Frances McDormand

"Women Talking" features one of the year's best ensembles, under the smart direction of Sarah Polley, and ends up as one of the year's most powerful films.

Joel Coen has crafted perhaps one of the greatest cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare’s seminal tragedy, "The Tragedy of Macbeth," in the history of cinema.

Overall, 'The French Dispatch' feels like the work of an artist that was created specifically for devotees of his work and, as such, functions less as a cohesive piece than it would otherwise.