Reading a mystery, Aaron Katz admits, is a lot easier than writing one. That's what Katz found when, while writing the script for Cold Weather, openi...

Dressed has the feel of a puffed-up reality TV outing, and Vidal Sassoon feels like an infomercial, selling the 80-plus-year-old stylist.

Just as I began to lose patience with Aaron Katz's Cold Weather -- what? Another movie about twenty-somethings figuring out their lives? -- it took a left turn and grabbed my attention.

After I saw The Other Woman at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2009 (when it was being called Love and Other Impossible Pursuits), I wrote that...

Sanctum is the case of a movie that tries to do too much, without realizing what its real strengths are. Directed by Alister Grierson from a script b...

It's no mystery why Halle Berry would produce a film like Frankie & Alice for herself to star in. The film offers the kind of tour de force role that...

No, Feo Aladag admits with a laugh, she never intended to become an expert on the horrifying practice of honor killings. But if she was going to make ...

Too often, movie-makers can't tell the difference between right and wrong. Like The Rite -- which is way wrong.

Aladag's gripping film is not a sermon or lecture on honor killing. The term itself is never uttered. And yet the message is clear: In this society, women have the same rights as animals and are treated worse.

Sundance has transformed over the years from a film festival -- which implies the celebration of film and filmmakers -- into a film market, where products are bought and sold.

Kaboom is an enjoyably snide look at that generation that is coming to be known as Millennials, for which hooking up is as casual as eating lunch. They may have social consciences, but they don't let it get in the way of a good party.

Im Sang-soo's The Housemaid, opening in limited release, starts out looking like one thing, then shifts gears midway through to become something else ...

Ivan Reitman's No Strings Attached at least partially reclaims Reitman's reputation as a director, which, for a while, had made "An Ivan Reitman Film...

She's been a working actor for almost 30 years - having dropped out of Purchase College of the State University of New York to take a role on All My C...

With The Way Back, Peter Weir jumps the tracks, making a movie with amazing scope but little drama. The level of tension in the film is like a toothache -- constant, gnawing but not particularly enjoyable.

I may have seen her before, but it wasn't until I saw Applause that the name of actress Paprika Steen stuck in my head. Now I can't get her off my mind.

Yes, Stellan Skarsgard says, he's in the midst of filming David Fincher's version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the biggest export Sweden has pr...

Every Day swims in mock profundity and has the feel of a movie made specifically for a forgiving festival audience. Its good intentions are largely wasted.

The Green Hornet is a mixed bag -- not an abject failure, but still, not a film that recognizes its own strengths. It gets away with a lot -- and is often more entertaining and enjoyable than it has any right to be.

Vince Vaughn's motor-mouth riffing stopped being funny several films ago. So what we get now are movies as slack and slow-moving as The Dilemma.

This is a Scandinavian treat: a movie that reveals itself slowly, then goes places you didn't think it dared. Skarsgard proves once again that he's a leading man of depth and nuance.

Stephen Dorff has been a working actor since he was a pre-teen - and launched himself into features at 19 with The Power of One in 1992. But while he...

The sole suspense lies in figuring out which of the supporting players will survive the trip. That's because there's barely anything else of interest amidst the standard-issue action setpieces.

Bowser's documentary shows Ochs to be driven by his political beliefs, shattered by the deaths of John F. Kennedy and disillusioned by the ineffectiveness of protest against the Vietnam War.