In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a ….

The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces so….

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really importa….

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't po….

I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Mi….

Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might wa….

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the….

Everybody brings their thing to their criticism. I bring this wealth of opinions and feeling and knowledge about race and gender and sexuality. I fee….

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo..

The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something th….

Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation..

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again..

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era..

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York..

In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but ….

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and ma….

A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker is one thing, but its interpretation by an audience is some….

The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the ….

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films..

If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this." I try to take a longer view abou….

I don't need the audience, but sometimes it's nice to have a gauge - not so I know how I feel, but so I get what is or isn't working for moviegoers..