimed and Oscar-nominated A Prophet, the French filmmaker decided to adapt a short story collection by...

[Cannes Review] After the Battle

Political debates can be well worth the time and aggravation they take up, both educating and challenging each participant to think about important topics in ne...

[Review] The Dictator

The Dictator certainly sounds like a great idea. Gifted character actor Sacha Baron Cohen inhabits the grandiose, pompous, and ridiculous mantle of a third-worl...

[Cannes Review] Moonrise Kingdom

In Wes Anderson's seventh film Moonrise Kingdom, the quintessential quirkiness that's made the filmmaker a household name is in full effect. Unlike his last liv...

[Review] Dark Shadows

Dark Shadows is a strange breed of film. This adaptation of the cult soap opera show is not as stylishly bizarre as one might expect. Quite the opposite, in fac...