Movie Reviews

Cannes Review: 'The Dance of Reality,' Alejandro Jodoroworsky's First Film in 23 Years, Is a Return to Form

In the opening minutes of "The Dance of Reality," zany cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky's first movie in 23 years, the director appears onscreen reciting a poem that compares money to blood, Christ and Buddha, then equates death to consciousness and wealth. It's that wacky combination of evocative...

Cannes: How Asghar Farhadi's 'The Past' Confirms His Mastery of Human Behavior

Cannes: Is Ari Folman's 'The Congress' The Most Anti-Hollywood Movie Ever Made?

"A genius designer on an acid trip" is the way one character describes the futuristic animated universe of Ari Folman's "The Congress," one of the most startling uses of the medium to come along in years.

Cannes: Teens Living Dangerously in Sofia Coppola's 'The Bling Ring' and Francois Ozon's 'Young and Beautiful'

Teen life is both among the prevalent focuses of contemporary cinema and a topic most readily understood. Mainstream teen movies tend to resemble the teen naivete rather than exploring the more complicated world that surrounds it. Made outside that system, Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" and Franco...

Buy A Damn Clip-On: How to Navigate the Cannes Film Festival's Opening Night

Cannes celebrates the superficiality of posh, luxurious spectacles while forcing its guests to struggle through the chaos.

How Terrence Malick's 'Badlands' Addresses the Root Causes of American Gun Violence

Here Are Indiewire's Top 10 Articles of the Week: Criticizing 'Gatsby,' Lee Daniels' Latest, BAM's Booed At Cannes Series and More

Even with last week's major release becoming the second highest opening weekend gross of all time and Cannes just a week away, much of this week's focus seemed to lie squarely on today's major release: Baz Luhrmann's heavily anticipated/derided "Great Gatsby" 3D extravaganza. Throughout the week, we...

A Sexy, Wild Romp You Have to See to Believe: Josephine Decker's 'Butter on the Latch'

For a lot of the singular voices in the American independent film scene -- several of whom attended the affable Maryland Film Festival this week, where short films and discoveries take center stage -- things are rough. In conversations with a few attendees, I heard candid admissions about the challe...

'Sightseers' Proves Ben Wheatley's Mastery of the Horror-Comedy Formula

British filmmaker Ben Wheatley has earned a following on the genre film festival circuit for a pair of distinctive movies with two very different moods. His 2009 debut "Down Terrace" followed a family of criminals through a series of amusing misadventures, suggesting Wheatley's proclivity for enlive...