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Critical Dialogue: The Bling Ring

By Max Nelson
June 18, 2013
Is Sofia Coppola's latest a reflective meditation or a wealthy teenage wasteland?

Review: A Hijacking

By Jonathan Robbins
June 17, 2013
Drama on the high seas! But is it ship-shape?

Interview: Marco Bellocchio

By Max Nelson
June 12, 2013
The acclaimed director of Dormant Beauty, Fists in the Pocket, and Vincere discusses faith and the question of judgment in his work

Review: This Is The End

By Max Kyburz
June 11, 2013
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad end of the world

Review: In the Fog

By Aaron Light
June 10, 2013
The Nazi occupation tale reveals the lighter side of Belorussian director Sergei Loznitsa—relatively speaking

Review: Wish You Were Here

By Max Nelson
June 5, 2013
Kieran Darcy-Smith's carefully calibrated debut about a friend gone missing is very accomplished, which might not be a good thing

Interview: Peter Strickland

By Violet Lucca
June 4, 2013
Inside the world of Berberian Sound Studio with its film- and music-besotted director

Rep Diary: Robert Aldrich and Burt Lancaster

By Nick Pinkerton
May 31, 2013
Behind the über-masculine collaboration that spawned a ferocious history of the West in Apache, Vera Cruz, and Ulzana’s Raid

Cannes by Koehler: The Owners & Ate ver a luz

By Robert Koehler
May 31, 2013
The politics of looking through the eyes of another, in this final dispatch

Review: Shadow Dancer

By Jared Eisenstat
May 30, 2013
James Marsh’s restrained IRA thriller puts people above politics—even if its characters don’t