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Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW.

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Inside Movies 'This Is the End' is more than just hilarious. It marks the potentially revolutionary moment when the movies met reality TV
by Owen Gleiberman | Jun 16, 2013 12:39 PM

For years, Hollywood producers have been cannibalizing television shows to come up with concepts for movies. The trend…

Movie Review The Bling Ring
by Owen Gleiberman | Jun 12, 2013

The Bling Ring , Sofia Coppola's acerbically arresting fifth feature, is a tasty contradiction: a clear-eyed, empathetic look…

Inside Movies Are the sex scenes in 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' artful? Or are they 'male gaze' porn?
by Owen Gleiberman | Jun 08, 2013 12:30 PM

There's something almost reassuring about the fact that in 2013, a movie sex scene could still be controversial.…

Movie Review The Internship
by Owen Gleiberman | Jun 07, 2013

Owen Gleiberman on halfway clever cookie-cutter culture-clash comedy with Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn

Movie Review This Is the End
by Owen Gleiberman | Jun 06, 2013

You could sit through a year's worth of Hollywood comedies and still not see anything that's genuinely knock-your-socks-off…

Movie Review Now You See Me
by Owen Gleiberman | May 30, 2013

This fast and airy thriller about a team of four magicians is an engagingly preposterous high-wire act. It…

Movie Review After Earth
by Owen Gleiberman | May 30, 2013

I've lost count, but After Earth seems like it must be the fourth post-apocalyptic thriller this month. The…

Inside Movies Cannes 2013: 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' is a seriously sexy French lesbian coming-of-age love story. Plus, Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix in 'The Immigrant'
by Owen Gleiberman | May 25, 2013 12:40 PM

There's a first time for everything. At a Cannes showing of Blue Is the Warmest Color, a three-hour…

Inside Movies Cannes 2013: Alexander Payne's 'Nebraska' is very minor Payne (but still a pleasure). Plus, my Palme d'Or prediction
by Owen Gleiberman | May 23, 2013 01:10 PM

Alexander Payne has become one of those figures who isn't just a film director -- he's a genre.…

Movie Review Before Midnight
by Owen Gleiberman | May 22, 2013

The first time we saw Jesse and Celine, the ardent duo played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy…

Inside Movies Cannes 2013: With hardly a line of dialogue, Robert Redford is marvelous as a man lost at sea. Plus, Liz Taylor's bling
by Owen Gleiberman | May 22, 2013 02:10 PM

All Is Lost is a man-stranded-at-sea movie, starring Robert Redford, in a role that has almost no dialogue,…

Inside Movies Cannes 2013: 'Only God Forgives' re-teams Ryan Gosling with the director of 'Drive.' But this one stalls
by Owen Gleiberman | May 22, 2013 10:40 AM

Drive, the deliriously bloody and overwrought Ryan Gosling art thriller that premiered two years ago at Cannes, is…

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-tickling 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…

Movie Article Movies: May 24, 2013
by Owen Gleiberman, Clark Collis, Chris Nashawaty, Karen Valby | May 17, 2013

Our quick takes on movies out this weekend

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…