Ridley Scott’s vanguard science-fiction epic returns to the big screen for its 25th anniversary, digitally tweaked in hundreds of ways,…
The 18 titles in this retrospective are the work of a social anthropologist with an unapologetic Darwinian streak. Postwar Japan…
Hotel Rwanda director Terry George’s film version of John Burnham Schwartz’s 1998 novel is one of those movies where the…
To some, the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, the 24-year-old Emory University graduate who starved to death in the Alaskan…
When 16-year-old Finn (Anton Yelchin) gets busted scoring drugs for his coke-snorting, alcoholic masseuse of a mother (Diane Lane), Mom…
Trouble paying attention in class, low self-esteem, hormonal confusion, counting the days until summer vacation—and those are just the teachers…
In the new Neil Jordan movie, Jodie Foster plays New York talk-radio host Erica Bain, who survives a vicious Central…
The 24-year-old writer-director Monty Lapica makes an ill-advised stab at playing the 17-year-old version of himself in this autobiographical drama…
Two geeks on an epic quest
Shortly after graduating from film school, I took a part-time job as the assistant to a successful movie and television…
Danish provocateur Lars von Trier took a break from his much-ballyhooed (but financially disastrous) U.S.A. Trilogy to make this unexpectedly…
The latest comic meteorite to hurtle forth from the galaxy of producer Judd Apatow, Superbad is about a couple of…
The Saturday Night Live comedy trio of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer—collectively known as the Lonely Island—shot to…
In his big-screen debut, Homer Simpson utters the “D’oh!” heard round the world—or at least as far away as Washington,…
Directed by the Dutch expatriate filmmaker Rolf de Heer, this sometimes bawdy (remember: “Never trust a man with a small…
Neither salacious nor cinematic, this tepid third treatment of
Hairspray is only notable for its casting.
As a longtime series writer on The Sopranos, Terence Winter admirably steered clear of most of the hoary old organized…
Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the Montana-born director John Dahl made a name for himself with a…
In the new animated feature by The Incredibles director Brad Bird, a rat of rarefied palate (and exceptional olfactory ability)…
We’ve had our fun, and now Steven Soderbergh has our money. Oh, wait, that was two movies ago.
