Cannes Film Review: 'Le Demantelement'
A film whose measured pace and minimal conflict seem better suited to pastoral living than arthouse viewing.
Peter Debruge
Cannes Film Review: 'The Congress'
Admirers of Ari Folman's "Waltz With Bashir" should adjust their expectations for this trippy cautionary tale.
Modest 'Scarecrow' Preps Fresh Field in Gotham
For proof of how much the film industry has changed over the past four decades, one need look no further than Jerry Schatzberg's "Scarecrow," which won the Palme d'Or in Cannes 40 years ago this…
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 Review: 'Assault on Wall Street'
An ugly, unusually audience-pandering thriller from the prickly German director behind such mass-killing sprees as "Postal" and "Rampage," this one playing like "Margin Call" with grenades.
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: 'And Now a Word From Our Sponsor'
This well-cast but seldom funny satire reps a missed opportunity.
Golden Trailer Loves the Promos, Skewers the Pics
The Oscars could learn a thing or two from the shorter, punchier Golden Trailer Awards, which relocated yet again this year to BevHill's Saban Theater, a classy venue for a show marked by dirty jokes…
Trailers Jump on the Age-Restricted Red-Band Wagon
For years, most moviegoers didn't know the difference between green-band trailers (featuring content approved by the Motion Picture Assn. of America for "appropriate audiences") and their…
Lake Bell Finds Her Voice 'In A World' Dominated By Men
Lake Bell has lost her voice. The actress calls from New York with laryngitis, which is kind of ironic considering she plays the daughter of a famous trailer narrator who aspires to become that…
