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Café de flore: After his restrained fling with British royalty (2009’s The Young Victoria ), Quebec director Jean-Marc Vallée...

Footnote: Israeli director Joseph Cedar brings remarkable zest to a tale of two Talmudic scholars, a father and son whose rivalry...

The Ides of March: It’s this year’s Social Network —a smart backroom intrigue about diabolical ambition, dirty tricks and...

Melancholia: Lars Von Trier just could help kicking over the Cannes sand castle. And the media scandale of his "I’m a Nazi"...

This is Not A Film: Smuggled out of Iran for its Cannes premiere, this clandestine self-portrait of a banned filmmaker plays as an...

The Artist: Finally a French movie that needs no subtitles. This silent black-and-white romcom was the biggest crowd-pleaser in...

Le Havre: The failure of this gem to win a prize was widely considered to be the most egregious omission by Robert De Niro’s...

Pariah: It’s not surprising that this spirited first feature by American director Dee Rees made a splash at Sundance, where it won...

Drive : Ryan Gosling nails his first action role. He plays a stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver, and stumbles into a...

Lucky: Here’s another tale of an abandoned boy, a Dickensian odyssey about a 10-year-old Zulu orphan who flees his South African...