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Despite concerns that something like it might happen, no one protesting changes to the French retirement age cut the power at the press screening of “Jeanne du Barry,” which opened the 76th Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday night. But it’s hard to imagine that many people would have minded if someone had. It only takes…

In the mid-2010s, the Australian-born Hillsong Church was on top of the world. In 2016, its celebrity pastor, Carl Lentz, baptized pop ingenue Justin Bieber in the bathtub of NBA player Tyson Chandler. The year before that, the international, progressive-presenting megachurch reported over $100 million in revenue, largely untaxed. Hillsong was the latest megachurch to…

“To Leslie” is about the hard and difficult struggles of one messy human being. Leslie (Andrea Riseborough) once felt like she was on top of the world, but she hit one bottom after another due to her serious personal problems. This movie from debut director Michael Morris dryly but sensitively depicts Leslie’s desperate reach for…

Patricia Arquette won a deserved Oscar for “Boyhood” and then spent the last decade doing some of the most interesting work on television in award-winning shows like “Escape from Dannemora” and “Severance.” On both of those shows, the consistently fantastic star of “True Romance” worked with director Ben Stiller, who was originally going to collaborate…

Matt writes: The 2023 Cannes Film Festival kicks off today, May 16th, and runs through Saturday, May 27th. As always, you can count on RogerEbert.com to provide in-depth coverage of all the highlights. You can begin with this year’s first video dispatch from our site’s publisher, Chaz Ebert, embedded below, in which she previews several of…