In her fictionalized account of the teen girls who robbed the homes of Hollywood celebrities, the director offers a portrait of the idle rich without coloring or character
Cannes 2013: 20 Films for Our 40th Festival
Screening on La Croisette this year are new offerings from Joel and Ethan Coen, Sofia Coppola, Jim Jarmusch, and Roman Polanski
The Palme d’Amour: Director Michael Haneke Takes Cannes’ Top Prize—Again
Michael Haneke’s quietly magnificent story of love on the brink of death takes the top prize, while seven American films oozing with star quality get no love at all
Palme d’Or Preview: Handicapping Five Top Contenders at Cannes
On the Festival’s final day, we consider films from the U.S., the U.K., Romania, Denmark and France
Norman Lloyd: Hitchcock’s Saboteur Is a World-Class Raconteur
He worked and played with Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Renoir, Elia Kazan, Bertolt Brecht — and at a vital 97, he gave the best show at Cannes 2012
Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 2: Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis
The Twilight star plays a young billionaire on a crosstown death ride in David Cronenberg’s bland denunciation of wretched excess
Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 1: Zac Efron in The Paperboy
The tweens’ dreamboat gets down and dirty in this lurid, racially charged melodrama
Second Annual Edition: If I’d Been Tweeting from Cannes…
…it’d be a miracle, since I have no Twitter account, no smart phone and no desire to instantly embarrass myself in front of my dozens of followers.
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Kerouac’s On the Road Comes to Cannes: Where’s the Beat?
Walter Salles’ film of the Beat Generation classic wastes a strong cast, including Twilight‘s Kristen Stewart, in a needless tribute to ’50s wanderlust
Killing Them Softly: Brad Pitt’s the Hitman, But the Movie’s Not a Hit
He’s a mob enforcer, and a cool dude, in Andrew Dominik’s laggard crime drama
Michael Haneke’s Poignant Amour: The Flowers and the Stars
The Austrian director, already a Cannes winner for The White Ribbon, presents a wrenching tale of love in its final fulfillment
Lawless: A Crime Drama That’s Remorseless—and Often Lifeless
Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy star as moonshining brothers in a movie too studied to do full justice to a bloody-compelling true story
Beasts of the Southern Wild: The Sundance Sensation Wins Cheers at Cannes
Artful and magical, this debut feature by Benh Zeitlin is the first film of Cannes 2012 that comes within hailing distance of masterpiece