Reviews
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Bullets, Vampires and Hippies: Cannes Gets Invaded by English-Language Indies
Un Certain Regard sidebar is playing host to the terrific indies “The Transfiguration,” “Captain Fantastic” and “Hell or High Water”
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‘Aquarius’ Cannes Review: Sonia Braga Stubbornly Stays Sexy in Her Golden Years
Star seems poised for a Cannes Best Actress win in Brazilian director Kleber Mendonca Filho’s breezy film
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‘Hands of Stone’ Cannes Review: Nice Robert De Niro Celebration, Routine Boxing Movie
The movie about Roberto Durán got a big boost from his presence — and from an emotional salute to De Niro
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‘Personal Shopper’ Cannes Review: Does Kristen Stewart Drama Deserve All Those Boos?
Stewart’s reteam with Olivier Assayas got rough reception on Monday
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‘Loving’ Cannes Review: Ruth Negga Stands Out in Poignant Real-Life Drama
Strong performances and a low-key tone highlight Jeff Nichols’ modest salute to a groundbreaking interracial couple
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‘The Nice Guys’ Cannes Review: Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe Are Violently Funny in Occasionally Sour Comedy
Shane Black’s latest take on the buddy-detective comedy is a blast — except for a misanthropic streak that might make the laughs stick in your throat
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‘From the Land of the Moon’ Cannes Review: Marion Cotillard Shines in Conventional Period Piece
Restrained drama is quietly subversive in its look at female sexuality
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‘American Honey’ Cannes Review: It’s a Long Day’s Journey Into the American Night
Andrea Arnold’s beautifully shot American picaresque overstays its welcome, then sticks around for more
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‘The BFG’ Cannes Review: Steven Spielberg, Roald Dahl Have a Great Character, Not a Great Movie
Mark Rylance’s performance as the Big Friendly Giant is the melancholy heart of an adventure story that misses the magic
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‘The Handmaiden’ Cannes Review: Park Chan-wook Turns Up the Kinkiness
Korean director moves into clear NC-17 territory with lavish sex scenes in period thriller
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‘The Dancer’ Cannes Review: Standard Biopic Comes Alive With Breathtaking Dance Sequences
French actress Soko shines as real-life dancer Loïe Fuller, but Lily-Rose Depp is less successful as Isadora Duncan
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‘Toni Erdmann’ Cannes Review: Spectacular Father-Daughter Comedy Knocks the Festival for a Loop
In a festival whose films often deal in shades of darkness, this delightful blast of exuberance is also deeply touching
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‘The Lobster’ Review: Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz Sink Their Claws Into Melancholy Rom-Com
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (“Dogtooth”) returns with a deeply strange satire of relationships that gives sexual desperation the bad name it deserves
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‘Sundown’ Review: Spring Break Somehow Just Got Stupider
Adolescent shenanigans and deafening house music add up to one of 2016’s worst movies
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‘Neruda’ Cannes Review: Pablo Larrain’s ‘Anti-Biopic’ Stumbles, Then Soars
Thanks to Luis Gnecco’s astonishing performance, this is one of the best character studies in years
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Ben Croll