Justin Chang

Although Alberto Barbera opted to slim down the Venice Film Festival lineup when he was appointed artistic director last year, the world's oldest international sprocket opera appears to be setting...

The ironies keep piling up alongside the dead bodies in the pacey and preposterous man-on-the-run thriller "The Prey." Gallic helmer Eric Valette ("State Affairs") invests this giddily implausible crime yarn...

Not even attempting to scale the heights of Pixar past, "Monsters University" finds Disney's toon studio operating at a pleasantly middling level of artistic achievement. Tracing the friendship of scarer-in-chief...

The apocalypse, generally seen as an occasion for sober reflection and perhaps deep despair, instead provides an excuse for ostensibly grown men to drink their own urine, kick around a...

Following "S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine" and "Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell," Rithy Panh grapples with the horrors of the Cambodian genocide on more intimately unsettling terms...

In recent years the versatile Belgian actress Yolande Moreau has appeared in serious dramas ("Seraphine") as well as absurdist comedies ("Louise Michel"), and these disparate impulses have been joined, but...

CANNES -- "Blue Is the Warmest Color," Abdellatif Kechiche's sweeping and sexually explicit drama about a French teenage girl's love affair with another woman, received the Palme d'Or at the...

CANNES -- "Blue Is the Warmest Color," Abdellatif Kechiche's sweeping and sexually explicit three-hour drama about a French teenage girl's love affair with another woman, received the Palme d'Or from...

Sarah may prefer to run, but she doesn't get anywhere particularly notable in this determinedly flat character study from debuting Quebecois writer-director Chloe Robichaud. Sophie Desmarais gives a precisely tuned...

CANNES -- Usually by this point in the Cannes Film Festival, the race for the Palme d'Or has narrowed itself down to one or two clear frontrunners. The sustained critical...