A love story can devolve into tired cliches and sentimental dialogue, but Rust and Bone shirks the usual props and dives deep into a romantic tale you can’t help but adore. The bouncer (Matthias ...

On paper, “Rust and Bone” sounds like a particularly bad Lifetime movie. A brutish single father, who is not a particularly good dad to his young son and spends much of his time on street fighting, ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

This is not a storybook love affair. He's a coarse, violent, uneducated guy who treats dogs like objects, his son like a dog and women like conveniences. His only skill - his only joy -- seems to be ...

"Rust and Bone" is a tough movie about tough people for a tough audience. So prepare to get roughed up a little. The main characters are a bouncer who earns money on the side by getting into amateur ...

Matthias Schoenaerts had a tricky job in his breakthrough movie, “Rust and Bone”: making audiences like a violent, selfish character. Actually, the first tricky job is figuring out how to pronounce ...

French director Jacques Audiard presents a hard, rough tale, beautifully shot and guided by two captivating lead performances, but there's something missing. I don't want to use the dreaded p-word, ...

LITTLE ROCK — There’s a lot to admire in Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone, including a fierce lead performance by Marion Cotillard and a script liberally sprinkled with melancholy grace notes that ...

One of the most repellent phrases in the English language is “Oscar buzz.” The nattering about contenders for the Academy Awards begins more than a year before Oscar night, at Sundance; it balloons at ...

Romantic but pitiless, fearlessly emotional as well as edgy, “Rust and Bone” is a powerhouse. It’s the kind of risky venture only a consummate filmmaker could manage, and then only with the help of ...

The unpredictable love story Rust and Bone is not the first thing you might imagine French filmmaker Jacques Audiard would make on the heels of A Prophet, his widely lauded film of 2009. A devastating ...

Jacques Audiard's follow-up to "A Prophet" benefits from unvarnished, forthright performances from Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts. By Todd McCarthy Jacques Audiard’s follow-up to 2009 ...