Jason Reitman's staged live-readings of famous movie scripts has become a must-see Los Angeles event, but the next one will pay tribute to the big cit...

Young Adult is clearly set up as award bait for Charlize Theron, who gets the chance to be unlikable in almost every way.

Bless screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman their twisted, little hearts. Young Adult isn't season-specific, but it does serve as a healthy counterbalance to all that holiday growth and belonging.

Prepare yourself for something inconceivable! Jason Reitman stopped by "The Tonight Show" to promote his deliciously awkward high school comedy, "...

The Descendants is my favorite film of the year for its ability to find the pain, dignity and humor in the story of a man watching his way of life die, even as he has to act as steward to its demise.

Diablo Cody had a choice to make. After disappointing critics and audiences with her 2010 film, "Jennifer's Body," the Oscar-winning screenwriter bega...

People in Minnesota have this reputation for being "nice" that Diablo Cody seems determined to undermine -- which she does in slashingly funny style in Jason Reitman's Young Adult.

High school is one of the few experiences that never leaves us. Whether you're headed to the cafeteria this minute or making plans for your 50th reuni...

"What I wish they would tell kids in high school is that you have to understand that high school is an artificially compressed ecosystem where it's al...

Young Adult is a surprisingly potent and insightful dramedy, all the more effective for its understated nature and its off-the-cuff black comedy construction.

Theron's Mavis is the classic narcissist: cut off from objective reality, lacking any concern for other people, insecure in private but willing in public to ride roughshod over anyone and everything in order to gratify her whims.

One of the great joys of "Young Adult" is that its protagonist, Charlize Theron's Mavis Gary, is unrelenting in her awfulness: she's coarse, self-indu...

Charlize Theron is really showing off her range nowadays. The Oscar-winner, who is starring as the ruthless, youth-sucking evil queen in "Snow White a...

While she has tip-toed her way back on to the scene, with baby Aleph in tow, Natalie Portman will be returning to Hollywood Friday night for her first...

If Rian Johnson is looking for a story for his next film, he need look no further than his own Twitter feed. The quirky writer/director, who helmed...

Sure, she's not a serial killer, but Charlize Theron's new role doesn't cast her in a very sweet light at all. Theron, who won a Best Actress Oscar f...

Even though there's another "Bridget Jones" in the works, she might have some competition. Jason Reitman, who's churned out quirky, colorful hits ...

True love is so rare in this world, you've got to take it where you can get it. Though when it's with a convicted murderer, things are a bit dicier. ...

Despite the old plot chestnut of crashing a wedding, Ceremony feels quirky and heart-felt. It fashions comedy from, one suspects, the filmmaker's pain, creating a direct pipeline from life to screen.