All Is Lost: Robert Redford’s See-Worthy Adventure
A man alone, fighting fate on a disabled boat, provides one of the year’s richest experiences
A man alone, fighting fate on a disabled boat, provides one of the year’s richest experiences
The British star shines in this true story of a woman searching for the son stolen from her a half-century ago
J.C. Chandor’s new film stocks its 105 minutes with enough seafaring challenges and adventure to keep mainstream audiences fascinated
A schoolgirl becomes a call girl in this evocative drama with a star-making role for Marine Vacth
Writer-director Jeff Nichols mines visual and dramatic poetry from this coming-of-age melodrama about a boy and the murderer he admires
Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant are incandescent in Michael Haneke’s fable of immortal devotion
Martial-arts icon Donnie Yen stars in this thrilling story of a family man with killer moves
The Academy Award-winning star of ‘La vie en rose’ shines in a love story where tragedy plays matchmaker
Southern Gothic sex drives this lurid melodrama from the director of ‘Precious’
That icon of movie liberalism rounds up some fine old stars—Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte—for a thriller about veterans of the Weather Underground
Delight is not a word frequently associated with the films at Cannes. Seriousness, slowness, strangeness: the movies on the Grand Palais screen are often dour and demanding. This year the world’s most acclaimed directors have …
The countdown ticks toward Sunday’s Palme d’Or ceremony. With two days left, only two of the 20 film in competition are left to see. In a Festival that began with big names and high hopes, a gentle malaise has settled upon the
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Within the hour, Richard Corliss will be posting his review of Lars von Trier’s (in my view, excellent) new film Melancholia, which had its world premiere this morning. But von Trier, the wildly talented, supremely maddening Danish director of such Cannes favorites as Europa/Zentropa, Breaking the Waves and Antichrist, topped himself for …