Cannes Film Festival

‘Still the Water’ “If ‘masterpiece’ is a word that critics should use with extreme caution,” begins Guy Lodge at In Contention, “the same should probably …

‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them’ As Oliver Lyttelton puts it at the Playlist, the sheer “existence of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby is one …

‘Force majeure’ “For inspiration on his latest film, Force Majeure, the Swedish director Ruben Östlund made use of an overflowing archive of human behavior, that …

‘Foxcatcher’ “Mesmerizing in its incremental layering of a bizarre, tragic and thoroughly warped character study, Foxcatcher sees director Bennett Miller well surpassing even the fine …

Mia Wasikowska in ‘Maps to the Stars’ We begin—again!—with the Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw, who opens by declaring that David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars “is …

‘The Wonders’ “Alice Rohrwacher, director of the much admired first feature Corpo Celeste, has come to Cannes with a gentle, humorous, and sweet-natured coming-of-age story,” …

‘It Follows’ David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows has premiered in Critics’ Week, and its “premise is inventive, brutally simple, and wisely left unexplained,” writes Mike …

‘The Homesman’ “The rough lot handed to women in the Old West remains a footnote in the cinematic history of cowboy days, but it figures …

Marcello! Click the titles for overviews of initial critical reaction—links and, when available, trailers, clips and interviews. Titles will be added throughout the festival, and …

‘National Gallery’ “Frederick Wiseman’s institutional analyses entered a new register in the mid ’90s with Ballet, wherein the institution’s involvement with the constructive and performative …