Entertainment: Whats the Buzz from The Hollywood Reporter

‘Hard Sell’: Film Review

A financially strapped teenager uses a gorgeous ex-stripper to help him make money at his elite prep school.

‘The Pearl’: Hot Docs Review

Jessica Dimmock and Christopher LaMarca’s documentary profiles four transgender women in the Pacific Northwest.

‘Mimosas’: Cannes Review

Writer-director Oliver Laxe’s follow-up to ‘You Are All Captains’ tracks a caravan facing heat, bandits and stubborn mules in Morocco’s Atlas mountains.

‘Le Cancre’: Cannes Review

Paul Vecchiali’s latest film stars Pascal Cervo and the director and features supporting turns from French stars Catherine Deneuve and Mathieu Amalric.

‘The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki’ (‘Hymyileva mies’): Cannes Review

Finnish newcomer Juho Kuosmanen chronicles the buildup to the 1962 world featherweight championship title match in this idiosyncratic boxing drama.

‘Dog Eat Dog’: Cannes Review

Paul Schrader’s latest stars Nicolas Cage as an ex-con chasing one last big payday.

‘Inversion’ (‘Varoonegi’): Cannes Review

A woman takes charge in Behnam Behzadi’s smoggy Tehran drama.

‘The Last Face’: Cannes Review

Sean Penn directs Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem in this drama about international aid workers struggling to sustain a romantic relationship in war-ravaged Africa.

‘Love at First Child’ (‘Ange et Gabrielle’): COLCOA Review

Patrick Bruel and Isabelle Carre co-star in an atypical French romantic comedy.

‘Turn Me Loose’: Theater Review

‘Scandal’ regular Joe Morton plays legendary comedian Dick Gregory in this bio-play produced by singer John Legend.

‘The Neon Demon’: Cannes Review

Elle Fanning stars as a teen model who stirs jealousy and desire in Nicolas Winding Refn’s new thriller.

‘The Death of Louis XIV’ (‘La Mort de Louis XIV’): Cannes Review

French New Wave veteran Jean-Pierre Leaud stars as the bedridden Roi Soleil in Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra’s latest.

‘Gimme Danger’: Cannes Review

Premiering alongside Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Paterson’ in Cannes, the director’s documentary salutes influential proto-punk band The Stooges and its sinewy frontman Iggy Pop.

‘After the Storm’ (‘Umi yori mo mada fukaku’): Cannes Review

A divorced father tries to put his family back together in director Kore-eda Hirokazu’s family tale.

‘The Apology’: Hot Docs Review

Tiffany Hsiung’s documentary profiles three elderly “comfort women” who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese army during World War II.

‘Preacher’: TV Review

Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin’s promising adaptation of the classic comic stars Joseph Gilgun and Ruth Negga.

‘Graduation’ (‘Bacalaureat’): Cannes Review

Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu, who won the Palme d’Or for ‘4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days’ in 2007, returns to Cannes competition with a morality play centered around an overbearing dad keen to get his daughter into a British university at any price.

‘Pericle’ (‘Pericle il nero’): Cannes Review

Riccardo Scamarcio plays a hunted hit-man on the run in a ‘Gomorrah’-style mafia thriller set in Belgium.

‘About 12’ (‘Juana a las 12’): Film Review

Argentinian Martin Shanly’s debut records the clumsy attempts of its 12 year-old heroine to find her place in a world of indifference.

‘Risk’: Cannes Review

WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is the subject of Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras’ exploration of global surveillance.

‘Divines’: Cannes Review

Writer-director Houda Benyamina premiered her first feature at the Directors’ Fortnight.

‘The Ruins of Civilization’: Theater Review

A couple living in a futuristic society open their home to a stranger in this world premiere play by Penelope Skinner.

‘It’s Only the End of the World’: Cannes Review

Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s latest stars an A-list French cast, including Marion Cotillard, Lea Seydoux and Vincent Cassel, in the story of a young man who returns home to tell his family he’s dying.

‘A Bit of Bad Luck’: Film Review

A cheating husband finds himself trapped in a small town with malevolent locals in John Furhman’s dark comedy.

‘Wrong Elements’: Cannes Review

Franco-American novelist Jonathan Littell ventures into documentary filmmaking with this contemplative look at life for young Ugandans who escaped their captive service in Joseph Kony’s guerilla army.