The Good, Bad, and Good (But Upsetting) Films from Cannes

Yay for deserving films (and sequels) getting the validation of distributors fighting for the rights.

I'm still surprised that Emily Browning's next movie after Sucker Punch -- where she plays a college student who becomes an unorthodox prostitute -- is getting so much praise. Not that I doubt the director's ability, but Browning's character, who takes a drug to sleep while men have their way with her, seems rather passive. Yet the film is being called "erotic" and "creepy" (in the good way, I presume).

Woody Allen's latest film, a time-traveling romance set in the City of Love, is being called "surreal" and "narratively ambitious": Engaged Owen Wilson wanders the streets of Paree, only to slip into 1920s Paris, where he also falls for Marion Cotillard.

Annapura Pictures beat out Lionsgate to snag the rights to at least two more Terminator films, with Fast Five director Justin Lin as well as original star Arnold Schwarzenegger attached.

The Weinstein Co. announced that they would buy the rights to Meryl Streep's as-yet unfinished biopic in which she plays British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. You can bet that after The King's Speech's Best Picture win, the Weinstein brothers are going to push this down a similar path.

Flops, failures, underwhelming pieces from talented directors. That's the way the cookie -- er, madeleine -- crumbles in France.

Gus Van Sant's romance is bittersweet and Zen-like at times, but mostly the message is smothered by an emo, mopey tone.

Not flat-out awful, but dull and completely expected. It seems that the Pirates films can't delight us anymore.

To be fair, news only broke of this, but people don't seem to be too jazzed: Katie Holmes and Chace Crawford play two people who meet randomly and have an instant attraction... only to realize that she used to be his babysitter. I saw Crawford on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and was surprised at his comedic range, so there's a chance he could elevate this. For now, the response seems to be "meh."

It's high-end porn, it's 3-D, it broke Avatar's opening weekend box office record in Hong Kong... Why is this movie at Cannes?!

You should probably see these, either because they're really well done but depressing, or because they're horrifying but will be water cooler talk for the next few months.

Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly play the parents of a high school shooter struggling in the aftermath, where their psychotic son manipulates the father and torments the mother, who also has to deal with the hatred of the victims' families. Critics reported being intensely uncomfortable and devastated after the screenings, but that the movie, based on Lionel Shriver's book, is incredible.

This documentary, directed by Lily Allen's dad Keith, postulates that Princess Diana was murdered by the Royal Family. What's most shocking, however, is that the doc will include a graphic black-and-white photo of the dead Diana being taken out of the crashed Mercedes; the photo has never been shown publicly in the UK.

In an alternate universe, the Nazis escaped to the moon before the end of World War II -- and now they're coming back to reclaim Earth. You can't miss this one.

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