Film Reviews

Pianist Thomas Selznick has done the nearly impossible, creating buzz for contemporary classical music. Much to his embarrassment, he did so by crashing and burning during an attempt to perform ...

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 ...

This will be one of the most wrenching O. Henry-esque stories most viewers could ever hope to see. ...

“The Legend of Hercules” does little to carry on the legacy of Hercules, proving only to be more ...

It’s not a gender thing, it’s a lawyer thing. It turns out that predatory divorce lawyers and judges, ...

The Russian mob does not have much in terms of pension and disability plans, so an aging courier ...

It has been a terrible year for photography. For many, an important form of art and journalism has ...

There’s no such thing as good Jack and bad Jack (Nicholson). There’s only vintage Jack and current Jack. ...

As the credits roll on “August: Osage County,” one thinks of a Coasters lyric: “Yakety yak and don't ...

Its restoration ran about five years late and millions of euros over budget. For roughly ten years, the ...

Under the shadow of nuclear containment domes, Arbor and his friend Swifty collect scrap metal with a horse-drawn ...