GREAT
Mr. Turner, Mike Leigh (review at Vanity Fair)
Two Days, One Night, Dardennes Brothers (review at Vanity Fair)
Foxcatcher, Bennet Miller (review at Film.com)
Breathe (Respire), Melanie Laurent
Self-Made, Shira Geffen (review at Vanity Fair)
Saint Laurent, Bertrand Bonello (review at Film.com)
Les Combattants, Thomas Cailley
Mommy, Xavier Dolan (review at Badass Digest)
GOOD
Lost River, Ryan Gosling (review at Film.com)
It Follows, David Robert Mitchell (review at Badass Digest)
Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg (review at Film.com)
Wild Tales, Damian Szifron (review at Badass Digest)
Party Girl, Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis
Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan (review at Vanity Fair)
Red Army, Gabe Polsky
Queen and Country, John Boorman
The Tribe, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy (review at Badass Digest)
Leviathan, Andrei Zvagintsev
Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas (review at Vanity Fair.)
Pride (review at Vanity Fair.)
NOT GOOD
Grace of Monaco, Oliver Dahan (review at Vanity Fair)
The Rover, David Michod (review at Film.com)
The Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones (review at Film.com)
How To Train Your Dragon 2, Dean DuBois (review at Film.com)
Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako
That Lovely Girl, Keren Yedaya
Goodbye To Language, Jean-Luc Godard
AWFUL
The Captive, Atom Egoyan (review at Vanity Fair)
WALKOUTS
(A walkout isn’t necessarily “awful,” but “Oh, God, my ass is killing me, I don’t need to be here & I want to leave,” ya dig?)
Coming Home, Zhang Yimou
Snow In Paradise, Andrew Hulme
The Kindergarten Teacher, Nadav Lapid (**note: not a “this is bad” walkout, but a “this is interesting, but I am exhausted, haven’t eaten all day and have to leave, I’ll catch the last 45 minutes some other day” walkout.)
REACTIONS
The crowd response to Olivier Dahan and Nicole Kidman (at Mashable)
The crowd response to Ryan Golsing and Christina Hendricks (at Mashable)
Cannes 2104 recap (at Mashable)
Was Cannes 2014 Good For The Jews? (Times of Israel)
PODCAST
Me on a podcast with Anne Thompson, Eric Kohn & Allison Willmore (at Daily Buzz.)
