"Disgrace" is only director Steve Jacobs and writer Anna Maria Monticelli's second film. Yet for this sophomore project, they had the enviable job of adapting a masterpiece by Nobel Prize-winning novelist...
John Keats was one of the first figures whose inspired work and tragic life paved the way for the celebrity culture we live in today. So it's surprising that Hollywood has taken this long to put his life...
"Paris" is not the definitive movie about the titular French capital — but it's a masterful one. Published September 25, 2009
J.M. Coetzee's cutting novel of sex and power in post-apartheid South Africa has been brought to the big screen with all of the loneliness and most of the intelligence of the novel intact. Published...
Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, "Whip It," is a little like her on-screen persona — tough but girlish, with a deep sense of vulnerability floating just under the hard surface. Published ...
If you come away from "Coco avant Chanel" disappointed that the film has almost none of the brilliant designs that made its title character famous, you can't say you weren't warned: The title is, after...
Clive Owen isn't exactly known as a softie. But in "The Boys Are Back," the actor is at his most lost and vulnerable. Published October 2, 2009 ...
Amelia Earhart, the new film about her tells us, was once the most famous woman in America. She must have been a fascinating woman — but you wouldn't know it watching the slick but unsatisfying "Amelia."...
Peter Morgan has imagined the inside story of a president ("Frost/Nixon"), a prime minister ("The Deal"), a tyrant ("The Last King of Scotland") and a monarch ("The Queen"). Now the screenwriter has turned...
Watching "This Is It" sometimes feels too disturbingly intimate. The limited-engagement film was compiled from video recorded at Michael Jackson concert rehearsals. He died days after some of the film...
MOVIE REVIEW: Watching this backstage peek at an extraordinary performing artist's creative process sometimes feels a little too disturbingly intimate. Published ...
Lone Scherfig was not the obvious choice to direct "An Education" — though producers must be glad they chose her. Published October 30, 2009 ...
"The Maid" ("La nana") is a character study, and though — like many in the genre — it moves deliberately and unhurriedly, it's a gutsy one. That's because the woman at the center of this Chilean...
George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter — the names bandied around for Greatest American Songwriter are a familiar bunch. Less well-known are the handles of the Sherman Brothers, yet their songs...
Any human being could understand what was wrong with South Africa's racist system of apartheid. But one woman's circumstances best exposed the absurdity in the system to those who perpetuated it. Published...
There have been many movies about older men seducing younger women — but few so beguiling as "An Education." That's because the film is about a number of other age-old stories, too. Published ...
"Everybody's Fine," a remake of the Italian film "Stanno tutti bene," is something of a departure for veteran actor Robert De Niro, who is not known as an understated artist. Published ...
"Even a palace could be a prison," declares the woman about to inherit the throne of what was about to become the most powerful empire on earth. Published ...
"Broken Embraces" is certainly moody, and that's one of its charms. But behind the style is disappointing substance, a melodramatic story that's as old as Hollywood. Published ...
"Hallelujah!" Sarah, Duchess of York, exclaims to this reporter in a car en route from Washington to Alexandria on her recent whirlwind visit to the area. All I've said is that I'd like to talk about the...
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