"The best film so far in this year's Cannes competition, Abbas Kiarostami's first feature made outside Iran is in many ways a departure in terms of style and content, yet at the same time it is
"Beneath all the swift camerawork and rapid editing, Alejandro González Iñárritu remains a sentimentalist," writes Anthony Kaufman at IFC.com. "In his latest, Biutiful, a stylized paean to a devoted
"Like his last film, 2008's 24 City, Jia Zhangke's Un Certain Regard title I Wish I Knew is a documentary/fiction hybrid about modern-day China," begins Matt Noller at the House Next Door. "Where
Craig Keller has been doing outstanding work in the run-up to the passionately anticipated new film from Jean-Luc Godard, Film Socialism — translating interviews and press materials and keeping the
"As violent, amoral and misanthropic as a Jacobean play, Outrage is Takeshi Kitano's first yakuza flick since Brother (2000), and arguably his best film in a decade." And Maggie Lee makes that argument
"When Bertrand Tavernier embarked on his first period piece, Let Joy Reign Supreme, some 35 years ago, he produced a stunning portrait of life at the court of the Bourbons in early 18th century
"By Sunday evening the strongest competition film, at least for me, was the deceptively straightforward A Screaming Man, from the Chadian-born director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, a self-designated exile
First, a reminder of what we thought we knew about the films screening in Cannes this year, the entries announcing the lineups: The Official Selection and Cannes Classics; Directors' Fortnight and Critics
Cargo co-editor Ekkehard Knörer has been doing such a bang-up job rounding up reviews in German and English, plus one French tweet — he's even adding links to each of the Letras de Cine grades — that any
"Essentially supersizing Nowhere (1997) and relocating it from high school to college, [Gregg Araki's Kaboom] spins an insanely complicated narrative of sex, drugs, dreams, webchats, self-fellating
Mike D'Angelo at the AV Club: "To say that Xavier Dolan's sophomore effort lives up to expectations won't mean much to most of you, since his terrific debut, I Killed My Mother, which swept the
New York's Logan Hill notes that Charles Ferguson's "rip-snorting, indignant documentary" Inside Job opens with a shot of the NYC skyline that's "almost identical" to another in Oliver Stone's