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(L to R) Jake Ryan as "Woodrow", Jason Schwartzman as "Augie Steenbeck" and Tom Hanks as "Stanley Zak" in writer/director Wes Anderson's ASTEROID CITY, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Pop. 87 Productions/Focus Features

‘Asteroid City’ review: Wes Anderson’s homage to Steven Spielberg is among his most meta and most melancholic | Cannes

Ben Rolph May 23, 2023

With an explosion of pastel colours, precise camera moves and a whimsical script, Asteroid City is Wes Anderson operating at his best, still doing his... Read More

‘Firebrand’ review: Karim Aïnouz doesn’t give much room for Alicia Vikander’s rebellious queen and Jude Law’s corpulent king to subvert expectation | Cannes

Ben Rolph May 23, 2023

King Henry VIII’s last wife steps into the forefront in Firebrand, Karim Aïnouz’s English-language debut. Alicia Vikander stars as the quietly rebellious Catherine Parr, Queen... Read More

‘Fallen Leaves’ review: Love wins in Aki Kaurismäki’s tender tragicomedy of the working class that finds him at his romantic best | Cannes

Savina Petkova May 22, 2023

A title as poetic as Fallen Leaves entirely suits the fourth installment of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki’s working-class series, which began with Shadows in Paradise,... Read More

Focus Features drops first look clips of ‘Asteroid City’ ahead of its Cannes Film Festival debut

Erik Anderson May 22, 2023

Ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this week, Focus Features has dropped three first look clips of Asteroid City,... Read More

‘How to Have Sex’ review: Molly Manning Walker’s sensational, high-energy debut an equally urgent cautionary tale of consent | Cannes

Nick Ruhrkraut May 22, 2023

If asked to describe How to Have Sex in one word, the answer, however strange, comes easily in the form of a place: an airport.... Read More

‘May December’ review: Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore make a meal out of Todd Haynes’ delicious story of infamy and obsession | Cannes

Ali Benzekri May 21, 2023

In 2015, Todd Haynes came to Cannes to premiere Carol that received rave reviews and an instant cult classic treatment. He came back to the... Read More

‘The Sweet East’ review: Talia Ryder is exceptional in this satirically nihilistic look at American anarchy | Cannes

Ben Rolph May 20, 2023

The Safdie Brothers’ Good Time cinematographer Sean Price Williams returns to the Cannes Film Festival after last year’s Funny Pages premiere but this time as... Read More

‘The Zone of Interest’ review: Jonathan Glazer’s Auschwitz-set drama is monumental in its representation of the seen and unseen horror of the Holocaust | Cannes

Savina Petkova May 20, 2023

Exactly ten years after the singular sci-fi achievement that was Under the Skin, writer-director Jonathan Glazer is back in Cannes’ Main Competition with a new,... Read More

‘The New Boy’ review: Cate Blanchett and Aswan Reid stun in Warwick Thornton’s spiritually dense Aboriginal fable | Cannes

Ali Benzekri May 20, 2023

Australian director Warwick Thornton lets you know from the beginning that the Aboriginal boy (a mesmerizing Aswan Reid), who arrives at a remote monastery, is... Read More

Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) in Lucasfilm's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.

‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ review: Harrison Ford says farewell in this nostalgic, thrilling final chapter | Cannes

Ben Rolph May 19, 2023

Taking the reins from Steven Spielberg is no easy feat, but James Mangold proves that he’s up for the task with this adventurous fifth and... Read More