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Director and jury member Ang Lee arrives for the screening of the film The Past at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 17, 2013.

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival

Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. 48 minutes ago

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Debbie Reynolds: We all knew Liberace was gay

In the new film "Behind the Candelabra," veteran entertainer Debbie Reynolds has just three major scenes to flesh out one of the most complicated figures in piano-playing showman Liberace's life: his loving but sometimes manipulative mother Frances.
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'Epic' doesn't quite live up to its title

Derivative as all get out and plainly concocted by a committee, "Epic" is a children's animated film that is more entertaining and emotional than it has any right to be.
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This 'Hangover' is easy to sleep off

Slow, sentimental and somewhat sedated, the third "Hangover" movie isn't so much exhausted of outrageous "Oh no, they DIDN'T!" ideas as it is spent of energy. And they knew it, too. The only raunchy moment is stuffed into the closing credits, a "we forgot to do that" afterthought.
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'Furious 6': Dumb fun in the summer time

Bad movies are rarely as much fun as these "Fast and the Furious" pictures. And make no mistake about it - they're bad.
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There's no cure for this miserable 'Hangover'

There is a certain amount of raunchiness, absurdity and juvenile humor expected from the "Hangover" films. The title itself makes it clear this isn't a Mensa tea party.
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'Hangover III': It's time to sober up

Guys get blotto ... wake up and can't remember what happened the night before ... madness ensues.
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Talk of lies, pride as Trump case goes to jury

The lawyer for an 87-year-old woman who accuses Donald Trump of cheating her in a skyscraper condo deal told jurors in Chicago on Wednesday that he was personally repulsed because he felt the "Apprentice" star conned his client and lied about it on the witness stand.
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Capsule reviews of new movie releases

"Before Midnight" - The final scene of 2004's "Before Sunset" was so romantic it drove moviegoers crazy - happily crazy - especially because it was so tantalizingly ambiguous. Jesse and Celine, that appealing (and extremely talkative) couple played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, who had fallen ...
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Cannes: Scott Thomas' glorious dip into darkness

To convince Kristin Scott Thomas to play the bloodthirsty matriarch of "Only God Forgives," director Nicolas Winding Refn appealed to Scott Thomas - how else? - with the flattery of his own mother.
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'Martin Bonner' is an artful bore

There's a school of writing that holds that even the most ordinary lives, deeply and thoughtfully observed, can be rendered into art. Another theory suggests that some movies so defy convention as to be graded on the curve as far as things like dialogue and incident and actual drama are concerned.