Behind the Candelabra, Steven Soderbergh's backstage drama about Liberace, the fur-and-sequin-clad, ivory-ticking kitsch maestro of "wonderful" entertainment, and…
When film directors stage a scene from the mid-1970s, we all know how it's done: They'll clear everything…
Joel and Ethan Coen have never made a movie that didn't have at least a few big bubbles…
If you had gone to see every single one of the acclaimed movies from Iran that have played…
It's no secret, though it's often forgotten, that the heyday of art film -- roughly speaking, the '50s…
I'm writing my first post here at Cannes while I sit at one of my favorite side-street bistros,…
Star Trek Into Darkness opens on a primitive planet, where the natives are restless and a volcano, in…
Stories We Tell , the third feature directed by Sarah Polley ( Away From Her ), takes the…
It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that I sat through Peeples wishing it were far…
If Iron Man 3 had been made by a young director who very few people had heard of,…
A lot of young actors have wanted to play the cult rock idol Jeff Buckley, who died in…
If you see enough movies, you may start to absorb the lesson that any commercial comedy with the…
I'm not usually a betting man, but if I was, I'd have wagered a lot of money on the…
Colin Firth has portrayed so many posh, charming, and articulate men that you can see why he was drawn to playing the title character of ''Arthur Newman'' a middle-class American drone in khakis and a geek's pastel polo shirt.
I'm always interested when a movie dramatically surpasses box office expectations -- not for what it says about…
The landscape is vast, endless, and bare, often parched, sometimes green but always empty, with maybe a lone…
These days, there are many less flattering things you could say about a movie than that it's enjoyable…
Terrence Malick's To the Wonder is the work of a director who now views himself as a holy…
For anyone who grew up in the late '70s, '80s, or '90s watching Roger Ebert spar on television…
In The Company You Keep , Robert Redford plays a former member of the Weather Underground who was…