As we'll never know what film was denied winning the Palme d'Or over the weekend at the never-happened 2020 Cannes Film Festival — likely due to a caged bat in a Chinese market — this is as good a time as any to size up some of the films that, deserving or not, have won the coveted gold trophy in the 64 years of the…

Whales can be seen spouting offshore, wildlife is coming back, the sea is loaded with fish and dolphins are cavorting in the port of Toulouse. But the movies screens of Cannes are empty at a time when the film world's attention is normally fixated on the cascade of cinema that annually overtakes the South of France in…

He's holed up at his home like everyone else, but two-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarritu has been busy for the last six months restoring his first feature film, Amores Perros, on the occasion of its 20th birthday. The film won the Prize of the Critic’s Week at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. At a…

Editors’ Note: Todd McCarthy recently wrote about his layoff from The Hollywood Reporter. To commemorate the sense of collective loss we all feel for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival that would have started tomorrow but had to be scratched for safety reasons like everything else because of the COVID-19 pandemic, McCarthy…

Editor’s Note: The sad unraveling of THR continues with tonight’s exit of Todd McCarthy, who was let go along with several other reporters and editors. After growing up at Daily Variety with him, I would say that McCarthy is a critic in the mold of Roger Ebert. I invoke Ebert because like him, McCarthy’s reviews exuded…