An old-fashioned tale for a newfangled world, Joe Wright’s overwrought drama turns on a series of columns begun in 2005…
Lovely to look at but too slow to get lost in, Jan Troell’s new movie is a tribute to still…
If Joaquin Phoenix, who plays a lovelorn bachelor in James Gray’s Two Lovers, were 12 years old, the movie might…
Compare and contrast Laurent Cantet’s terrific The Class with Mr. Holland’s Opus and Dangerous Minds. Note the structural similarities: misbehaving…
The smirky, overbearing, and subliminally hostile romantic primer He’s Just Not That Into You—which sold a regrettable two million copies…
Will there be a special Academy Award for Best Aryan Costume Design this year? Everywhere you turn in the movies,…
Like Doubt, Stephen Daldry’s The Reader is low-budget, high-profile, and beamed straight at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
Kate DiCamillo’s 2003 children’s novel about a big-eared mouse with an inspiring case of shining-knight envy is one of the…
Back in the early 1980s, when I was a graduate student in Boston, a prominent professor I knew was accused…
You don’t have to have been raised on colonial Brit Lit, classic melodramas, Westerns or war movies, or Gone With…
Like every other kids’ movie coming off the studio line these days, the charming and well-crafted animated feature Bolt, about…
As Juliette, a Frenchwoman newly released from prison, Kristin Scott Thomas is so relentlessly unbending, so full of necessary enigma,…
Remember Giuseppe Tornatore, who made the overrated but harmlessly cute Cinema Paradiso, about the grumpy projectionist who made him the…
Rescued from a City Hall junk heap by journalist-turned-screenwriter J. Michael Straczinski, this 1928 true tale of a missing child’s…
From its attention-grabbing B-movie beginning, this family drama (based on the bestselling novel by Sue Monk Kidd) chugs pleasantly into…
Jaw-droppingly arcane and dripping with self-regard, Barry Levinson’s tedious excuse for a Hollywood caper asks us, as if we haven’t…
Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered may not be reassured by his…
Like Amos Gitai’s 1999 Kadosh, Israeli writer-director David Volach’s first feature has scores to settle with ultra-Orthodox Judaism, especially as…
Trailing negative buzz and a revolving door of A-list talent since its inception in 1994, Diane English’s pudding of a…
Documentary filmmaker Jessica Yu takes a breather from chronicling heavy-duty outsider artists (In the Realms of the Unreal) and extremists…
