But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, "Snow White and the Huntsman" is a considerable ex….

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. W….

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty p….

I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me..

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss ….

Vincent Gallo has put a curse on my colon and a hex on my prostate. He called me a 'fat pig' in the New York Post and told the New York Observer I ha….

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica..

As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection for their characters. Raunchy….

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying….

The Academy is paranoid about its image..

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition..

If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pot….

In these days of high-tech video games, it's remarkable that kids once got incredibly thrilled while pushing little metal racing cars around a cardbo….

I am informed that 5,000 cockroaches were used in the filming of Joe's Apartment. That depresses me, but not as much as the news that none of them we….

Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more..

My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice..

A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each ….

Film theory has nothing to do with film..

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest th….

Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities..

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom..