The six best films we saw at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Mikey Madison in the movie “Anora”. (Cannes Film Festival) In a main competition filled with laughs, Sean Baker's outrageous crime-action…
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'The Garfield Movie' review: full of inside jokes and action
Since 1978, cartoonist Jim Davis has explored the everyday dramas of pet ownership through the daily travails of the beleaguered…
Review of 'The Beach Boys': a sentimental documentary that downplays the importance of fights
I will (almost) always watch a movie about the Beach Boys (the latest, simply titled “The Beach Boys,” premieres Friday…
In Cannes 2024 hits 'Armand' and 'Bird', adults are the problem
CANNES, France— Although it takes place entirely within the confines of a Norwegian elementary school building on the eve of…
Will Hollywood workers leave town as local studio production slows?
There's no business like showbiz, but in Los Angeles it seems like there's no business at all. If this sounds…
'The Apprentice', 'The Substance': Cannes under the knife
CANNES, France— No monster is ever fully formed. They are created, sometimes lovingly tended to, by our worst impulses. Astutely,…
Cannes: 'The Apprentice' team strikes back at Trump's campaign
CANNES, France— “It's time to make movies political again,” director Ali Abbasi said after introducing his Donald Trump biopic “The…
'Taking Venice': how Robert Rauschenberg surprised the Biennale
The Venice Biennale may have lost much of its singular luster, now that hundreds of periodic surveys of new international…
'Chicken for Linda!' review: A bold path for animation
Some memories float in the ether of our subconscious waiting for a catalyst to bring them back to the foreground.…
How the most puzzling scene in 'Civil War' came to be
Warning: The following contains spoilers for “Civil War.” The United States has been destroyed in the “Civil War.” An armed…