To age brutishly is Liam Neeson’s apparent career goal—with Taken, Clash of the Titans, The A-Team, and now Unknown, the…
The late Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) was a bellicose practitioner of Jewish fiction in the…
Miguel Arteta’s amiable Cedar Rapids is a mild comedy of embarrassment, set in the dark heart of Middle America and…
Directed by Kevin Macdonald, this adaptation of a 1954 historical novel about second-century Roman legions and youthful derring-do on the…
The live-action entries are a diverse mix. The clear winner of the pack is writer/director/star Luke Matheny’s God of Love,…
This Bieber movie, a concert experience and origin-myth documentary, is not good—not that it needs to be. It is draggily…
There are all the elements of a terrific spoof in The Taqwacores, which follows a year in the life of…
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s first film since he split from screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, with whom he created the fractured, parceled-out, time-toggling—and…
The Sundance Film Festival, which ended last Sunday, self-identifies as a “discovery festival,” meaning that it embraces its own legend…
“Lemmy is the baddest motherfucker in the world,” exclaims Dave Grohl in this fawning new music doc. It’s a sentiment…
Stare long enough at Borneo native Nénette, a 41-year-old orangutan who’s lived at the zoo in Paris’ Jardin des Plantes…
The latest of at least a dozen widely released American movies in half as many years with demonic possession a…
The famed titular Wing Chun martial arts master Ip Man returns to protect Chinese honor in Ip Man 2, a…
There’s a lot of Sicilian history in this episodic opus from Giuseppe Tornatore (whose Cinema Paradiso you either love or…
Some wrongheaded critics have called the happily- and long-married couple at the center of Mike Leigh’s new seriocomedy “smug,” which…
Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist breathes life into a celluloid fossil, lovingly animating an unproduced script by the great filmmaker Jacques…
An apocalyptic take on the social network comes from, of all places, Mamoru Hosoda’s childlike, yay-go-team Japanime about a hijacked…
Little Oral Annie Takes Manhattan is not a XXX parody of Annie in the style of Pirates. There’s no creepy…
Why would a couple of over-40 dudes, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, make a movie about something they…
“She doesn’t sing that way because she’s had it easy.” This is how Tess (Cher), the long-suffering owner of the…
