Critic's Notebook
Cannes Keeps Its Traditions, Including Its Boos
Though on alert, the film festival has maintained form in jeering some films, like Sean Penn’s “The Last Face,” and lauding others, like Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson.”
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CreditDaniel McFadden/Warner Bros. Entertainment Review: ‘The Nice Guys’ Pairs Gosling and Crowe as Slapstick Detectives
Shane Black’s convoluted caper blends pop-culture riffs from the ’70s with a zany mix of mistaken identity, nudity and grisly murders.
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CreditJon Pack/Sony Pictures Classics Review: In ‘Maggie’s Plan,’ Greta Gerwig Aspires to Motherhood on Her Terms
This film, the fifth from Rebecca Miller, stars Ms. Gerwig as a millennial who, on the way to finding a sperm donor, falls for a part-time professor.
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CreditM. Osterreicher/ESPN Films Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall
This ESPN documentary extends the narrative beyond the O.J. Simpson murder trial, as a biography and a history of race, fame, sports and Los Angeles.
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CreditSundance Selects Review: Anthony D. Weiner’s Self-Destruction Is a Documentary’s Focus
This portrait examines the troubled career of a New York politician and the sexting scandals that brought him down.
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CreditZade Rosenthal/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures The Superhero Franchise: Where Traditional Movie Stardom Goes to Die
Once, we liked Hollywood actors who owned their myth. Now a franchise owns it.
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CreditDaniel McFadden/The Weinstein Company ‘The Founder,’ Like Ray Kroc, Feasts on McDonald’s Imagery
The movie uses McDonald’s well-guarded iconography for a bold visual tour of the chain’s early days, but treads lightly in its promotional material.
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CreditChang W. Lee/The New York Times No Direction, No Restriction: D.A. Pennebaker Looks Back at a Dylan Documentary
The filmmaker reflects on the creation of “Dont Look Back,” filmed during Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour of England, which is the subject of a new exhibition.
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CreditChuck Zlotnick/Universal Studios Review: ‘Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising’ Has an Animal House for the Fairer Sex
Nicholas Stoller’s sequel to the 2014 original stars a returning Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne as a couple taking on new raucous collegians next door.
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CreditStefania Iemmi for The New York Times Celebrities Raise More Than $25 Million at amfAR’s Gala in Cannes
Fashion and film stars attended amfAR’s 23rd annual Cinema Against AIDS gala at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc during the film festival.
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CreditClemens Bilan/Getty Images Pedro Almodóvar Explains His Connection to the Panama Papers
The director says his offshore company was created not to avoid taxes but to make international deals in the years before the euro made that easier.
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CreditEmily Berl for The New York Times Why the Movie ‘Neruda’ Is an ‘Anti-Bio’
The Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín says that even after copious research, he still doesn’t know who Pablo Neruda was: “He’s ungrabbable.”
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CreditRebecca Marshall for The New York Times Vanity Fair’s Party at Cannes
The Vanity Fair party in celebration of the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
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CreditTristan Fewings/Getty Images A Word With: Steven Spielberg
The director, in Cannes with “The BFG,” discusses the original author’s anti-Semitism and explains why “Jaws” remains a painful memory.
