United Kingdom, May 17 -- Julianne Moore has sparked fierce online debate after saying she no longer enjoys watching films filled with "explosions and guns".

The 65-year-old actress made the remarks during a conversation with Variety at the Kering Women in Motion Talk during the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, with critics then accusing the Oscar-winning actor of dismissing the kind of violent dramas that helped define parts of her own career.

Julianne - whose acclaimed career includes roles in Still Alice, Boogie Nights, Far from Heaven, The Hours and Hannibal - was attending the festival as the recipient of Kering's Women in Motion Award, which honours women who have advanced the role of women in film and society.

She said: "...