The cowboy - rugged, stoic and resourceful - will always be a cinematic archetype, though the western has all but disappeared as a commercially popula...

Real Steel is real junk -- megamillion-dollar, computer-animated, state-of-the-art junk. It is meant to sell Dr. Pepper, Cadillac, iPhones and all the other products that have been so inartfully scattered throughout the movie.

To writer-director Mateo Gil, the western is the essence of the movies. Which is why his film Blackthorn is, in his words, "a very personal statement....

If you're too high-minded to get down in the mud with your opponent -- but your opponent can grab victory by playing dirty -- who's the winner?

Old-fashioned and predictable, there's still something moving and even uplifting about Emilio Estevez's film, The Way.

Given the zeitgeist about the death penalty and the execution of innocent people from the Troy Davis Case -- and the presidential campaign of Texas Gov. Rick Perry -- the timing couldn't be better for the release of the documentary, Incendiary: The Willingham Case.

Dirty Girl barely elicits a chuckle and, indeed, provokes groans with its obvious use of '80s artifacts.

Geez, Footloose sucked when it was a Kevin Bacon movie in 1984. Who thought remaking it, almost scene for scene and song for song, would improve it?

Joe Bailey, Jr., and Steve Mims set out to make one movie - and wound up with quite another, with Incendiary: The Willingham Case, which opened in New...

Pygmalion meets Frankenstein by way of the imagination of Pedro Almodovar in The Skin I Live In, as tensely creepy and compelling a film as the Spanish maestro has yet made.

Joel Schumacher's Trespass is one of those thrillers - like The Panic Room or, to go back to the source, The Petrified Forest or Desperate Hours - tha...

This is one of those thrillers that relies on the unreliability of cell phones for suspense. It also layers on a testy relationship between a pair of divorced cops (Worthington and the ever-present Jessica Chastain) who are forced to work together.

Every teacher's nightmare is being accused of violating the trust they've been given: doing something to abuse or harm one of their students. And, in...

How bad does your life have to get to surrender your being to the demands of a communal cult? How tentative does our grasp on our individual self need to be to give it up to the hive identity, led by one person's desires?

As underdog sports movies go, The Mighty Macs has plenty of spirit - but also a slavish devotion to the template of the "last-to-first" sports-film fo...

If you want a sense of what moral disintegration looks like in real time, look no further than J.C. Chandor's Margin Call, a fictional look at the near-collapse of a major investment bank, set against the context of the 2008 collapse.

In Norman, Norman (Dan Byrd) seems like a normal high-school kid: He's smarter than he probably knows, he feels like he's carrying world is on his sho...

Writer-producer Paul Marcarelli got the germ of the idea for his new film, The Green, when he noticed that, in dividing his time between his adopted h...

What kind of young-adult romance-drama wins Sundance? One that keeps you wondering just how happy its ending will prove to be. Happiness, indeed, is ...

When you've got a main character who's pretending to have cancer - and whose father is actually dying of the disease - and your movie is at least part...

Sprawling, bloody, romantic and witty, Roland Emmerich's Anonymous (opening Friday 10/28/11) captures the magic of the theater, even as it folds in th...

Puss in Boots 3D is about what you'd expect -- a two-dimensional comedy shown with technology to make you believe you're seeing something you're not. And one of the things you're not seeing -- or, rather, hearing -- is witty dialogue.

It's not a great movie, probably not even a very good movie. But Andrew Niccol's In Time is good enough to be proclaimed for what it is: a political f...