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Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW.

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Inside Movies Cannes 2013: 'Behind the Candelabra' is more than a dark Liberace kitschfest. It's a creepily moving love story
by Owen Gleiberman | May 21, 2013 10:00 AM

Behind the Candelabra, Steven Soderbergh's backstage drama about Liberace, the fur-and-sequin-clad, ivory-ticking kitsch maestro of "wonderful" entertainment, and…

Inside Movies Cannes 2013: 'Blood Ties' is an authentic '70s-set crime movie that gives Clive Owen his best role in years
by Owen Gleiberman | May 20, 2013 12:30 PM

When film directors stage a scene from the mid-1970s, we all know how it's done: They'll clear everything…

Inside Movies Cannes 2013: The Coen brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis' is a close-to-the-bone tale of the early-'60s New York folk scene, but it is also (what else?) a perverse Coen stunt
by Owen Gleiberman | May 18, 2013 07:00 PM

Joel and Ethan Coen have never made a movie that didn't have at least a few big bubbles…

Inside Movies Cannes 2013: 'The Past,' the new film by the director of 'A Separation,' confirms Asghar Farhadi as a modern master
by Owen Gleiberman | May 18, 2013 11:30 AM

If you had gone to see every single one of the acclaimed movies from Iran that have played…

Inside Movies Cannes 2013: Unhinged sex comes to the art house in 'Young & Beautiful' and 'Stranger by the Lake'
by Owen Gleiberman | May 17, 2013 12:30 PM

It's no secret, though it's often forgotten, that the heyday of art film -- roughly speaking, the '50s…

Inside Movies Cannes 2013: The girls have gone wild in 'The Bling Ring,' Sofia Coppola's most provocative film yet
by Owen Gleiberman | May 16, 2013 11:20 AM

I'm writing my first post here at Cannes while I sit at one of my favorite side-street bistros,…

Movie Review Star Trek Into Darkness
by Owen Gleiberman | May 15, 2013

Star Trek Into Darkness opens on a primitive planet, where the natives are restless and a volcano, in…

Movie Review Stories We Tell
by Owen Gleiberman | May 08, 2013

Stories We Tell , the third feature directed by Sarah Polley ( Away From Her ), takes the…

Movie Review Peeples
by Owen Gleiberman | May 08, 2013

It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that I sat through Peeples wishing it were far…

Inside Movies Shane Black and 'Iron Man 3': Who knew that the high-concept screenwriter of 'Lethal Weapon' would turn out to be a thrilling director?
by Owen Gleiberman | May 07, 2013 12:00 PM

If Iron Man 3 had been made by a young director who very few people had heard of,…

Movie Review Greetings from Tim Buckley
by Owen Gleiberman | May 01, 2013

A lot of young actors have wanted to play the cult rock idol Jeff Buckley, who died in…

Movie Review The Big Wedding
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 26, 2013

If you see enough movies, you may start to absorb the lesson that any commercial comedy with the…

Inside Movies Seth MacFarlane: He's baaack! as Oscar host. Or is he? A look at how, and why, this could actually happen
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 25, 2013 10:59 AM

I'm not usually a betting man, but if I was, I'd have wagered a lot of money on the…

Movie Preview Arthur Newman
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 24, 2013

Colin Firth has portrayed so many posh, charming, and articulate men that you can see why he was drawn to playing the title character of ''Arthur Newman'' — a middle-class American drone in khakis and a geek's pastel polo shirt.

Inside Movies '42': Its success tells us something surprising about what audiences want
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 19, 2013 02:29 PM

I'm always interested when a movie dramatically surpasses box office expectations -- not for what it says about…

Inside Movies With Tom Cruise's 'Oblivion' on the horizon, do post-apocalyptic movies still speak to us?
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 13, 2013 11:59 AM

The landscape is vast, endless, and bare, often parched, sometimes green but always empty, with maybe a lone…

Movie Review 42
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 10, 2013

These days, there are many less flattering things you could say about a movie than that it's enjoyable…

Movie Review To The Wonder
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 10, 2013

Terrence Malick's To the Wonder is the work of a director who now views himself as a holy…

Inside Movies More than just a great critic, Roger Ebert redefined movie criticism for the blockbuster age
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 04, 2013 08:09 PM

For anyone who grew up in the late '70s, '80s, or '90s watching Roger Ebert spar on television…

Movie Review The Company You Keep
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 03, 2013

In The Company You Keep , Robert Redford plays a former member of the Weather Underground who was…