Rollo Ross, 05/23/12

Film festival guru, entertainment expert, premiere whore and sometime slayer of dragons

You might think logically that the Cannes film festival is all about films. It's not. It's substantially about brands trying to hawk their names around the festival and ensure that they are associated with the most luxurious event of the year.

Jerry Cimino, 05/23/12

Founder and curator, The Beat Museum

In life, some things are worth waiting for. Case in point: the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's seminal novel, On the Road. Purists will be elated, as the film honors Jack Kerouac and is true to his book.

Zorianna Kit, 05/23/12

www.zoriannakit.tv

The documentary pays tribute to the 25th anniversary of Graceland and chronicles Paul Simon's 2011 visit to South Africa since the '80s to reunite with the album's musicians.

Karin Badt, 05/23/12

Associate Professor of Cinema and Theater in Paris

The story of a fishmonger in Naples obsessed with the possibility of being on a Big Brother, Reality is about how easy it is for a human to become consumed by artificial dreams to the point of mental illness.

Chris Jancelewicz, 05/23/12

Lead Entertainment Editor, Huffington Post Canada

Not every third movie installment has to be abysmal, as we all saw in 2010 with the thoroughly enjoyable and heartwarming Toy Story 3. Does Men In Black 3 please or disappoint?

Karin Badt, 05/23/12

Associate Professor of Cinema and Theater in Paris

The famed Bernardo Bertolucci's new film Me and You is about a pimply alienated 14-year-old boy who lives alone with his single mom.

Dan Mecca, 05/23/12

Co-Founder and Managing Editor of The Film Stage

Unfortunately, a film without a narrative purpose feels like a shallow act, and soon enough watching purposeless characters continue down that road over and over becomes tiresome.

Hugh Howey, 05/23/12

Author, WOOL

Ridley Scott. One of the few directors whose name alone can sell tickets. A legend in his own time. And now he's negotiating for the rights to my self-published book.

Raffi Asdourian, 05/23/12

TV/Commercial/Film editor; Writer, thefilmstage.com

Pablo Larraín has achieved something spectacularly unique with No, his beta-max rendition of the 1988 referendum vote in Chile concerning dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Marshall Fine, 05/23/12

Author and film critic, hollywoodandfine.com

Morgan Spurlock's topic is masculinity, masculine vanity and where they intersect. He breaks it down mostly by varieties of body hair: the hair on your head mustaches, beards, body hair and the notion of the metrosexual.

Bernard-Henri Lévy, 05/23/12

French philosopher and writer

I can see myself, talking about one of those books of life, a source of sustenance for young people refusing the inevitability of an timid existence, one somehow cracked or just rocked softly into precocious old age, a book like a bible, a treatise on savoir-vivre for the use of future generations, Jack Kerouac's On the Road.

Jason Apuzzo, 05/22/12

Filmmaker, Co-Editor of Libertas Film Magazine

Although Universal's new film Battleship just capsized at the box office, it's still a perfect excuse to take a look at the top 10 naval warfare movies of all-time.

Jonathan Kim, 05/22/12

Film Critic for ReThink Reviews, the Uprising Show, What the Flick?!

The Dictator is further proof that it's important to laugh at tyrants, not just fear and hate them. The problem is that this doesn't necessarily make for a great movie.

Carole Mallory, 05/23/12

Actress; Journalist; Flim Critic, malloryhollywoodeast,blogspot.com

Agent J must travel back in time to 1969 to rescue Agent K and the Universe from Boris's diabolical plot (a young Agent J, played with amazing accuracy by Josh Brolin who mimics Tommy Lee Jones' austere yet humorous delivery).