Michael Haneke

Fast & Furious & Elegant: Justin Lin and the Vulgar Auteurs

The Big Wedding is vile, racist, and embarrassing

Robert DeNiro, Diane Keaton do themselves an injustice in misguided comedy

Amour embraces the coldness of death

Michael Haneke's latest juxtaposes a cinematic memento mori against horrors of human condition

2012 Film Critics' Poll

The critics' picks from best film to best performers

Craig Zobel on the making of Compliance

The director documents sexual degradation, with humanity

Film Highlight: The White Ribbon

Three critics, one list: Ten best films of 2009

Inglorious Basterds, A Serious Man, Up make great impressions

Celebrity Justice

A journalist and TV starlet play nasty head games in the smart, subtle Interview by Steve Buscemi

A stasi snoop is the hero of Lives of Others

The Terror Within

'Caché (Hidden)' uncovers our accountability

Love and Death

Woody Allen delivers a wicked serve in 'Match Point'

The Year in Film 2005

Artists of the Year

Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

Our Summer of Disaster

Hollywood's trilogy of terror frightened the blockbuster into art

Cannes's Killer Movies

Competition was brutal at the world's most cutthroat film festival

We Heart Huckabees!

The Everything Movie lands on all four of our film critics' top 10 lists

A Sheep In Wolf's Clothing

Michael Haneke's new film is noble--and that's a good thing

Say What?

The Venice Film Festival gives voice to the global cacophony

Atrocity Exhibition

The Walker confers auteur status on Tokyo bad boy Takashi Miike

Oh, The Gaul!

Rancorous "Anti-Americanism" reigns at the 56th Cannes Film Festival

Roman À Clef

A 12-film series, "Cinema of Claustrophobia," gives us the real Polanski

The Plaisir Principle

Or, Cannes 2001: How to love the movies without hating yourself

Killing Joke

The Austrian film Funny Games homes in on the meaning--and meaninglessness--of horror

Inspecting the Cannes

In its 50th year, is the world's most prestigious film festival showing its age?