'Behind the Candelabra' (2013) Movie Review - Cannes Film Festival
- by Brad Brevet 8 Comments
- Posted May 21st 2013 at 3:25 AM
Michael Douglas and Matt Damon are extraordinary in Behind the Candelabra as Steven Soderbergh brings us the story of Liberace in a story that's equally dark, humorous and touching.
Read the Review'As I Lay Dying' (2013) Movie Review - Cannes Film Festival
- by Brad Brevet 3 Comments
- Posted May 20th 2013 at 3:03 PM
With As i Lay Dying, James Franco delivers some fascinating visual elements, but in the end I didn't much care for the film, but I respected the effort.
Read the Review'Shield of Straw' (2013) Movie Review - Cannes Film Festival
- by Brad Brevet 5 Comments
- Posted May 20th 2013 at 12:00 PM
For a filmmaker like Miike, Shield of Straw (Wara No Tate) should be looked at as an embarrassment. A film made up of D-level action movie cliches with a poorly written script is no way to make an appearance in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
Read the Review'Blood Ties' (2013) Movie Review - Cannes Film Festival
- by Brad Brevet 4 Comments
- Posted May 19th 2013 at 11:30 AM
Blood Ties is too big for its own good. Director and co-writer Guiilaume Canet simply runs out of running time and while he does a great job establishing his characters there simply isn't enough room for them to breathe in a film that work far better as a television series than a 144-minute film.
Read the Review'Seduced and Abandoned' (2013) Movie Review - Cannes Film Festival
- by Brad Brevet 5 Comments
- Posted May 19th 2013 at 9:00 AM
James Toback and Alec Baldwin had an idea for a film and they took it to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in search of funding, Seduced and Abandoned is the result of their search and it's yet another eye-opening look at how the films you see today first found their footing.
Read the Review'Inside Llewyn Davis' (2013) Movie Review - Cannes Film Festival
- by Brad Brevet 46 Comments
- Posted May 18th 2013 at 3:04 PM
If ever there was an art film open to the masses this may be the one. The Coens have nailed mood, character and atmosphere with Inside Llewyn Davis and I dare anyone to watch it and not come away with at least a little something to appreciate if not a whole bag full of things to love and talk about.
Read the Review'Jimmy P.' (2013) Movie Review - Cannes Film Festival
- by Brad Brevet 3 Comments
- Posted May 18th 2013 at 10:30 AM
I truly believe Jimmy P. could have been great had it lost its clinical approach to telling its story and opened itself up a little and let us further into Jimmy's life as something lived rather than something remembered.
Read the Review'The Congress' (2013) Movie Review - Cannes Film Festival
- by Brad Brevet 4 Comments
- Posted May 18th 2013 at 9:30 AM
Ari Folman has been working on The Congress for about five years now and it seems the delay in bringing his adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's short story to the big screen is a result of not being able to bring it all together in a cohesive package.
Read the Review'The Past' (2013) Movie Review - Cannes Film Festival
- by Brad Brevet 8 Comments
- Posted May 17th 2013 at 1:16 PM
Asghar Farhadi has more than lived up to expectations following A Separation. The Past (Le Passe) is an absolute knockout with a fantastic screenplay and five of the best performances you'll see all year.
Read the Review'Jeune et Jolie' (2013) Movie Review - Cannes Film Festival
- by Brad Brevet 7 Comments
- Posted May 17th 2013 at 10:00 AM
Francois Ozon has manipulated the narrative situations in which Jeune et Jolie is set, it's neearly impossible to take much, if anything, away from it.
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