Kept afloat by an excellent cast, Woody Allen’s fourth movie about callow Londoners recklessly pursuing emotional wreckage begins with wisdom…
Set up on a blind date by their married best friends, Holly (Katherine Heigl) and Messer (Josh Duhamel) show each…
Davis Guggenheim’s call-to-arms documentary on the failures of the U.S. public-education system—thoroughly laudable in intention if maddening in its logic…
As directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg is a character far more compelling…
Even before his first official day on the job in a Spanish prison, a newly hired guard (Alberto Ammann) is…
Modish blankness tries to pass for clarity in Let Me In, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves’ Americanized remake of the Swedish…
A quartet of uneven TV pilots posing as a full-length documentary, Seth Gordon’s anthology Freakonomics pulls case studies from Stephen…
Paul (Ryan Reynolds), an American truck driver for a KBR-type contractor in Iraq, is captured in an insurgent attack and…
Rabbit-Proof Fence meets High School Musical. In this film version of a 1990 Australian stage musical—the first, it’s claimed, about…
For the past half-decade, Romain Duris has been French cinema’s go-to brooder. Diversifying his saturnine handsomeness, Duris gives his artfully…
The facts are more gripping than the filmmaking in Marco Amenta’s routine docudrama about tenacious teen informer Rita Atria. The…
Jack Goes Boating is Philip Seymour Hoffman’s movie—it’s his directorial debut; he stars as its namesake sad sack; he wears…
Oliver Stone’s sequel doesn’t have the clean, fable-like arc of its predecessor, Wall Street, the tale of the Fox and…
As far as teen comedies informed by 10th-grade English syllabi go, Easy A, partly inspired by The Scarlet Letter, is…
Even as the Michael Bays and James Camerons of this world push movies ever more seamlessly into digital effects, there’s…
The one thing no one—particularly its 84-year-old subject—wants to discuss in this very authorized, adulatory documentary is aging. Hugh Hefner…
Directing himself as a verifiable big-movie lead after some time in supporting-actor Triple-A ball, Ben Affleck models a full line…
As a stranger in a strange land, try being an African American in Japan—it’s like being a gaijin twice. Yet…
Discreetly drawn and elegantly photographed, Mademoiselle Chambon gives a French working-class love triangle the Brief Encounter treatment. With long, steadfast…
This surefire crowd-pleaser from Fatah Akin shares the multicultural German setting of his intense prior dramas (Head-On, The Edge of…
