The Cannes Film Festival means many different things to many different people - from masterpiece movies to not-so-well-regarded ones, from glitz and glamour to sometime controversy. In the latter ...

Every year we do it, without fail, even though fans and critics moan about it, and it’s quite clearly a reductive way of measuring a movie’s impact. However, we simply just can’t seem to help ...

When “Joker: Folie à Deux” premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, the audience erupted into a standing ovation that lasted 11 minutes, according to Variety. The Hollywood Reporter clocked ...

Leo Lewis O'Neil's raw documentary that centers on Shia LaBeouf's experimental theater company and devolves into what Variety calls "ego-driven insanity, complete with physical violence and harrowing ...

If standing and clapping for more than 15 minutes sounds a bit tiring then you might want to steer clear of film festivals, where standing ovations are becoming increasingly epic affairs. The Venice ...

At most film festivals, any standing ovation stirs excitement. Not so at the Cannes Film Festival, where audiences will stand up and applaud for literally anything — even for films they also booed. To ...

The practice of clapping to signal approval goes back at least as far as Roman times, if not earlier. But at some point, we decided we needed another, better way to say “Yes, that was good”—a kind of ...

Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix soaked up the applause as Todd Phillips’ villainous musical sequel, “Joker: Folie à Deux” earned an 11-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday ...