If Melissa Leo were Charlize Theron with artfully applied bags under the eyes, an Oscar nomination would surely be forthcoming…
A hookup between Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz!
Along its winding road to crucifying the American judiciary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired—which already aired to mostly warm reviews…
Sure, it’s nice that the actors sing their own numbers—Meryl Streep has a fab set of pipes, and the fact…
Bracket the fact that it’s an adaptation of Monica Ali’s great big treat of a 2003 novel about displacement and…
Unimpeachably proto-feminist and racially inclusive, this tween drama, based on several “American Girl” books about a cub reporter in Depression-era…
Directed by Anand Tucker with the same intelligent tact he brought to Hilary and Jackie, and cleanly adapted by David…
Jonathan Rhys Meyers saves the orphans (for innocent purposes, of course).
By all means, gather up the little ones and take them to this perfectly pleasant, very good-looking, modestly funny, dispiritingly…
For its first half, Doug Pray’s mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer health nuts operates in…
Oh, please—spoiler alert? Fine, I won’t tell you whether Carrie Bradshaw ties the knot with Mr. Big, even though you’ve…
Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman may be one of the silliest love songs in the canon of French…
Riddled with high concept, this florid adaptation of Laura Kasischke’s 2002 novel is a horror picture of sorts that plays…
Jon Avnet’s cheesy new thriller is 105 minutes long, and I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up…
The multiply blessed young Lebanese writer-director Nadine Labaki looks sublimely like Anna Magnani crossed with Penélope Cruz. She also has…
Film noir and melodrama cast a long shadow over Ira Sachs’ look back at the rotting heart of the ’50s…
Near the beginning of The Counterfeiters, a fact-based Holocaust drama by Austrian filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky, we meet Jewish money forger…
For an obscure tale of a virginal London governess who discovers her true calling running interference for a giddy…
Like most wanna-be heroes of the eager-to-please teen comedy, poor little rich boy Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) is too…
Freud lives and prospers in The Spiderwick Chronicles, an exceptionally oedipal fantasy adventure based on the popular children’s novels…
