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Midnights have become an unusual program at Cannes, especially as genre titles have broken free from the containment of the late-night program and popped in places like Un Certain Regard (“Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma”), Cannes Premieres...

“The Birthday Party,” the penultimate film in this year’s Competition Program (followed only by “The Dreamed Adventure”) premiered Friday night to a press screening that drowned out an initial wave of tepid applause with louder boos. It’s that time...

The latest adult animated comedy on Netflix will work significantly better for fans of “Big Mouth” than those who never took to the streaming giant’s hit animated series about horny teenagers and the literal monsters that shape their lives....

If the response to the competition has been muted thus far, then the immense quality of the sidebars has more than made up for it. Critics’ Week is one such sidebar, and this dispatch includes three works that are...

The easy shorthand for how to describe Netflix’s “The Boroughs” is that it’s like “Stranger Things” with walkers instead of bicycles, and that’s not just because of the foundational similarities in its plotting. The score, the credits font, and...

“The Man I Love” brings the director Ira Sachs to competition for the second time, after “Frankie” in 2019. It’s the sort of film that might sound familiar in a description, butit’s made with such detail and care that...

If, as is suggested early in Ron Howard’s documentary “Avedon,” the genius of an archetypal Richard Avedon photograph lies in how it strips away everything extraneous—so that nothing remains but the audience, the subject, and a white background—then making...

This year’s Ebert Fellows attended the True/False Film Festival, one of the most essential non-fiction cinema events of the year. Here are their reports:PAIGE TERNADO“To really make a film like this, you have to ignore every commercial model that...

Boots Riley is one of the few American filmmakers who are most visibly invested in conversations about class, capitalism, and aesthetics in their works. He pushes each subject to the point of breaking in absurdist works whose visual ambition...