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‘Scary Movie’ tops box office, slaying ‘Masters of the Universe’ and adding to low-budget streak

The summer box office is booming — but not because of the usual suspects. After three weeks of indie horror dominance at the box office, the slasher spoof “Scary Movie” topped ticket sales with $55 million over the weekend, easily besting the far-from-mighty “Masters of the Universe.”

 

Movie Review: Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas hit the right notes in ‘Power Ballad’

From “Sing Street” to “Flora and Son,” writer-director John Carney has made unabashedly earnest tales where a song changes lives.

 

★★★★

Wim Wenders pulls 1975 film over nude scene with then-13-year-old Nastassja Kinski

The filmmaker Wim Wenders has pulled his 1975 movie “The Wrong Move” due to a nude scene featuring a then-13-year-old Nastassja Kinski.

 

Steven Spielberg on his faith in alien life, the future of the movies and the power of empathy

Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” returns Hollywood’s preeminent big-screen craftsman to one of his most abiding questions: Are we alone?

 

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Movie Review: ‘Backrooms’ goes from internet meme to the big screen

What evil lurks in the drabbest of interiors? The meme-rooted “Backrooms” is the latest movie to pull its mounting horrors out of liminal spaces.

 

★★★★

Norway-set drama about political polarization ‘Fjord’ wins Palme d’Or at Cannes

Cristian Mungiu’s Norway-set drama about political polarization “Fjord” has won the Palme d’Or. The Cannes Film Festival’s top honor on Saturday went for the second time to the Romanian director of “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.”

 

Bruce Dern takes a bow at the Cannes Film Festival with a new documentary on his life

Bruce Dern had to play the long game. Acting has always been an endurance sport for the 89-year-old actor and avid marathon runner.

 

Maika Monroe, much more than ‘Scream Queen,’ returns to Cannes

After years spent fleeing serial killers and worse, Maika Monroe is on the offensive. In the Cannes Film Festival entry “Victorian Psycho,” she plays a deranged governess.

 

Rami Malek explores art, love and death in Ira Sachs’ Cannes entry ‘The Man I Love’

In Ira Sachs’ 1980s-set drama “The Man I Love,” Rami Malek finds the most well-tailored role since his Oscar-winning turn in “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

 

‘Once Upon a Time in Harlem’ has its day at the Cannes Film Festival, 50 years after it was shot

No movie at the Cannes Film Festival has had a longer road to get here than “Once Upon a Time in Harlem.”

 

‘Minotaur,’ about murder and corruption in Putin’s Russia, jolts the Cannes Film Festival

Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev sent shock waves through the Cannes Film Festival with a soberly damning crime film about murder and corruption in Russia.

 

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Ryusuke Hamaguchi makes gentle, quiet, long films. And he might win the Palme d’Or

The Cannes Film Festival is not a place that’s conducive to taking your time. Festivalgoers rush frantically between screenings.

 

Tool or threat? Cannes Film Festival grapples with the rise of AI

The Cannes Film Festival can function like a global water cooler for movies, with prevailing issues and anxieties of the industry tending to surface at the event.

 

Cannes standout ‘Paper Tiger’ reveals a new side to Miles Teller

One of only two American films competing for the Palme d’Or, James Gray’s “Paper Tiger” has been one of the standouts of this year’s Cannes.

 

The breathless Korean sci-fi monster movie ‘Hope’ leaves the Cannes Film Festival floored

Sprawling action movies with aliens do not generally compete for the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. But Na Hong-jin’s “Hope” is not your average science fiction.

 

In Cannes standout ‘Fatherland,’ Sandra Hüller stuns again

The full range of Sandra Hüller’s talent is on full display this year in four films that run from big to small.

 

Steven Soderbergh used AI in a documentary about John Lennon. And he wants to talk about it

The day John Lennon was shot in 1980, he and Yoko Ono gave an interview to a San Francisco radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments.

 

Jane Schoenbrun’s queer slasher movie ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ jolts Cannes

A bold, bloody queer slasher film starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson gave the Cannes Film Festival a gonzo jolt.

 

Cannes and the Hôtel Martinez await a ‘White Lotus’ close-up

As many actors are appearing at the Cannes Film Festival this week, the best role in town might be a little further down the Croisette.

 

20 years after a 22-minute ovation, Guillermo del Toro and ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ return to Cannes

Twenty years ago, Guillermo del Toro premiered “Pan’s Labyrinth” at the Cannes Film Festival. He went in anxious.

 

The Cannes Film Festival has started. Here are 5 things that happened on its first day

The 79th Cannes Film Festival has kicked off. Tuesday marked the start of 12 days of nonstop premieres that will culminate on May 23 with the presentation of the prestigious Palme d’Or prize.

 

Peter Jackson receives honorary Palme D’Or as Cannes flaunts star power despite Hollywood’s retreat

The 79th Cannes Film Festival is underway with politics, artificial intelligence and the shifting priorities of Hollywood taking center stage at the global film gathering.

 

Neon, winner of 6 straight Palmes d’Or, comes into the Cannes Film Festival an unlikely heavyweight

It’s one of the most unparalleled streaks in movies. At the last six Cannes Film Festivals, Neon has won the festival’s prestigious top award, the Palme d’Or.

 

The most anticipated movies of the Cannes Film Festival

For 12 days this week, the eyes of the movie world will be on the Cannes Film Festival. The Cote d’Azur spectacular that starts Tuesday will play host to some of the most anticipated movies of the year in a constant parade of glamorous red carpets and megawatt premieres.

 

Movie Review: In ‘The Sheep Detectives,’ the private eyes have wool over their eyes

Like “Shaun the Sheep,” “The Sheep Detectives” takes place in the verdant English countryside and concerns barnyard animals with higher-than-usual IQs.

 

★★★★

In a low period for comedy films, these were the best of the last decade

The last decade has not been good for big-screen comedies. Hollywood studios nearly stopped making them. Horror became the in vogue genre. Laughs were out.

 

Ten years later, the cult of ‘The Nice Guys’ keeps growing

When “The Nice Guys” debuted 10 years ago, the writing was on the wall for the big-screen comedy. It came out sandwiched between “Captain America: Civil War” and “X-Men: Apocalypse.”

 

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Demi Moore, Chloé Zhao, Stellan Skarsgård among Cannes Film Festival jurors

Demi Moore, Chloé Zhao and Stellan Skarsgård are among the jurors who will decide the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, organizers announced Monday.

 

Movie Review: ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2' still has style but the story is overdressed

The second “Devil Wears Prada” plays out a bit like a fashion world “Succession,” with better clothes and a lot less cursing, writes Associated Press Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review.

 

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‘Michael’ moonwalks to $97 million opening, shattering record for music biopics

“Michael,” the big-budget Michael Jackson spectacle, shrugged off bad reviews and a troubled production to launch with $97 million in U.S. and Canada theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday, shattering a record debut for music biopics.

 

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