Christopher Plummer sits on a couch in a suite in New York's Waldorf-Astoria Towers, tennis silently playing on a TV in the background. His hair is g...

It's not surprising, given the maturing of the baby-boom generation, that there has been a steady trickle over the last few years of films about paren...

After a career spent directing theater, Christina Yao decided to try making a movie - and for her maiden effort, she chose a sweeping tale of late 19t...

Christopher Plummer's performance is exactly the kind that wins Oscars for actors who have reached Plummer's age, with a strong body of work and a dearth of Academy Awards on their shelves.

Brooks' first novel, 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America, has popped on to the New York Times' best-seller list -- that kind of commercial success is an unaccustomed feeling for Brooks.

Bill Haney's film, a documentary that looks at the impending flattening of the final mountain in a West Virginia area of Appalachia, is stark in its facts and unapologetic about its viewpoint: Coal is killing the planet.

I've written several times about how bored I am with comic-book movies, how tired and formulaic the whole genre has become - and how discouraging it i...

Mr. Nice is an interesting story told in a half-good film. But it's a treat to see Welsh actor Rhys Ifans in a role that lets him stretch his lanky charm.

It's always thrilling when a filmmaker emerges -- to see the movie that truly marks his arrival as someone to watch and pay attention to because he not only has something to say but he knows how to say it.

Part comedy-concert film, part documentary, Ahmed Ahmed's Just Like Us, opening in limited release Friday (6/10/11), is an enjoyably sprawling travelo...

A few years ago, Albert Brooks went Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World. With Just Like Us, Ahmed Ahmed found it. The documentary - of a tour of ...

The pleasures of The Trip are subtle and absurd. The humor is found in the moment by a pair of witty performers who cast a gimlet eye on everything they encounter -- including each other.

When did the notion of quiet become such an alien concept to American society? Or the idea of being bored - was that illegalized when I wasn't lookin...

The documentary, opening in limited release this Friday, uses what has become America's most important print media outlet to tell the story of the collapse of print media in the Internet age.

Buck is as engrossing as a documentary can be, a film that will touch you emotionally even as you watch the action in fascination.

There's dramatic movie violence -- and then there's sadistic, nihilistic movie violence. If you've got a taste for the latter, Kidnapped should be right up your alley.

Let's see: In the new Green Lantern movie, yellow is the color of fear. Green is the color of will. So what is the color of tedium? Well, green and...

This slight coming-of-age tale works better than it has any right to, thanks to the performances by the young actors and several of the supporting cast.

Imagine penguins sledding on their stomachs down a slurry of spilled ice buckets in the middle of a black-tie charity event. If that sounds like a lot of laughs, then you're either a six-year-old or the ideal adult audience member for this movie.

Talk about mixed signals. First the New York Times runs a story about how the studios are losing faith in 3D as a money-maker. Which is good news -- ...

There is already a body of films devoted to the plight of undocumented immigrants, going all the way back to El Norte (1983) and, in recent years, inc...

"It's funny to be playing a mom," Elizabeth Reaser says with a laugh. "I mean, I'm not a mom in real life. I don't even have a dog." But Reaser is pl...

Cars 2 wins the award for the most unnecessary sequel of the year -- at least until someone makes another Jonah Hex movie. Yes, yes, I know - the 200...

If the title of Bad Teacher calls to mind Bad Santa, the resonance is deliberate: Here is a comedy full of inappropriate humor about someone filling a familiar role who couldn't be further from the figure of benevolent authority we expect.

No one is going to be putting The Best and the Brightest on any 10-best lists -- but if you're looking for a comedy that offers a handful of bawdy, vulgar laughs, look no further.