“Micmacs” has a “B-” average on criticWIRE, with grades ranging from quite a few “A” level shout outs (including folks from Variety and The Los Angeles Times) to an “F” from Marie Claire‘s Caryn James ...

Ah yes, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, he's definitely got his fans. Sony Pictures Classics debuted earlier this week the official US trailer (via Yahoo) for Jeunet's new film Micmacs, or Micmacs à tire-larigot ...

Ah, France! Land of quaint cafes, tinted-postcard views, wide-eyed waifs and all the other delights Jean-Pierre Jeunet fetishized in Amelie, his 2001 art-house hit. Also, the country is the world's ...

Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s signature films, including “Amelie” and “City of Lost Children,” have functioned as gateway drugs, getting the previously uninitiated hooked on the habit of foreign film. Romantic ...

The late afternoon is warm, the locusts screaming from the trees. The sun makes everything as golden as the poster for Micmacs, a movie that I’ve avoided because the spell of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s ...

"Micmacs," another bizarre movie from the director of "Delicatessen" and "Amélie," will open the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs April 22-May 6. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film, ...

Review originally published on March 18, 2010 as part of our SXSW coverage. Favored French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (DELICATESSEN, AMELIE) returns to delight audiences once again with MICMACS, his ...

Quicker than you can say “Yojimbo,” the Micmacs spring into action. Magnets, alarm clocks, string and jars of wasps are the Micmacs’ preferred weaponry — the team embodies Jeunet’s love of the ...

Comedy. Starring Dany Boon and Andre Dussollier. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeanet. In French with English subtitles. (R. 105 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "Micmacs" is highly visual but cold. It's ...

The word ‘visionary’ is given out very easily nowadays. Seemingly every director with a penchant for the image (or simply ambitious, CGI-laden projects) is bestowed with that label. However, there are ...

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Micmacs" is a comic fable about a gang of misfits that takes on the weapons industry and blows their death machines sky high. By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press More Toronto ...