De Niro is at the center of the film in one of the quietest performances of his career, yet one of the most moving -- the kind that ought to draw Oscar attention.

Brothers is the classic example of a movie that tries to be too many things and ends up not being much of anything except overwrought.

The Adrienne Shelly story is so tragic that the temptation is to celebrate all the work she left unfinished, as her widower, Andy Ostroy, shepherds he...

He is guaranteed to be a player in the coming awards season. But screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher knows that not everyone is enamored of Precious, whose screenplay he adapted.

Up in the Air is based on a Walter Kirn novel. As I sit down to dinner with him, Kirn has the slightly wide-eyed look of someone who realizes that the old lottery ticket he's been carrying around in his wallet is a jackpot winner.

Tom Ford's A Single Man features one of the year's most moving performances - by Colin Firth - set against what appears to be one long perfume or unde...

The film is about a chapter of sports and international political history that few outside of South Africa would be aware of. In most ways, it's a standard underdog tale, but this one comes with a difference.

There's always a challenge in adapting a novel as popular as Alice Sebold's best-selling The Lovely Bones into film form - particularly if the book al...

The timing couldn't have been eerier, Colin Firth recalls. It was Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, and Firth was filming a scene for Tom Ford's film, A Single ...

There are visionary filmmakers - and then there's James Cameron, who pushes the envelope of what is possible on the screen every time he makes a film....

Every year, one movie seems to come out of nowhere as December dwindles down - a movie that pops up just in time to unexpectedly grab all sorts of awa...

There are more sophisticated animated films out there than A Town Called Panic - but none with the sheer joie de vivre that this Belgian stop-motion-a...

Nine is a tour of Guido Contini's imagination and memory, writ large as a musical. Not a musical comedy; there aren't many laughs.

Queen Victoria, to most people (or at least, to most Americans), survives in the form of photos from her later years: the dour dowager whose name has ...

It's exactly the kind of middlebrow entertainment that attracts people who no longer go to movies -- because it seems like the kind of movie they no longer make.

If Guy Ritchie and producer Joel Silver (whose ham-handed fingerprints are all over this film) wanted to make a James Bond film set in Victorian times, why call him Sherlock Holmes? Why not Terlock Scones? Merlock Bones? Parkway Homes?

I've been a Terry Gilliam fan for a long time. Though I don't think his films always work, I admire his imagination and vision - and his willingness t...

While it's traditional for critics to assemble lists of the best and worst films of the year, for some reason, I'm a lot more worked up about my list of the worst films.

Unless you're a dog undergoing house-breaking, you don't need to have your nose rubbed in s**t to be reminded that it exists. But that seems to be Michael Haneke's raison d'etre.

When this decade began, the independent film world was a thriving, vibrant concern. Ten years later, most of the tiny companies -- particularly the boutique labels the various major studios had put together -- have vanished.

Howard, who broke through in M. Night Shymalan's The Village in 2004, talked about playing one of Tennessee Williams' resilient blossoms, and about having a famous father.

While there is violence galore in A Film with Me in It, the lion's share is accidental.

Shohreh Aghdashloo may have the sexiest movie voice since Lauren Bacall and Elizabeth Ashley: deep, insinuating, with what she refers to as a Persian ...