Cannes

Spike Lee’s anti-Trump masterpiece: ‘This film is a wake-up call’

BlacKkKlansman is a ground-breaking film for the America First era that lays down a Black Panther gauntlet on the doorstep of Donald Trump

Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund won Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or for The Square

And the Palme d’Or goes to . . . a Swedish satire

The Square, Diane Kruger and Joaquin Phoenix take home prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Day 1: Woody Allen, Xavier Dolan (déja vu!) & what’s hot*

*Not Donald Sutherland! Longtime Maclean’s film critic Brian D. Johnson on the Cannes Film Festival’s highlights—and opening day’s oddball moments

Photo gallery: Cannes, Day 7

Scenes from the red carpet at the annual film festival

Photo gallery: Cannes, Day 2

Scenes from the red carpet at the annual film festival

Photo gallery: Cannes, Day 1

Scenes from the red carpet at the annual film festival

Blown away by Xavier Dolan’s ‘Mommy’

Brian D. Johnson on Quebec’s enfant terrible

TIFF, the Enigma Machine

Brian D. Johnson recaps a festival defined by binge-watching, urban oases, and the craving to find film magic

Cannes gives Golden Palm to ‘Winter Sleep’

Xavier Dolan takes bronze, and Julianne Moore wins best actress for Cronenberg’s ‘Maps to the Stars’

When the scenery chews back

How landscape upstaged the actors in Cannes

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Actress! Actress! Female performances ruled Cannes

As the competition wraps, we rate the hits and misses, and weigh the odds on the Palme d’Or

The Gospel according to Tarantino

“Digital projection is the death of cinema as I know it. I don’t need to go and watch television in public.”