It is not the first time that we are privy to Sofia Coppola's obsession with conspicuous consumption--take her previous film Marie Antoinette--but her new film The Bling Ring has materialism as its very subject, to the point that consumer goods are filmed...

It begins with a shot of two men swiping up bundles of cash -- ah, Money! -- and the plot goes on from there: Im Sang-soo's The Taste of Money is the story of an extremely wealthy South Korean family and the sterile claustrophobic life they lead in their super-modern...

Warning: This post contains spoilers about Moonrise Kingdom.

Eight thousand people cheered the premiere of Wes Anderson's new film, Moonrise Kingdom this week at Cannes, appreciating the imaginative journey into the world of a boy and girl who escape their alienating home environments to discover love on an island. The...

Jacques Audiard's new film Rust and Bone starts with urgent energy, conveyed with the sound of brisk footsteps, as a man moves down a sidewalk in southern France. More rushed sounds follow: the same man on a train with his son as both rip into their lunch with gusto. No...