The Twilight star plays a young billionaire on a crosstown death ride in David Cronenberg’s bland denunciation of wretched excess
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Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 1: Zac Efron in The Paperboy
The tweens’ dreamboat gets down and dirty in this lurid, racially charged melodrama
The Intouchables: France’s Biggest Hit Dares You to Resist Its Charms
This fact-based fable of a rich white guy who can’t move and the black ex-con who cares for him is ready to conquer America
Men in Black 3: Somebody Get Tommy Lee Jones a Gold Watch Already
The years off have not been kind to the Men in Black—Josh Brolin as the young, 1969 version of Agent K is the only saving grace in this uneven, long-in-the-making sequel to the sequel
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
Joey Ramone’s Posthumous “…ya know?”: You’ll Almost Wish You Didn’t
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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
Madagascar 3: A Three-Dream Circus
We play hooky from the strained seriousness of the Competition films to enjoy a real, fun movie
What to Expect When You’re Expecting: An Ensemble Film That Doesn’t Deliver
An all-star cast, sentimental rom-com antics and multiple sub-plots can’t save Kirk Jones’ latest from still birth
Rust and Bone: The Love Story of Two Cripples
Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard stars in a gritty romance of outrageous plot contrivances and splendid performances