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Capsule reviews of feature films

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:34 EDT

ADMISSION 2 1/2 stars. Tina Fey stars as a Princeton admissions officer, Paul Rudd is a hippie-dippie progressive school head lobbying for one of his students, in this odd mix of romantic comedy, improbable soap and Ivy League satire. 1 hr. 57 PG-13 (sex, profanity, adult themes) - Steven Rea

Payne back on the road with 'Nebraska' at Cannes

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:09 EDT

Shooting the Midwest in monochrome came naturally for Alexander Payne in his father-son road trip "Nebraska."

Banned Iranian director Rasoulof coming to Cannes

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:04 EDT

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose movies are banned in his country and who has been sentenced to jail by the Islamic regime there, is coming to Cannes for a screening of his latest film, publicists for the movie said Thursday.

Standouts among Hollywood's many attempts to portray the conflict

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:49 EDT

(EDITORS: Monday is Memorial Day, when we honor the dead from America's wars. To mark the anniversary, Orange County Register Travel Editor Gary A. Warner, the newspaper's one-time military reporter, offers his updated list of the best World War II movies.)

The Hollywood Reporter's best stories of the week

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:24 EDT

The Hollywood Reporter's list of its 10 best stories of the week:

Cannes crime: 2nd jewel theft during film festival

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:24 EDT

Thieves outsmarted 80 security guards in an exclusive French Riviera hotel and made off with a necklace that creators say is worth a staggering 2 million euros ($2.6 million) - in the second such jewelry heist during this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Commentary: Sequel summer steams on

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:09 EDT

The summer movie season has already brought moviegoers "Iron Man 3" and "Star Trek Into Darkness," the 12th film in that series. Still to come are second installments of "Grown Ups," "Despicable Me," "The Smurfs," "RED," "Kick-Ass," "300" and "Percy Jackson." There's also "Wolverine," a continuation of the Hugh Jackman "X-Men" / "Wolverine" movies; the animated prequel "Monsters University" and the art-film threepeat "After Midnight." Then there are the reconsiderations of pop-culture icons in the latest "Great Gatsby," "Lone Ranger" and Superman film "Man of Steel,"

Sorrentino serves up a cinema banquet at Cannes

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:04 EDT

Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food - appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty."

A black-and-white film about a heart of gold

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:34 EDT

Noah Baumbach's playful, effervescent comedy "Frances Ha" is the story of a young woman's quest to find an apartment in New York. That's an arduous task for most ordinary, gainfully employed people. But Frances (Greta Gerwig) is neither ordinary nor employed. She's a relentless optimist who always believes success is just around the corner, even though she's an apprentice for a dance company that refuses to hire her full time and her longtime roommate Sophie (Mickey Sumner, daughter of musician Sting) announces she's moving out of their Brooklyn apartment to live with her boyfriend.

Even stone-cold criminals have moms

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:19 EDT

Kang-do (Lee Jung-jin), the blank-faced protagonist of "Pieta," is a collector for a loan shark who charges outrageous interest: Borrow $3,000, say, and you'll have to pay back $30,000 in three months. Since most of the clients, who live in an industrial slum in Cheonggyecheon, South Korea, can rarely afford to settle their debts, Kang-do uses heavy machinery to cripple them in some way - taking a foot or a hand or an arm, just enough for their work insurance policies to cover the injury, so they can pay what they owe.