Vera Farmiga

I feel as though I carved a solid four days of films out of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, concluding with a final day that offered four films, the best of which was at once mysterious and compelling.

Vera Farmiga is quickly becoming one of Hollywood's most sought-after leading ladies. Farmiga, who starred opposite George Clooney in "Up in the Air",...

"Christianity per se is not the film's subject, just the setting. Doubts and questions come to people within any faith or culture. And it's the questions that are essential no matter which religion or culture we come from."

In his sophomore effort, director Duncan Jones explores the same theme of a man alone and at the mercy of shadowy machinations that was explored in his rightly praised debut effort, Moon.

An oddball blend of crime tale and backstage comedy, Henry's Crime is a deadpan delight, an unexpected treat that offers the fire-and-ice teaming of Keanu Reeves and Vera Farmiga.

I can already see it at some virtual movie-revival house of the future: a "what-if?" double feature that teams Limitless and Source Code and points ou...

Images -- political and otherwise -- often have only the most tenuous relationship with reality. As it happened, that idea was a significant factor in several of the films I saw at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on Sunday.

On Thursday, the opening day of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, my actual Sundance day began and ended with the opening night screening of Susan Rost...

The sex of the baby is no longer Up In the Air -- it's a girl for Vera Farmiga. The Academy Award-nominated actress and husband Renn Hawkey welcome...

It looks like a terrible dream for Jake Gyllenhaal -- and a wild, fun ride for us. Gyllenhaal is back in soldier fatigues in his new movie, 'Source C...

Actress Vera Farmiga and her husband Renn Hawkey attended the opening night of The Metropolitan Opera in New York Monday night. Farmiga, 37, is preg...

Winter's Bone is unusual in its willingness to focus on characters living below the poverty line, without making poverty -- or drug addiction -- the focus of the film.

Mo'Nique picked up the Golden Globe for her performance as an abusive welfare mom in 'Precious,' but will she go on to win the best supporting actress...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — "Avatar" is a dreamy space fantasy that has made more money than any movie in history. "The Hurt Locker" is a ground-lev...

As a boozing, promiscuous truck driver in the independent film Trucker, actress Michelle Monaghan delivers the finest, most fully-realized performance of her career.

Up in the Air is not revolutionary and its thesis, however insightful, is not one-of-a-kind. But it is the kind of thing we used to take for granted in Hollywood. It is well-written and sharply observational.

As an audience we are rooting for the well-oiled clichè of boy meets girl. What sets Up in the Air apart is its willingness to divert from the superficial and go inside to the uncomfortable truth of life.

I've been touting Up in the Air as the year's best film since I saw it in Toronto in September -- and I still haven't seen anything that has changed my mind.

We talked to director Jason Reitman, stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick, and author Walter Kirn about their timely Up in the Air, a beautiful film about job loss and human connection.

Before, we were talking about an exceptionally sophisticated indie film with a big star, George Clooney, in the lead. Now we are looking at Up in the Air as a wunder-film that hits the Zeitgeist just so, landing on every top ten list.