The film might be called "It's Complicated," but it's really not. Take one predictable script, then add a few romantic-comedy cliches. Be smart enough to mix in two stars with more presence than most other...
How did a director virtually unknown in America land the job of making the film of "The Road"? Published November 27, 2009
Sometimes it seems no one in Hollywood is capable of learning a simple lesson: You can't replicate a sui generis success. Published June 5, 2009 ...
"Easy Virtue" is a classic tale of culture clash between aristocratic England and brash America. The 1924 play was written by Noel Coward, a man equally comfortable in British high society and Las Vegas...
"Adoration" is a film both deeply intelligent and deeply felt, a mature addition to what might already be called one of the medium's most impressive bodies of work. Published ...
"The Merry Gentleman," Michael Keaton's directorial debut, might seem familiar territory for him. It has all the elements of the type of thriller in which he's played the bad guy before. Published ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously declared, "There are no second acts in American lives." Try telling that to Marion Barry. Published June 19, 2009 ...
Finally — Sam Mendes has made a movie with more than a note of optimism in it. Published June 12, 2009
It is exceedingly brave for a man who directed such cinematic classics as "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now" to embark on a new career as an experimental filmmaker at an age when most Americans have...
It caused something of a stir when "Departures" won this year's Oscar for foreign-language film. Published June 19, 2009
The man who directed the third film on the American Film Institute's top-100 list — "The Godfather" was beaten only by "Citizen Kane" and "Casablanca" — no longer wants to be thought of as...
"Whatever Works" marks Woody Allen's return, after four films in Europe, to the cinematic New York he helped create. His re-entry isn't simply one of location. The film's a throwback to the old-school...
Stanley Kubrick never made an adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel. If he had, it might have looked something like "Moon." Published July 10, 2009 ...
A personal story, idiosyncratically told, "(500) Days" itself has a writing-as-therapy feel. "This is a story of boy meets girl," a narrator tells us at the opening. "But you should know upfront it's not...
"The Ugly Truth," judging by its trailer, is just another formulaic romantic comedy. Just as you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, you shouldn't always judge a film by its trailer. Published ...
Talking to Jim Cummings is like being in a reverse "Enchanted" -- you feel like a real person who somehow has stepped into an animated world. Published July...
The French have been blessed for many years with great artists — and now a talented filmmaker finally has brought a little-known one to life. Published ...
Filmmaker Jeffrey Levy-Hinte was in the District to present "Soul Power" at the Silverdocs film festival in June, right around the time authorities in Iran and China were blocking their citizens' access...
Sophie Barthes' feature debut, the dark, metaphysical comedy "Cold Souls," could be described as Charlie Kaufman meets Woody Allen by way of Russian and Czech literature, but it also marks the arrival...
"Captain Abu Raed" is an intriguing glimpse at a little-known world and a moving testament to the potential that exists there as much as anywhere else — although even its inhabitants have trouble...
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