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[Cannes Review] Le Havre

Deadpan comedies are a trademark of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki. He specializes in creating atmospheres devoid of overtly acted emotions, opting instea...

[Cannes Review] Drive

In Drive, Ryan Gosling plays a lone-wolf type who likes to do precisely what the title explicitly says. Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, best known fo...

[Cannes Review] The Skin I Live In

Director Pedro Almodóvar is a true master at weaving multiple relationship threads and themes in a seemingly nonchalant fashion. His ability of control seem...

[Cannes Review] Pina

After watching Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a 3D film about prehistoric paintings in France, it became clear that perhaps there is an appropria...

[Cannes Review] Wu Xia

In Peter Chan's action packed epic Wu Xia (or Swordsmen), the successful Chinese director takes the classic wu xia genre of films made popular by the Shaw Bro...

[Cannes Review] Melancholia

Lars von Trier, the notorious bad boy maestro of Cannes, has delivered a new masterpiece in the form of the apocalyptic Melancholia. Following the disturbing ...

[Cannes Review] The Artist

With the current generation of film goers awash with movies splattered with special effects, artificial 3D processing and endless computer generated images,...

[Cannes Review] Miss Bala

In a visceral manner, the Mexican thriller Miss Bala brings into focus a serious problem the country faces with the drug cartels. It centers on an young gir...

[Cannes Review] The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick is one of the most interesting American directors working today, despite making only four films previous to his latest endeavor, The Tree of...