You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it ….

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners..

Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting characters into sit….

I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but ar….

My reaction to 'Sin City' is easily stated. I loved it. Or, to put it another way, I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I loved every gorgeous sick di….

The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself..

Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster..

My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international aut….

What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by increasing his heart rate he'll trans….

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived)..

Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through..

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered..

Still, you can't complain about the number of movies being made. Never have the means of making movies been so accessible to so many. The problem is ….

If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's just so very bad. You can have a ….

You can feel righteous fury in every frame of The Magdalene Sisters. The movie is both a masterpiece and a holy hell: Watching it, you feel you're be….

It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more tha….

Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after another. But in the end, it's shapeless and b….

There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short that she can't even maint….

Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the superhero's life: This is ….

Along with my peers, I gripe about the increasing number of superhero films, and I'm sad that so many critics so uncritically use words like franchis….

Cillian Murphy is the guy who battled viral zombies in '28 Days Later' and put a gas-spewing bag over his head in 'Batman Begins'. With his pallor, c….