"The Beat That My Heart Skipped" is a cocky French remake of James Toback's 1978 "Fingers" that stands reasonably well on its own as an urgent, updated genre meditation on nurture vs. nature. Jacques ...

Luc Jacquet‘s doc “March of the Penguins” preyed on the specialty box office once again in its second weekend in theaters, scoring the premier position on the iW BOT, ranked on a per screen basis, ...

Jacques Audiard’s The Beat That My Heart Skipped creates edge-of-the-seat psychological tension in a shadowy Paris. When it was over, I overheard a woman complaining to her companion, “Why can’t ...

Continuing its kudos cleanup in Gaul, Jacques Audiard’s “The Beat That My Heart Skipped” swept the boards at France’s Cesar Awards on Saturday — but protesting showbiz workers stole the show. In an ...

The borders of James Toback’s fiery, absurd, and often unendurable movie universe are defined by his obsessions (pussy, classical music, pop, Dostoyevsky, scam-level crime, gambling) and by his ...

Given France’s intense (and often annoying) national pride, the idea of a French filmmaker remaking an American movie must give Parisian cineastes heart palpitations. Flirting with cultural treason, ...

Fingers, James Toback’s 1978 debut feature about a second-generation gangster who plays classical piano, was described by Dave Kehr as “dauntingly personal filmmaking, full of strange, suggestive ...

Duris plays Tom, a wiry tough guy with a perpetually furrowed brow and knotted fists. His father Robert (Neils Arestrup) has him in an apprenticeship of shakedowns and crooked deals until Tom chances ...