Festival

May 14, 2018 — A dance party gets way, way out of hand.

May 14, 2018 — Few critics come to the defense of this story of an all-female Kurdish combat unit.

May 13, 2018 — It was decades ago, during one of the bitterest Montreal winters of his youth, that the acclaimed author and essayist Adam Gopnik had one of the experiences that made him a cinephile for life. The movie theater right down the street from...

May 12, 2018 — An urgent dispatch from the conflict in eastern Ukraine is winning plaudits from critics.

May 12, 2018 — Critics are split over this Egyptian road movie, the only debut feature in competition.

May 10, 2018 — The followup to Mrs. Fang is an oral history of China’s “Anti-Rightist Campaign” in the late 1950s.

May 9, 2018 — The first film from Kenya in Cannes’s Official Selection has already been banned at home.

May 9, 2018 — Cannes’s Opening Night film is met with a first round of lukewarm reviews.

May 8, 2018 — Horror movies are often understood as products of the imagination, but in the case of Caroline Monnet and Daniel Watchorn’s work, the conventions of the genre are grounded in stories of real-life injustice. Set in a Canadian residential school for...

May 7, 2018 — And it’s May ’68 all over again in New York, D.C., and London. Plus Bergman in L.A., Tarkovsky in San Sebastián, and more.