A great brooding thundercloud of a movie, Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood arrives as if from nowhere on…
Probably the most ambitious film at October’s Local Sightings Film Festival (where it won top prize), Brian Short’s documentary…
Having a child destroys your immune system to horror, real or imagined. As surely as Pan’s Labyrinth—whose director, Guillermo…
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Warner Bros., $34.99 It’s a sign of this film’s enduring power after 25 years that…
How tough is it for a movie to find its audience, above the din of blockbuster marketing and beyond the…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Sondheim Plus Blood Equals Excellence
This isn’t the first time that Richard LaGravenese, the gifted writer of A Little Princess and The Fisher King…
At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the American painter turned filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls) won the jury’s…
Hell of a thing, getting Mike Nichols to adapt the yer-kiddin’-me story of Charlie Wilson, the congressman from Lufkin, Texas,…
As an actor, John C. Reilly is the opposite of Mr. Cellophane. He doesn’t disappear into a role; roles disappear…
Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed return to the fray is a curious project—well-crafted, personal, and movie-movie old-fashioned even in its…
Wed like to thank the Academy
Simmering below the squeamish elder-care euphemism “uncharted territory” is a fearful awareness that when it comes to dealing with the…
Kites fly high over San Francisco and Kabul, but not much else soars in Marc Forster’s flaccid adaptation of…
Welcome to Butterface Fields, a SoCal “small-town U.S.A” peopled by cheery barfly numbskulls with names like Mo & Ron,…
There are two momentous performances in the Darwinian horror fable I Am Legend. One is by the movie’s star, Will…
Paul Schrader’s cinema is largely defined by the pathology of his male protagonists, and with The Walker, he’s added…
Nancy (Gabrielle Union) is a normal suburban mom who wears sweatpants as she shuttles her kids to and from…
John Turturro’s third and loopiest film is prime film-studies fodder, fitting in best at the tail end of a…
Juno marks the second film for director Jason Reitman and the first for screenwriter Diablo Cody, author of the Pussy…
