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This fast and airy thriller about a team of four magicians is an engagingly preposterous high-wire act. It…
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Drive, the deliriously bloody and overwrought Ryan Gosling art thriller that premiered two years ago at Cannes, is…
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When film directors stage a scene from the mid-1970s, we all know how it's done: They'll clear everything…
Joel and Ethan Coen have never made a movie that didn't have at least a few big bubbles…
If you had gone to see every single one of the acclaimed movies from Iran that have played…
It's no secret, though it's often forgotten, that the heyday of art film -- roughly speaking, the '50s…
I'm writing my first post here at Cannes while I sit at one of my favorite side-street bistros,…
Star Trek Into Darkness opens on a primitive planet, where the natives are restless and a volcano, in…