Peter Debruge

Apart from the surly old bandit referred to by the film's title, nearly all the characters of import in Tommy Lee Jones' "The Homesman" are women. Some, like the hardy...

Aggression, not affection, sparks romance in "Les Combattants," a promising feature debut that already had members of the French film establishment touting newcomer Thomas Cailley as the next big thing...

If you think training Vikings to coexist with dragons sounds tough, try following up an iconic coming-of-age story within the halls of a publicly traded animation studio. The pressures to...

One year after sharing the Palme d'Or for her debut, "Blue Is the Warmest Color," French actress Adele Exarchopoulos returns to Cannes, this time playing a tiny supporting role in...

Shot in South Africa, but set somewhere on the lawless American frontier, "The Salvation" answers that great unasked question of how a Western might sound with a Danish accent. In...

With their preference for world premieres, Cannes programmers are extremely selective about the films they select from the Sundance film festival -- which makes it all the more unique that...

Within the oeuvre of DreamWorks Animation, "How to Train Your Dragon" was anything but typical. So when the film went on to earn nearly half a billion dollars, director Dean...

An engrossing look at the way a young woman of color defines her own identity vis-a-vis the various spheres of support in her life -- family, school, friends and so...

It is the voice -- lilting, lightly French-accented -- that one notices first, even before fully registering the famous face. You notice it because, in the movies, Marion Cotillard so...

Someone should tell Warner Bros. that when they've got a presence as big as Godzilla, they don't need movie stars, because frankly, who remembers the characters in a rampaging-kaiju movie...