There’s a wonderfully perverse irony in the fact that the film version of Richard Yates’ first and most lauded novel,…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious—a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story, about a man born in the…
Walt Kowalski growls a lot–a dyspeptic rumble that wells up from deep inside his belly when he catches sight of…
Two years ago, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness, which starred Smith as a…
Who wants to be a millionaire? Well, who wouldn’t in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees…
If you traveled the length of John Malkovich’s medulla oblongata and walked through the adjoining door of the interstellar hotel…
You’ve got to hand it to Spike Lee for managing to secure the financing for this big-budget, three-hour World War…
Set in the titular suburb in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley (where Rodney King was assaulted by police in 1991),…
Did Los Angeles sign with a new agent? Heretofore best known for its performances as urban jungle, moneyed playground, and…
Up until a couple of weeks ago, this nifty thriller from director Brad Anderson (The Machinist) seemed about to bypass…
Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen’s 39th film as writer-director, will do little…
Australian comic Shane Jacobson, who has the body of a lumberjack and the sweetly innocent face of a newborn, makes…
Swing Vote is about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as…
Writer-director Adam McKay (Anchorman, Talladega Nights) and his muse, writer-star Will Ferrell, reteam for another round of absurdist high-wire antics,…
What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan’s Gotham City–if “pleasure” is the right word for a…
“It’s hard being a human, but being a common person in China is even more difficult,” says one tearful shopkeeper…
Bringing us much too close for comfort to a stuttering, snot-nosed 20-something Brooklynite named Keith (played with freakish intensity by…
Ben Affleck stars in roid rage PSA!
Making his directorial debut, screenwriter Steven Conrad (who previously wrote The Weather Man and The Pursuit of Happyness) continues his…
Russell Crowe narrates—and is reportedly developing a dramatic remake of—this compact history of Australia’s notorious Maroubra Beach community, an economically…
