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Movies appear in the order they are released with the most recent first. Nice Cinémathèque & occasional movies are at the foot of the page. To reference movies by location visit the Angloinfo movie guide.

Inception - Drama (2010) 2h28m

Screening daily at Les Arcades, Cannes; 14.00/18.45/21.30 + 10.30 Sat & Sun

Screening daily at Cinéma Rialto, Nice; 14.00/17.30/21.00 + 10.45 Wed, Sat & Sun

Screening daily at Pathé-Massena, Nice; 10.50/13.50/16.50/20.30

Screening daily at Cinéma Le Royal, Toulon; 14.00/17.15/20.40

Cinema Sporting, Monaco; Fri 21.30; Sat 18.30; Sun 21.00; Mon 18.00/21.00; Tue 18.00

Hollywood Reporter Review: Bottom Line: A devilishly complicated, fiendishly enjoyable sci-fi voyage across a dreamscape that is thoroughly compelling. In a summer of remakes, reboots and sequels comes "Inception," easily the most original movie idea in ages. Now "original" doesn't mean its chases, cliffhangers, shoot-outs, skullduggery and last-minute rescues. Movies have trafficked in those things forever. What's new here is how writer-director Christopher Nolan repackages all this with a science-fiction concept that allows his characters to chase and shoot across multiple levels of reality. Kirk Honeycutt.

The Last Airbender - Action (2010) 1h43m

Screening daily at Les Arcades, Cannes; 14.05/15.50/19.50/21.35

Le Casino, Antibes; Tue 20.30

Cinéma d'Été (Monaco Open Air Cinema); Sun 21.30

Knight and Day - Action (2010) 1h49m

Screening daily at Les Arcades, Cannes; 13.50/15.50/19.50/21.45

Cinéma d'Été (Monaco Open Air Cinema); Fri 21.30

Hollywood Reporter Review: Bottom Line: Logic and plausibility take a holiday in this nonstop actioner that counts on stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz to sell the nonsense. Compared to secret agent Roy Miller, James Bond is a risk-averse, low-profile kind of guy. In "Knight and Day," Roy thinks nothing of leaping between fast-moving cars, diving off buildings, taking on dozens of bad guys at once or exchanging coy dialogue with his female co-star while ducking barrage after barrage of bullets. But then again, an audience will think nothing about this either because the stunt doubles and CG effects are all too obvious. With Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz as the stars, no harm will ever come to the heroes; their hair won't even get mussed. Kirk Honeycutt.

Toy Story 3 - Animation (2010) 1h43m

Cinéma d'Été (Monaco Open Air Cinema); Thu 21.30

Hollywood Reporter Review: Bottom Line: Woody, Buzz and playmates make a thoroughly engaging, emotionally satisfying return. After a decade-plus absence, the toys are back in town, and boy are they a sight for sore, 3D-beaten eyes. "Toy Story 3" might not carry that eye-popping dazzle of 1995's milestone original that put Pixar on the map, but, in the absence of groundbreaking innovation, there's a greater depth that isn't solely attributable to those now-ubiquitous goofy glasses. Michael Rechtshaffen.

Tamara Drewe - Comedy (2010) 1h51m

Directed by: Stephen Frears  Starring: Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam

Screening daily at Les Arcades, Cannes; 17.50

Screening daily at Cinéma Rialto, Nice; 13.45/17.55/22.10

Screening daily at Cinéma Lido, Saint Raphael; 13.50/16.00

Screening daily at L'Olbia, Hyères; Wed, Fri, Sun & Tue 17.00; Thu, Sat & Mon 17.00/19.10

Screening daily at Cinéma Le Royal, Toulon; 16.00/19.55

Eldorado, Draguignan; Sat, Mon & Tue 18.00

Hollywood Reporter Review: Bottom Line: Bright and amusing comedy about the foibles and loves of writers in bucolic Hardy country. A film claiming to be a literary comedy set in England's West Country and based loosely on Thomas Hardy's "Far From the Madding Crowd" had better deliver the goods, and Stephen Frears' new film, "Tamara Drewe," pretty much does. Jaunty and entertaining, it's a faithful rendering of a comic by Posy Simmonds for the upscale British newspaper the Guardian and subsequently published in graphic novel form. Simmonds' fans should be happy as Frears and screenwriter Moira Buffini make pleasing work of her material with plenty of laughs. Ray Bennett.

Wild Target - Action (2010) 1h38m

Screening daily at Cinéma Le Royal, Toulon; Wed, Fri, Sun & Tue 18.05/22.00; Thu, Sat & Mon 18.05

Maison pour Tous, Montaroux; Thu 21.00; Sat 18.00

Hollywood Reporter Review: Bottom Line: Attractive stars adrift in a stinker. Jonathan Lynn's lamentable black comedy "Wild Target" again shows that attractive and charismatic actors can do nothing to save a movie that's charmless, pointless and witless. Bill Nighy plays the aristocrat of hit men, from a family of hit people, whose latest target, a thief (Emily Blunt), so captivates him that he lets her live. It's an aberration we live to regret. Ray Bennett.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - Fantasy (2010) 2h04m

Screening daily at Les Arcades, Cannes; 17.35

Screening daily at Cinéma Rialto, Nice; 16.30/21.55

Hollywood Reporter Review: Bottom Line: The teen vampire series finally hits its stride with an entertaining mix of romance and action fantasy. It took three films, but "The Twilight Saga" finally nails just the right tone in "Eclipse," a film that neatly balances the teenage operatic passions from Stephenie Meyer's novels with the movies' supernatural trappings. Kirk Honeycutt.

Shrek Forever After - Animation (2010) 1h33m

Cinéma d'Été (Monaco Open Air Cinema); Tue 21.30

When You're Strange - Music Doc (2010) 1h25m

Le Cinema, Le Luc; Sat 18.00/21.00

Hollywood Reporter Review: Bottom Line: A must for Doors fans as the film attempts to disentangle the facts from the myths surrounding the legendary band. Sundance fave Tom DiCillo returns to the snow with his first documentary, "When You're Strange," a look at the legendary if not mythic rock band the Doors. Despite the fact the Doors' remarkable, chaotic 54 months in the media spotlight transpired in an era before MTV, videos and cell phone cameras, DiCillo has found enough archival footage shot between 1966 and 1971 to fill all 88 minutes of this hypnotically watchable doc. Reportedly, much of it is never-before-seen footage. Kirk Honeycutt.