Penélope Cruz stars as Laura and Javier Bardem as Paco in Asghar Farhadi’s EVERYBODY KNOWS, a Focus Features release. Photo credit: Teresa Isasi/Focus Features Penelope Cruz plays a Spanish-born woman ...

“Everybody knows,” a character comments in Asghar Farhadi’s engrossing drama/thriller of the same title, that Paco (Javier Bardem) and Laura (Penélope Cruz) were once in love, long ago, in the Spanish ...

It seems like only yesterday that Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem were wrestling a pig on a highway and making love beneath a cutout of a giant bull. Such were the joys of “Jamón, Jamón” (1992), the ...

Penélope Cruz as Laura and Javier Bardem as Paco in Asghar Farhadi’s "Everybody Knows." (Courtesy Teresa Isasi/Focus Features) The stern moral tales of Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi aren’t exactly ...

A talented cast, a decorated director, an invigorating mystery: "Everybody Knows" has all the elements of an engrossing thriller. What it doesn't have is a satisfying conclusion, which is where this ...

Cannes opener 'Everybody Knows' was directed by Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi ('A Separation') and stars Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. By Boyd van Hoeij Extended families, class differences, ...

Robbie Collin has been a film critic for 20 years, during which time his reviews have seen him temporarily blacklisted by two major studios, dressed down in front of a Bafta committee and thrown off a ...

To some degree, all of Asghar Farhadi's films might alternately have been titled 'A Separation' or 'The Past,' but this Spain-set drama starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem is the first to feel ...