Movies

On a recent summery Saturday evening in Chicago, moviegoers had the opportunity to take in any number of current releases, from “Michael” to “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” from “Obsession” to “The Sheep Detectives.” There were even some limited...

While we try to divide and conquer a large amount of the Cannes program, including every one of the Competition titles, the scheduling inevitably leads to situations where a writer on this team sees something that was assigned elsewhere....

Daniel Roher’s breakout documentary “Navalny,” revolving around Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and events related to his poisoning, earned the filmmaker his first Academy Award. But what happens, when you have reached the pinnacle of success right out the...

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...