The other night we had the pleasure of meeting Mia Wasikowska, the wan, wonderful young actress who has played the title roles in Alice in Wonderland and Jane Eyre and was in Cannes to promote her new film, Restless. Tall and polite, and flashing deep dimples she almost never reveals on screen, the 21-year-old Australian rhapsodized …
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We Need to Talk About Kevin: The Face of Pure Evil
When a child dies, it is a tragedy for the parents, an upsetting of the natural order. But when a child kills, is the parent also guilty of the crime? We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay’s solid, scary film that became …
Wu Xia: Martial Arts Majesty
Wu Xia, which will be called Dragon when The Weinstein Company releases it in the United States, brought the Festival’s weekend slate roaring to life. An antidote to the slow, overweight Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger …
Johnny Depp’s Pirates Sinks on the Riviera
Today two action films invaded the stately art house that is the Cannes Film Festival. In line with the Festival’s policy of keeping the slate of pictures competing for the Palme d’Or pure and rigorous, Pirates of the Caribbean: …
Unlawful Killing: Was Princess Diana Murdered?
Will they show the death photo? A week after that question dominated U.S. news in the wake of the Osama bin Laden killing, all of Cannes — or, rather, many in the British press reporting on the film festival — was …
Top 10 Movie Wedding Scenes
Lars von Trier’s Melancholia has one of the longest movie wedding scenes we can recall. TIME looks at cinema history’s most memorable matrimonial moments.
Kung Fu Panda 2: A Jolly Sequel, But Not an Equal
The evil Lord Shen (voiced by Gary Oldman) has just introduced gunpowder to China and plans to aim it at the country’s greatest martial artists, a group that implausibly includes a pudgy panda bear named Po (Jack Black). Po’s …
Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen’s Off-Key Love Song
Woody Allen loves Paris. He loves the rain and the statues, kiosks, Metro entrances. Most of all, he loves the rich history of a city whose inhabitants invented so many of the things he holds dear: romance (and cheating), and …
Bridesmaids: Kristin Wiig’s Merry Band of Party Poopers
Wrapped in slapstick and sweetened with romance, Bridesmaids is at its core a shrewd examination of female friendship and insecurity
Festival Diary: The Morning Line
The art-film industry’s rite of spring is upon us. The 64th Cannes Film Festival begins tomorrow with the promise of new work representing the finest international directors and stars. After a drab Cannes 2010, the Côte d’Azur …
Everything Must Go: Will Ferrell, at Home in Carver Country
The comedy superstar takes a serious turn in a melancholy new drama
The 15 Greatest Movie Car Chases of All Time
TIME, feeling the need for speed, decided to choose the best car chase scenes of all time.
Thor: A Minor Marvel
The Norse god faces two daunting challenges: to vanquish his enemies in mythological Norway and modern-day New Mexico, and to top Fast Five at the box office