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The story of my festival-going life tends to be that I miss the one film that winds up on everyone’s lips. It’s some kind of uncanny anti-radar...

Helen Mirren for the ultimate win.  The Queen? Not so much, unless she’s ill, of course.  Mirren won the Oscar, among many other awards, for her...

Invariably, those of us who attend the fest count the days back home until we depart, then about three quarters of the way through we start counting the...

JC Chandor’s Oscar-nominated screenplay, Margin Call, took him ten years to write. It is a deliberate, careful study of what it takes for a man to survive...

Nicolas Winding Refn’s follow-up to Drive takes him farther away from traditional narrative and deeper into abstract expressionism. His painter’s...