All great movies -- and great movie endings -- stay in our memories as normal or indifferent ones never could. They're like great taglines -- their strength lies in the very fact that we can't forget them.

In anticipation of 12/21/12, this past year saw a return of the doomsday film. Melancholia was an okay end-of-the-world movie, but for this fan, it was not a very good Lars Von Trier film. Perhaps a third viewing is in order.

NEW YORK — The National Society of Film Critics selected Lars von Trier's drama "Melancholia" as the best picture of 2011 during its annual meet...

I realize 'tis the season for everyone and their brother to release their "best of" lists so I'm throwing in a twist... here are my top 20 moments in film this year followed by my top 11 favorites.

Melancholia offers one of the most luminous and ultimately heart-warming portrayals of mental illness that I have seen in a film.

Kirsten Dunst has been acting since she was 7 years old, when she starred in Woody Allen's short film "Oedipus Wrecks." Since her debut, she's been in...

Danish director Lars von Trier is known as a somewhat eccentric figure in Hollywood. He traffics in the uber-dark and landed in some hot water after N...

Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst will be co-stars once again. According to The Wrap, the "Elizabethtown" stars have joined the financial drama, "Citie...

Kirsten Dunst is lending a little thoughtfulness to R.E.M.'s latest (and last) music video, "We All Go Back To Where We Belong." After the long-tim...

Every time you look, a new film festival has surfaced, both here and abroad. In fact, year-round you could just surf one fest to the next, without missing a beat. Given this daunting surfeit, what makes the Hamptons International Film Festival zoom to the forefront?

If the world ends any time soon, as threatened for 2012, what will the last day on earth look like? That is the dominant conceit for two films in this year's New York Film Festival.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish film director Lars von Trier says he's facing charges of violating a French law against justification of war crimes...