Henrik Ruben Genz's Terribly Happy, opening in limited release Friday, finds the sweet spot in that realm of disturbing, unpredictable drama tinged with the blackest possible comedy.

For the first time in recent memory, none of the best-director nominees directed movies that weren't also nominated for best picture.

I suppose that, if you haven't seen District B13, this sequel will amuse and excite. But your time is better spent tracking down a DVD of the original, which was a highlight of a rapidly deteriorating genre.

Luc Besson is a movie-making maniac, an action auteur whose signature is all over the films he produces and writes.

I don't think I'm giving much away to say that Dear John is the first of the cinematic adaptations of his books I've encountered in which one of the two lovers at the center of the story doesn't die.

One of the films that played at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival's Midnight series, Adam Green's Frozen is the horror equivalent of a one-joke movie - ...

These are high-quality mystery-thrillers, made for British television but better than most American cop films, with more going on than the case that seems to be at the center of each film. But there are three of them.

I've got an idea for how to change independent film and kick-start the kind of serious attention that video-on-demand seems to require. And it all s...

An Oscar nominee as best foreign-language film, Israel's Ajami is a reminder that things can always -- always -- be worse. Yet Ajami isn't a downbeat film -- though it is a relentless one.

Valentine's Day wants to do for that Hallmark holiday what Love Actually did for Christmas: exploit it to make a romantic comedy. Just one problem: it's not funny.

Joe Johnston's remake isn't dreadful -- certainly not as awful as the commercials make it look. It's not a good movie, by any stretch -- but it could have been a lot worse.

The plot concerns an impending war between Zeus and his brother, Poseidon. Zeus' lightning bolt has been stolen and he blames Poseidon's human offspring. If it isn't returned, by thunder ...

DiCaprio isn't just a star -- he's a smart, resourceful actor intimately in tune with his emotions and capable of nearly anything on screen.

It's always feast or famine: months of movies like Dear John, Valentine's Day, Leap Year -- and then, in one week, new films by both Martin Scorsese and Roman Polanski.

DiPietro creates a convincing atmosphere on the trading floor in The Good Guy, in which colleagues act alternately as allies and competitors, chasing the big bucks, with ethics as an afterthought (if that).

Legacy -- it hovers over everyone's head in this film. And it's all about daddy issues.

Bryan Greenberg laughs ruefully at the question of who's the better kisser: Alexis Bledel or Uma Thurman? But he's one of the few actors around who can answer it, so it needs to be brought up.

My friend Jeffrey Wells recently ran a link to my review of Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, which I really liked, on his always interesting website,...

Dennis Lehane gets ideas for novels all the time. But here's the key question: Once you've had the idea, can you sustain it?

I've been asked to weigh in on whether Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds will somehow game the system or benefit from the screwy new best-picture voting process. Here's what I think: I don't care.

Apparently, no one ever told Mitchell Lichtenstein, "Hey, buddy, watch your tone." So his films - 2007's notorious Teeth and now Happy Tears - are ex...

Cop Out affects such a generic, mid-80s feel that you keep waiting for the wink. You keep watching, expecting that, at any moment, director Kevin Smith is going to tip his hand.

This film by Breck Eisner is taut, tense and veined with just the right amount of humor. It knows what it's about and gets to it, without a lot of fuss or frills.

At once a tale of teen girls jockeying over friendship, prestige, boys and their own identities, Toe to Toe features two exceptionally layered performances at its center.

Some movies provide a light snack - and some provide a banquet, a feast of ideas, sensations and images that pull you into a world you never could (an...