Peter Debruge

The laff list is locked. Variety has chosen its 10 Comics to Watch for 2014. Selected by a team of Variety editors based on extensive polling of the professional comedy...

Over the past two decades, Australian director Rolf de Heer has premiered four films in Cannes: "The Quiet Room" (1986), "Dance Me to My Song" (1998), "Ten Canoes" (2006) and...

Doris Payne doesn't look like a jewel thief. No matter how you picture such scammers, it doesn't jell with the elegant 80-year-old black woman who stands trial at the outset...

French director Olivier Assayas likes his leading ladies unpredictable and punk, crafting wild pipe-bomb thrillers to suit the feral energy of muses such as Maggie Cheung ("Irma Vep"), Chloe Sevigny...

If Canadian director Xavier Dolan's debut, "I Killed My Mother," served as the petulant revenge of a misunderstood son upon the single mom who raised him, then his unexpectedly self-effacing...

The director of "Excalibur" and "Deliverance," John Boorman was first invited to Cannes in 1970 with the film "Leo the Last," for which he won the director prize. His latest...

Set in the most romantic city on earth yet almost entirely confined to a Hilton hotel adjacent to Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, Pascale Ferran's "Bird People" reveals itself as...

After a series of deliberately difficult art films, Spanish director Jaime Rosales' "Beautiful Youth" feels almost conventional, apart from two long segments in which major events in the lives of...

An avalanche seems like the right metaphor for trouble that starts small, gathers momentum and ultimately threatens to wipe out the peaceful balance of a posh Scandi couple's ski vacation...

At a certain point in their careers, nearly all aspiring actors in Hollywood are "waiters": They wait tables, they wait for callbacks, they wait for that moment when they become...