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#10. Play - Ruben Östlund (Cannes 2011) Riveting, harrowing, infuriating. Never has adolescent bullying and manipulation been so watchably mundane. Östlund has clearly got this meandering realism down to a T; applying it to a clearer form and purpose has its ups and downs in comparison to his previous, more free-form film, Involuntary. Borrows, and expands on, the better moments of Haneke's Code Unknown, which is to say: he understands the depressing impossibility of inter-cultural unity.

It was shut out by the jury members at this year's festival, but Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In topped call films in...

In give or take 364 days from now, the 65th edition of the Cannes film festival will be upon us. I know it's absurd, but there are some bonafide films in the works from some Cannes vets and according to these prognostications I supply below, we'll have one more heavyweight event with the possible participation from the likes of Abbas Kiarostami, Olivier Assayas, Paul Thomas Anderson and Hou Hsiao Hsien being joined by recent Palme d'Or winners (2008 and 2009) Laurent Cantet and Michael Haneke.

Thierry Frémaux finally got his wish (to show The Tree of Life) and now, he can return the gift to Malick with the Palme...

Easter weekend's selections are admittedly wafer thin, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't partake in any blessed offerings. Why there's a trinity of films that should appeal to a mass audience. Such as the Foreign Oscar-nominated Incendies, Disney/BBC co-production African Cats and Morgan Spurlock's The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. So go forth and prosper, my cinephiles.