Daybreakers, which opens Friday, comes as a welcome treat, a speculative sci-fi film disguised as a horror story, or perhaps a blend of the two.
"I'm a little rusty at chess," Williams says. "Matthew [Broderick] has got me by a hair." Williams smiles at the memory -- and seems tickled simply by the fact that he's a working actor.
The film has a strong Dickensian flavor to its plotting, as Nick Twisp works his way through both the twisted landscape of suburban Oakland, Calif., and the crowded byways of his own psyche.
Leap Year is the kind of movie of which I wish I could say, "You couldn't pay me to watch that crap." Obviously, however, you can -- but not nearly enough.
What's happened to Matthew Broderick? Why is he stuck in the rut of playing joyless schnooks, like his character in the new film, Wonderful World? I ...
At the age of 21, Michael Cera has been acting professionally for more than half his life, since he was a pre-teen in his native Toronto.
As a critic, I often get the same two questions, virtually back to back: Have you seen (fill in the blank)? How was it? Inevitably, I wind up giving...
I recently overheard a fellow critic comparing Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank to Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy - and had to demur, because Fish Tank is ...
This is a movie that has few ideas of its own, except for one large and highly suspect central one.
Only the very young and the very undiscriminating will find this movie enchanting -- or even mildly entertaining. Obviously, Jackie Chan isn't immune to making one for the paycheck and phoning in his performance.
The Last Station is the movie equivalent of what passes for serious drama on Broadway these days: a lot of big-name stars clustered together in a prod...
I had to laugh after I saw Creation at the Toronto Film Festival last fall, when I read speculation in the press that the reason it was having trouble...
A line near the end of my review of Jason Reitman's Up in the Air seemed to rub some readers the wrong way.
Andre Techine's The Girl on the Train feels like two different films cobbled together, without much to connect one to the other, beyond the fact that they're about the same characters.
Either you're a Leonard Cohen fan or you're not; there seems to be no middle ground. Which pretty much sums up who the audience is for Leonard Cohen L...
They want to rebrand - or perhaps reboot - the Sundance Film Festival this year. Which is why, when you sit in one of the theaters waiting for a film ...
One of the most unique films is Adrian Grenier's Teenage Paparazzo, a documentary in which the Entourage star explores the world of modern paparazzi.
I happened to catch three films in a row on Saturday at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival that all dealt with issues of family, particularly the idea of creating a family from people to whom you aren't necessarily related.
I didn't walk out of Lovers of Hate but people around me did and the urge for flight was strong. Thankfully, this turgid comedy eventually developed a modicum of suspense.
Katie Aselton has been acting for almost 10 years. Married to indy filmmaking upstart Mark Duplass, Aselton was between jobs -- and eager to work -- when she followed her husband's example and decided to do it herself.
The German-made North Face is told with nail-biting gusto that will keep you clenched with suspense for the final hour. The icy tension created by this film is enough to induce frostbite.
The roots of Sundance were acres of granola-flavored films about people in small towns or women in crisis or something that was equally high-minded but was consistently bemoaned as not being particularly commercial.
If movies succeeded on their ambitions alone, St. John of Las Vegas would be hilarious. But St. John misses the mark almost every time.
Having done his penance in movie-star jail (as they say on Entourage), Mel Gibson comes back, doing what he does best: getting down, dirty and vengeful.
Actor Steve Buscemi believes in luck, up to a point. As he notes, it usually has nothing to do with what you do to get it but what you do with it. "I...
