Cannes Film Festival

Portrait of a Lady on Fire Is a Radiantly Sensual 18th-Century Story That Resonates Today

By Stephanie Zacharek

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Is One of Quentin Tarantino's Most Affectionate Films. It's Also One of His Best

By Stephanie Zacharek

Review: Pedro Almodóvar's Vibrant Pain and Glory Makes the Heart Pump Harder

By Stephanie Zacharek

Cannes Review: Terrence Malick Returns, Virtuously, With Pious Nazi Prison Drama A Hidden Life

By Stephanie Zacharek
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Cannes Review: The Dead Don't Die Brings Jim Jarmusch’s Intimate Touch to the World of Zombies

The movie plays like a scrapbook, not just of zombie-movie lore but of the places Jim Jarmusch has been before and the people he likes to see in his movies

By Stephanie Zacharek

Cannes Review: Spike Lee's BlackKklansman Is the Movie We Need Now—And It's Funny, Too

Though it’s an honor to have a film chosen for the competition slate at the Cannes Film Festival, we also live in an age where the positioning of films for Oscar season has practically become...

By Stephanie Zacharek

Cannes 2018 Opens with a Middling Movie But a Killer Jury

The 2018 Cannes Film Festival has officially opened. Huzzah! The terrible time leading up to the festival, several interminable weeks of listening to critics, pundits and other dark wizards prognosticate about the so-called weakness of...

By Stephanie Zacharek

The Square is a Caustically Elegant Satire With No Right Angles

It’s challenging enough to make a comfortable life for yourself. How much are you supposed to care about the welfare of others, particularly people who have fallen through society’s cracks?There’s no measurable answer to that...

By Stephanie Zacharek

Nicole Kidman & Naomi Campbell's Encounter Is Joy Incarnate

Nicole Kidman: Oscar-winning actor is enjoying all the kudos after starring in the critically-acclaimed miniseries Big Little Lies, becoming an internet meme multiple times over, and throwing down couture fashion looks left and right.Naomi Campbell:...

By Raisa Bruner

The Beguiled: A Sly Ode to the Sensuality of Deceit

Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, playing at Cannes in competition, may be a reimagining of a 1971 Don Siegel revenge thriller starring Clint Eastwood, but it’s really its own hypnotic yet hardy species of flora, a...

By Stephanie Zacharek

Enough Already With the Feel-Bad Movies That Are Supposedly Good for You

Clinical filmmakers with zero warmth are in abundance. Too bad

By Stephanie Zacharek

Wind River Is a Beautiful Modern Western About Another America

There’s something to be said for a well-crafted motion picture, cinematically astute, that demands that we sit down and pay attention for a solid two hours or so

By Stephanie Zacharek

The Meyerowitz Stories Proves (Again) That There's a Good Adam Sandler

As comedians age, it's harder for them to skate by on just acting cute as Sandler often has. But he can do more, and this film proves it.

By Stephanie Zacharek

Okja: A Super-Cute Super-Pig Made to Suffer Supremely

'Okja' takes the worst impulses of Walt Disney, Wes Anderson, Tim Burton and Michael Moore and rolls them into one movie.

By Stephanie Zacharek

Todd Haynes' Wonderstruck Will Leave You Exactly That

'Wonderstruck' embraces so many shimmery, evanescent ideas, it’s a marvel that any one picture—let alone one you can take your kids to—can hold them.

By Stephanie Zacharek

Julia Roberts Went Barefoot on the Cannes Red Carpet

No shoes, no problem

By Cady Lang

Woody Allen Sidesteps a Rape Joke in Cannes

“I never read anything about me, these interviews I do, anything,” Woody Allen said at a press luncheon for his new film Café Society Thursday during the 69th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. And...

By Stephanie Zacharek / Cannes

Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara Are Destined for Heartbreak in the Trailer for Carol

The film drew rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival

By Eliza Berman

Netflix Snaps Up Brad Pitt Movie About General Stanley McChrystal

Based on the late Michael Hastings' controversial best-seller The Operators

By Tatiana Siegel, Natalie Jarvey / The Hollywood Reporter

Cannes Film Festival Steps Into Controversy Over High Heels-Only Policy

Women are reportedly being turned away from screenings for wearing flat shoes

By Maya Rhodan
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