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The following table of contents contains Chaz Ebert’s video dispatches from Cannes 2023, produced by herself and Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, and written dispatches by Ben Kenigsberg, Jason Gorber and Lisa Nesselson.  Video Dispatches: Cannes 2023...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “American Gangster””The Cable Guy””Captain Phillips””Dawn of the Dead””The Departed””Flight””Heat””A Man Called Otto””Starship Troopers””Traffic” 10 NEW TO MAX “American Honey””Black Mass””Blue Valentine””Calvary””The Conjuring””Deep Cover””Orphan””The Right Stuff””Some Like It Hot””Unbreakable” 13 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD...

Cannes loves Sean Penn, who served as the festival’s 2008 jury president. If it’s spring, and he has a movie ready, either as an actor or as a director, there’s a good chance that film is...

It’s wonderful to be back in Cannes. The return mid-COVID restrictions in 2021 held a terrific slate, but the move to July and the lack of any market screenings/events meant that it felt more than a...

RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert’s second video dispatch from the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, made with Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, features an exclusive report on the festival’s opening ceremony honoring actor Michael Douglas and the...

A skillful BDSM practitioner knows how to create the illusion of danger inside a tightly controlled experience. A similar technique fuels “Sanctuary,” a two-hander set inside a hotel room on a single night. At its best...

“Monster” does not, despite its title, see the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda making an unprecedented turn into horror territory. The first film in competition to screen at Cannes this year, this melodrama finds the filmmaker back...

Has the Fast & Furious franchise earned a victory lap? That’s the key question behind an appraisal of “Fast X,” a film that brazenly plays like a Greatest Hits collection from a hit artist. Not only...

Matthew Barney was born in Idaho in 1967 and became a star quarterback in high school. He was a Yale grad who took the New York art world by storm with his video installations, sculptures, and elaborate...

Despite concerns that something like it might happen, no one protesting changes to the French retirement age cut the power at the press screening of “Jeanne du Barry,” which opened the 76th Cannes Film Festival on...