Nothing quite prepares you for the rough-cut diamond that is "Precious." A rare blend of pure...
Have you ever wanted to strangle a ghost?
"The Men Who Stare at Goats" sounds like some ethnographic documentary about the bushmen of the...
"Turning Green," an amusing Irish coming-of-age comedy set in 1979, takes its title from the...
Have you ever actually tried watching paint dry? A sloth walk? Grass grow? You can have all...
The vogue for verité spooks continues with "The Fourth Kind," but unlike the understated...
"Araya" has been hidden in plain sight for decades, which is especially ironic for a film whose...
Although "Died Young, Stayed Pretty," a documentary about the underground rock poster movement,...
Watching "Gentlemen Broncos" sparks the pressing question: "Is it worse to be clueless or self-...
There is a pivotal scene in "Skin," a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story plucked out of the mess...
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and with "The House of the Devil," a baby-sitter-meets-evil...
Troy Duffy went from a bartending screenwriter to Harvey Weinstein's golden boy in the '90s with his...
Boy, six installments into a crunch-and-splatter series like "Saw," and you think you know a guy....
History can weigh heavily on a filmmaker, and that is what happens with "Amelia," a disappointing...
"Astro Boy" plays like "Transformers" for tots, a "Pinocchio" story that stays true to its source...
Tony Jaa's graceful moves are the big attraction. The story, which begins in 1431, not so much.
As in the best movie satires, there's a solid core of truth informing director Jonathan Parker's "(...
Every once in awhile -- not often, but it happens -- a film appears out of nowhere that doesn't go...
In the bizarre world of "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant," there's a war brewing over,...
In Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," less -- 10 sentences, 37 pages, 338 words --...
"The Stepfather" is that rarity, an effective remake of a screen classic that can stand alone on its...
We know that Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) loves his daughter because in the opening moments of "Law...
"Visual Acoustics" is nominally about the life and career of landmark Southern California...
"New York, I Love You" is a cinematic salon where the topic is the serendipity of romantic...
We see the boots first, then the leather cigarette case, the silver lighter -- all very worn, very...
There is not enough ouzo in all of Greece to raise the spirits of "Opa!," the rocky archaeological...
The mass of men may lead lives of quiet desperation, but Power? He's living the drum.
Invariably funny and inexpressibly moving in the way it looks at a young girl's journey from...
Hair -- short, long, curly, straight -- if it happens to be on a woman's head, those tresses come...
Having the skill to bring authentic stories to forceful and persuasive dramatic life is a gift not...
Remember "I Will, I Will . . . for Now," the 1976 comedy starring Elliott Gould and Diane Keaton...
The lake is still. A stark wind-swept dune rises above it, the image mirrored, unbroken on its...
For 20 years, Claire Denis has been among France's foremost filmmakers with her acute yet subtle...
Sarah Townsend's "Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story" illuminates the life and career of the protean,...
"If not now, when?" the Jewish sage Hillel famously asked, and with "A Serious Man" the Coen...
Poet John Keats fell in love with the girl next door, but it all ended too soon, and badly.
A hopelessly clich¿¿d love story starring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart plays it too safe every...
When food falls from the sky, fun ensues.
In exploring a class-action suit by 30,000 citizens of Ecuador against Chevron, the documentary...
Though there's likely a stronger documentary than "American Casino" to be made about the recent Wall...
"Girlie heaven!" actress Sienna Miller exclaims, stepping into the Times Square digs of Vogue for...
The murky, pretentious and self-indulgent "Orgies and the Meaning of Life's" writer-director-star...
The film takes an exploitation approach to a socially conscious subject.
There's something eminently appealing about the way Ren¿¿e Zellweger's circa 1953 New York City...
"Gotta Dance" is a feel-better movie. Warm and cozy with just the tiniest dollop of tension, this...
Robert Rodriguez seems uninspired with his latest kid flick, which stars adults William H. Macy,...
You'll be planning to see "Ponyo" twice before you've finished seeing it once. Five minutes into...
"(500) Days of Summer" is something seldom seen: an original romantic comedy.
"I Love You, Beth Cooper" is not a remake -- it just feels like one. A flat, tired rehash of teen...
Documentaries often start out as one thing but, through recalibration or serendipity, move in...
Zac Efron, looking cool, is movie enough for the makers of "17 Again," a halfhearted fantasy that...
Balanced at the point where conceptual brilliance and pure stupidity meet, "Crank: High Voltage"...
It's a bit heavy on the metaphors, a few fun supporting players prematurely vanish and there are...
Those passionate about ballet will need no encouragement to experience the new documentary...
"The Song of Sparrows" is a fitting name for the new film from Iranian writer-director Majid Majidi....
Is she or isn't she? Even after you've seen "Forbidden Lie$," the dizzying, drop-dead fascinating...
"Valentino: The Last Emperor," the title of a new documentary about the icon of haute couture, may...
The mysterious Bart and the mythology of the senior prom as the defining moment in the life of a...
Sports is life writ large, the place where everything -- the triumph, the boredom, the despair --...
There is a sweet sincerity to "Alien Trespass," a sometimes too reverential homage to the sci-fi B-...
There is much strange beauty in the poverty and desperation captured by "Sin Nombre," an evocative...
