Cannes Film Festival

‘Macbeth’ “As the shortest, sharpest and most stormily violent of William Shakespeare’s tragedies, Macbeth may be the most readily cinematic,” begins Guy Lodge in Variety. …

‘Chronic’ “Mexican provocateur Michel Franco is a filmmaker of cool-blooded precision and intelligence,” begins Guy Lodge, writing for Time Out. “Yet filmgoers outside festivals largely …

‘The Treasure’ Corneliu Porumbiou’s The Treasure is “one of the festival’s best and a real pleasure in these last dwindling days,” announces Notebook editor Daniel …

‘Embrace of the Serpent’ The Directors’ Fortnight doesn’t present awards itself, but some of its sponsors do. This year, the Art Cinema Award, presented by …

‘Yakuza Apocalypse’ “Takashi Miike’s 257,962nd feature film (this year) received a Special Screening in the Directors’ Fortnight, which basically means that they couldn’t quite justify …

‘Valley of Love’ “Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert, those enduring monuments of French cinema, last shared the screen in Maurice Pialat’s 1980 Loulou as a …

‘By Sidney Lumet’ First up, David Rooney in the Hollywood Reporter: “How fitting that By Sidney Lumet, documentary maker Nancy Buirski’s engrossing career chronicle of …

‘Arabian Nights’ “Like Star Wars, this is three films.” That’s Miguel Gomes, as quoted by Little White Lies editor David Jenkins. His establishing shot: This …

‘Paulina’ This year’s Critics’ Week jury, presided over by Ronit Elkabetz (other members: Katell Quillévéré, Peter Suschitzky, Andréa Picard and Boyd van Hoeij) has presented …