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[Review] Epic

In William Joyce’s charming picture book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, an aging grandmother introduces her grandchildren to the miraculous hidden world ...

[Review] Missed Connections

Sometimes we must look past formulaic cliché and an overreaching desire to transform a less than trustworthy internet dating tool on Craigslist into a phenomeno...

[Cannes Review] Shield of Straw

Takashi Miike might be the hardest working man in Japanese cinema at the moment, often making three to four different films in a single year. This uncanny outpu...

[Cannes Review] Behind the Candelabra

"Too much of a good thing is wonderful." So says Liberace in what might be Steven Soderbergh's final feature film, Behind the Candelabra. A biopic about the fla...

[Cannes Review] Borgman

One of the surprises in the main competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival is Borgman, a Dutch thriller directed by Alex van Warmerdam. Set in the Netherl...

[Cannes Review] The Bling Ring

The latest from Sofia Coppola is a left turn of sorts for the auteur who is known for her atmospheric, ennui-drenched films. Given the edgy source material, the...

[Review] Populaire

Régis Roinsard’s Populaire is being marketed as a romantic comedy, and so it is, but it’s also a buddy comedy of sorts, featuring a girl and her trusty typewrit...

[Review] Black Rock

There’s so much promising talent behind the new thriller Black Rock, that it’s initially disappointing when director Katie Aselton and scribe Mark Duplass revea...

[Cannes Review] Like Father, Like Son

Few filmmakers can be said to have the same propensity for child actors as Hirokazu Koreeda. In 2004 he made Nobody Knows with an almost entirely adolescent cas...

[Review] Fast & Furious 6

After a decade of high-octane car porn, it seemed like it was time to put the parking brake on the Fast and the Furious franchise following the lackluster fourt...