In "The Secrets," filmmaker Avi Nesher takes us into the emotional heart of young Israeli women...
Directed and co-written by Daniel Myrick, one of the creators of "The Blair Witch Project," "The...
Alan Moore was right. There isn't a movie in his landmark graphic novel "Watchmen" -- at least not a...
Love affairs with married men are always messy, entangling more people in the web of fictions than...
For Kyle (Simon Miller) and Marcel (Justin Tensen), it's love at first sight and soon they're...
If you've ever wondered where Mario got his bow tie, or why Inky, Blinky and Clyde are so intent...
Younger audiences, perhaps accustomed to the adopted personas of online realities, seem less...
" Scott Walker: 30 Century Man" chronicles the career of musician Scott Walker, an enigmatic...
Tyler Perry offers something for everyone, whether it fits together or not. "Madea Goes to Jail,"...
The teen romp comedy "Fired Up!" can be viewed much like a Wal-Mart, in that its consumers pretty...
While Dylan Reynolds deserves credit for his confident, singular approach to crafting the stark...
The team behind the latest installment in the "Friday the 13th" horror franchise has decided to...
Set during a gray Brighton Beach winter, "Two Lovers" begins with the solid shape of Joaquin Phoenix...
Having already seen "Deep Sea 3-D" and "Into the Deep 3-D," you could be forgiven for thinking...
The third dimension comes of age with "Coraline." The first contemporary film in which the 3-D...
"Blessed Is the Match" is not only the title of a solemn, respectful documentary about Israeli...
The image of a glittering downtown Los Angeles skyline turned upside down, which opens Stacy...
Time was people looked to the cool kids for guidance, but nowadays, everyone wants to be like the...
"Of Time and the City" is a difficult film to describe but a distinct pleasure to experience. A...
"The Secret of the Grain" is a film with a lot on its mind. Intense and realistic, equally...
Michael Sheen has made his name playing famous people in films -- British Prime Minister Tony...
In the fashionably medieval-tinged fantasy adventure "Inkheart," contemporary people known as...
"Paul Blart: Mall Cop" is as sticky and gooey as a Cinnabon cinnamon roll, a snack the movie's title...
Think of "Hotel for Dogs" as a sort of "Mission: Impossible" with canines . . . without Tom Cruise,...
There are many things that can be said about Biggie Smalls, the rapper officially known as the...
A Russian partisan commander looks dismissively at the Bielski brothers, eyeing tough Zus (Liev...
When an actor reaches a summit of unparalleled global popularity, it is probably hard to resist...
Director Peyton Reed is used to working in italics. His "Down With Love" (2003) was an entirely...
Lovable rodents and a fussy French chef -- there's a soupçon of "Ratatouille" in "The Tale of...
Pete Hamill's Reader's Digest story "The Yellow Handkerchief" inspired Yôji Yamada's...
Well into the fourth hour of "Che," the extraordinary and challenging new work by director Steven...
At this point in his career, when Clint Eastwood stars in and directs a film, all bets are off....
Like most films that crisscross among a handful of city dwellers to mull contemporary ennui, "$9.99"...
Set in a dystopian metropolis bathed in shades of amber and blue, Rachel Samuels' retro-noir "Dark...
It's possible to think of Kelly Reichardt's "Wendy and Lucy" as the anti-"Slumdog Millionaire."...
Though it never actually happened, just imagine this assemblage of talent in a room together:...
Fans of musical dramas may experience some deja vu while watching "Cadillac Records"; the story is...
It was partly an accident of history that made Harvey Milk the first openly gay man elected to major...
In the Indian feature "Dostana," two straight men pretend to be a gay couple to live in a...
Outside of its title, "Quantum of Solace" offers little solace for fans of the venerable James...
"Fear is a powerful emotion," says a guidance counselor to troubled high schooler Molly Hartley...
The bane of documentaries on creative people is that they're often little more than a fan's note, of...
" Synecdoche, New York," screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's wildly ambitious directorial debut,...
If the title doesn't say it clearly enough, " Sex Drive" is about young men (mostly), young women...
"W." MAY sound like the story of the initial that rocked the world, but it turns out to be the tale...
" Happy-Go-Lucky" is something different from virtuoso British writer-director Mike Leigh. For...
The Internet Movie Database, the mighty monarch of cinema sites, lists more than 600 films with the...
"Flash of Genius" is largely about how one person's nothing is another person's everything. Take the...
The celebrated theater director and playwright George C. Wolfe has spearheaded some dazzlingly...
Amid the congested pantheon of romantic male leads, one would be hard-pressed to find a more...
IT'S BEEN 20 years since Robert Fishman (Rainn Wilson), the metal-head hero of " The Rocker," lost...
Hollywood, where vanity can seem not a vice but a virtue, would presumably love mirrors. Not so in...
Eric Guirado's beguiling "The Grocer's Son" is deceptively simple. Antoine (Nicolas Cazal¿¿), a 30-...
WHERE IS it written that superheroes have to be selfless? What would happen if an individual with...
To make a documentary, you must be passionate about the subject. But too much admiration can lead to...
Tell everyone about "Tell No One." Not just because this is a top-notch thriller so twisty you may...
IF Pixar Animation Studios has an enviable record of consistent success -- and with a worldwide box-...
