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Tommy Lee Jones’ ‘The Homesman’ Is Haunted by How the West Was Won
Cannes 2014 review: This entertaining, genre-bending Western with Hilary Swank also has deeper themes on its mind
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‘Mr. Turner’ Review: Mike Leigh’s (Self-)Portrait of the Artist
Cannes 2014: Timothy Spall’s self-centered painter anchors Leigh’s brilliant examination of the human price of creative genius
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Cannes Review: In ‘Nebraska,’ Alexander Payne Paints an American Life
Bruce Dern delivers a sweet rendering of old age in Payne's most personal film, and one of his best
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Cannes Review: Robert Redford’s Actions Speak Much Louder Than Words in ‘All Is Lost’
Redford gives a moving performance as a man lost at sea in J.C. Chandor's almost dialogue-free follow-up to "Margin Call"
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Cannes Review: Soulless, Despicable ‘Only God Forgives’ Shuts Up and Slices Limbs
"Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn indulges in one bloody killing after another, and practically licks the knife afterwards
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‘Behind the Candelabra’ Review: Sex, Lies & the Closet at Cannes
In competition at the festival, Soderbergh's honest, authentic rendering of the passionate, sometimes silly love affair between Liberace and Scott Thorson is his best film in years
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Cannes Review: Without the Blood Lust, Takashi Miike’s ‘Shield of Straw’ Draws Boos
The Japanese cult director refuses to sell out his premise for the sake of audience satisfaction
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Cannes Review: ‘Borgman’ Makes No Sense – in a Good Way
Alex van Warmerdam's film is a bizarre, rambling, vivid dream that often feels as if the director and cast are making it up as they go along
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Cannes Review: Coen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Is a Breathtaking Ode to Failure
Coens' tragicomic story of Greenwich Village folk scene is a sharp, evocative portrait of a world about to be changed by Bob Dylan
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Cannes Review: ‘The Past’ Is a Brilliant Meditation on Secrets & Lies
But Asghar Farhadi's first film since "A Separation" may be tough to beat for the Palme d'Or
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Cannes Review: ‘The Bling Ring’ Rips Open the Fame Game
The parents are awful, the teenagers are repulsive and the celebrities are removed from reality, but no one gets away clean in Sofia Coppola's brilliant movie
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Cannes Review: ‘Young & Beautiful’ Supplies Sex and Nudity, but Where’s the Soul?
Francois Ozon’s story of a teenage prostitute asks an audience to check its morality at the door
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Cannes Review: ‘Killing Them Softly’ Has Brad Pitt, Dirty Money and No Regrets
Lots of things go wrong in Andrew Dominik's Brad Pitt gangster movie "Killing Them Softly" — but beneath it all, the film is a dark indictment of American capitalism
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Cannes Review: ‘Like Someone in Love’ Is All Questions, No Answers
Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's "Like Someone in Love" is a thorny trifle that toys with its audience
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Cannes Review: In ‘Amour,’ the Agony and Beauty of Enduring Love
Michael Haneke's film about a couple's love amid tragedy is already considered an Oscar contender for foreign language film