Cannes Film Review: 'Blue Ruin'
A lean and suspenseful genre piece that follows a bloody trail of vengeance to its cruel, absurd and logical conclusion.
Justin Chang
Cannes Film Review: 'The Past'
Like his Oscar-winning "A Separation," Asghar Farhadi's latest is an exquisitely sculpted family melodrama in which the end of a marriage is merely the beginning of something else
Cannes Film Review: 'A Touch of Sin'
Unquestionably Jia's most mainstream-friendly work, if also his most schematic and, blades aside, least penetrating.
Cannes Films On the Critical List
Variety's critics will see much of the Cannes selection, but which pics are they really excited about? The answers below
Film Reviews: Opening This Week (May 6-10, 2013)
A critical digest of the week's latest U.S. theatrical releases. Where applicable, links to longer reviews have been provided. The Great Gatsby Distributor: Warner Bros. It don't mean a thing if it…
3View: 'The Great Gatsby'
It comes as little surprise that the Aussie auteur behind the gaudy, more-is-more spectacles "Moulin Rouge" and "Australia" has delivered a "Gatsby" less in the spirit of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel…
Film Review: 'Generation Um…'
This scrappy, draggy character study is noteworthy chiefly as a showcase for its lead actor's most quintessentially Keanu performance in years.
Film Review: 'Tai Chi Hero'
A sporadically engaging martial-arts extravaganza that looks even better compared with its predecessor.
Film Review: 'The Numbers Station'
This glum, juiceless spy thriller is unlikely to find an audience on any frequency.
Review: “3-View: 'Pain & Gain'”
The large-scale destructiveness he has previously wreaked upon public and private property (including entire cities), Michael Bay visits on the human body in "Pain & Gain," a pulverizing steroidal…
