Film Reviews

Remember Tony Curtis in the naughty Euro-farce “The Amorous Mis-Adventures of Casanova”? Sure you don’t, but forget it anyway. This incarnation of the aging rogue is worlds removed from Curtis’s ...

Vivian Maier was a much better photographer than she was a nanny, but nobody knew during her relatively ...

“Son of God” brought back the time of Caesar Augustus. “Cesar Chavez” brings back the time of Cesar ...

In communist Romania, it was not what you knew, but who you knew and whether you informed on ...

With a name like that, there is only one thing he could be: a corrupt cop—or at least ...

Wes Anderson makes great kid movies. Grown-up movie-wise, Wes’s weird world makes the reviewer weary. He had the ...

A former Miss Brittany, Bettie has always been able to turn men’s heads, but that does not necessarily ...

For some hardcore table soccer players, only absolutely clean goals count. That is more stringent than the rules ...

The remnants of Zack Snyder’s “300,” which hit theaters in 2007, are the unforgettable Internet memes of Gerard ...

Pianist Thomas Selznick has done the nearly impossible, creating buzz for contemporary classical music. Much to his embarrassment, ...

She is a one-person drug mule and agent of death. Not surprisingly, she is very much inclined to ...

As Oskar Schindler, Liam Neeson won an Oscar. Now he’s Action-man. Some people complain about this. “How could ...

Those who question Russia’s commitment to sustainability should at least give them credit for recycling their titles. In ...

When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, many of us worried that our close Japanese friends and ...

Jiro Horikoshi is a Studio Ghibli character Tony Stark would approve of. He was the engineer responsible for ...

What is Robocop? He’s a quadriplegic Ironman without the rocket-booster. And both Robocop and Ironman are basically Terminators ...

"Child's Pose" might be viewed as a family drama, but as it more than hints at a criticism ...

Ethnologist and psychoanalyst Georges Devereux credited his time in the field with Native Americans for his return toward ...

In his book “The War of Art,” Steven Pressfield describes “resistance” as the bane of all artists. Fiendishly ...

When first hearing about “The Lego Movie,” the reviewer thought it might be like YouTube’s hilarious “Death Star ...

In most lifeboat scenarios, it is women and children first. That is not necessarily the case for the ...

He was a figurehead in a Potemkin village. Set up as a “model ghetto” to deceive the International ...

The sheer scarcity of Johannes Vermeer’s paintings is guaranteed to maintain the art world’s fascination. It was partly ...

This is a rather bold programming choice, considering how many attending Sundance have flown in from New York ...

Tales abound of movie stars’ contracts that only allow them to be shot from flattering angles.In this age ...

Which of the following is not a spy—James Bond, Jack Bauer, Jason Bourne? Correct answer: they’re all licensed-to-kill ...

They would have been Germany’s best and brightest. Instead, a generation of future leaders was ground-up and consumed ...