Ben Affleck is getting the best reviews of his career for "Argo," the third feature film he's directed since an adaptation of Dennis Lehane's "Gone Ba...

Dennis Lehane so rules the neighborhood of Noir ("Nwaaah," as we say in Boston) that he gets street credit for work he didn't write, like "The Departe...

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are a dynamic duo of director and actor. They have collaborated on movies before but their latest, Shutter Island, is their best effort yet.

Shutter Island pushes our conception of Scorsese to the brink. It tests him, proving that he has what it takes to navigate through the film's several time frames and planes of consciousness.

DiCaprio isn't just a star -- he's a smart, resourceful actor intimately in tune with his emotions and capable of nearly anything on screen.