This review of “Stillwater” was first published after its premiere at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. Four years after actor-writer-director Tom McCarthy rebounded from the dismal critical ...

Matt Damon stars in Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater. Courtesy of Focus Features ... It takes nearly the length of the film’s runtime for Bill to learn the true details of a case the French ...

I’m going to take a wild guess and say Amanda Knox will not be watching “Stillwater” this weekend. What director Tom McCarthy’s intriguing film — which is a tad overlong — deftly ...

She was acquitted years later. This piece of information may be true but it is irrelevant to how much you will enjoy the new film because Stillwater is set in France and the movie contains scenes ...

In his newest film, however, McCarthy takes a different approach. “Stillwater” is based on a true story, but in a much different way than “Spotlight. ” McCarthy says that his film is “directly ...

But, by her own account, she has not seen “Stillwater” and what she seems to be raising feels very removed from the film we actually made. “Stillwater” is a work of fiction and not about ...

what do professional film critics think of the film? At the time of this article’s publication, “Stillwater” had earned a 71 percent freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Boston.com’s revie ...

She was later definitively exonerated by the Italian Supreme Court Of Cassation in March 2015), was the impetus for writer-director Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater, but in the 10 years since beginning ...

In town for the world premiere of out-of-competition Cannes Film Festival entry Stillwater, star Matt Damon appeared moved by emotion during a near-five-minute standing ovation tonight.

Most recently, the film Stillwater.” As a work of fiction, Stillwater does a lot to distance itself from its real-life inspirations. Bill Baker, Damon’s character, is a manual worker from the ...

The director of “Stillwater,” starring Matt Damon as a ... studio-backed filmmakers rarely get—to step away from the film for months and come back to sharpen it with fresh eyes.

And for his follow-up to that film, the man with the least predictable career in Hollywood came up with “Stillwater,” a genre-agnostic semi-thriller that was greeted with cheers and applause ...