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[Cannes Review] Laurence Anyways

Xavier Dolan last hit the scene with Heartbeats, his second feature and stylish pseudo-remake of from the 1960s. Writing, directing and also starring in the pr...

[Review] Crooked Arrows

Sports in films have been a cultural celebration, predating Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia also owing its linage to Thomas Edison’s early experiments in motion. Cro...

[Cannes Review] Amour

There is a certain indescribable manner in which Michael Haneke is able to lure you into his films that leaves you in a state of both shock and awe. It's everyt...

[Cannes Review] Beyond the Hills

Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu is undoubtedly a Cannes darling, with his debut feature film Occidental having premiered in the Director's Fortnight in 2002 ...

[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 ...