Before Midnight may be the greatest film ever made about impermanence—a fitting theme for a work that also reestablishes the A-list... More >>

Nearly everyone I know who has seen the official poster for the 66th Cannes Film Festival -- a bird’s-eye view of a kiss between a young... More >>

One of the most exciting things about attending the Cannes Film Festival is being among the first people to see the films the world will be... More >>

The biggest puzzlement of these early days of the festival comes from Sofia Coppola, one of my favorite working directors. Until now, I have... More >>

François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful, a portrait of a 17-year-old French call girl, is something else again. This is another story... More >>

In his new film, the social drama At Any Price, director and co-writer Ramin Bahrani examines how the transformation of food into intellectual... More >>

"It was 1991. I fly into LA. I take a cab to Compton. On the phone, Richard [Williams] said, 'The only thing I guarantee you, you won't get... More >>

Un Plan Parfait (Fly Me to the Moon), a romantic comedy that was the 2013 Newport Beach Film Festival's (NBFF) French Spotlight picture, was the... More >>

In the course of reviewing movies in the early 2000s, just as computer-generated special effects were becoming radically sophisticated and were... More >>

Uwe Boll will no longer fight you—at least, not with his fists. Often lambasted by critics as the worst of the worst, Boll once actually... More >>