Those concerned that a 2 1/2 hour movie titled “Biutiful” might bear some of the attributes typically characterized as “pretentious” will not be reassured by the opening, whispered dialogue, with the ...

Two weeks after winning Mexico’s foreign-language Oscar nomination, Alejandro Inarritu’s “Biutiful” opened the Morelia Film Festival on Saturday with helmer and Palm d’Or-winning topper Javier Bardem ...

I ran into another New York film critic last night. I said that this doesn’t seem to be a very good Cannes. Her answer was, “No masterpieces so far.” The closest is, according to many journalists here ...