Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything tha….

Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic..

I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two hours, but ….

It's impossible to tell what's going on at any given moment in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; it's even harder to care about being able to tell..

You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes..

We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is th….

The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting..

There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significa….

Pan's Labyrinth works on so many levels that it seems to change shape even as you watch it. It is, at times, a joyless picture, and its pall of sadne….

Oldboy makes us feel a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a grand, gritty, indelible experience, the sort of picture that mimics great lit….

Children of Men is a solemn, haunting picture, but it's also a thrilling one, partly because of the sheer bravado with which it's made. It left me fe….

The scariest thing in it may be the way the clock radio has a way of turning itself on, loudly, of its own accord. The song is always the Carpenters'….

Ewan McGregor stars as Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, again doing a fine Alec Guinness impersonation but otherwise seeming lost and alone in the galaxy as the ….

It's guilty of the very thing that makes kids hate history as a subject when it's taught badly: The Da Vinci Code makes the past feel like a dull, gr….

It's time to start recognizing that not all escapist entertainment is created equal. And that some of it isn't even entertainment. "Miss March" is, t….

While "9 Songs" is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it..

This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment des….

This film "Phantom" takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat..

"Batman Begins" leaks existential phoniness from the first frame..