Steve Carell

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

Our movie critic in Cannes rounds up his latest viewing

Brian D. Johnson on what to see this weekend

How will Steve Carell’s replacement fit in?

What will ‘The Office’ be like without Steve Carell?

Yeah, I got a little misty/teary/bleary at Steve Carell’s last episode of The Office as a regular. I have a respect for Greg Daniels that borders on the superstitious, but it usually pays off; I expected this episode to be good and, except for some of Will Ferrell’s scenes (we may know more about this once he’s written off the show, but it’s hard to know exactly what Ferrell’s been going for, and the tag was really not the kind of thing to convince us that the show can go on without Carell), my expectations were fulfilled. The tricky balance between Michael as he would be in real life vs. Michael the beloved sitcom character was well handled, leaning more to the escapist side of things – which is fine, since the show long ago became the story of people who find a certain refuge in the office, not people who are tormented by having to be there.

Best-of-2010 lists have been filling the entertainment pages of my recent morning papers (yes, I still read the paper on paper, preferably newsprint manufactured with a large proportion of long-fibred northern spruce pulp, which renders it less susceptible to tearing) and, I figure, why not play along? So:

The one good thing about ‘Date Night’ is the pairing of Tina Fey and Steve Carell

For Steve Carell and Tina Fey, their Canadian director is more than just a matchmaker

Newsmakers of the week

Three decades after his assassination, Harvey Milk escapes Oliver Stone, and gets his due

This weekend marks a showdown between two goofy Hollywood comedies about mild-mannered bozos endowed with extravagantly fake professional lives: Get Smart and The Love Guru. Aside from offering a choice between a spy who uses a shoe phone and a self-help pundit who glides around on a motorized hassock, these two movies present two distinct options: smart or dumb.