Kathryn Bigelow’s mastery turns a largely spying-free spy movie into one of the best films of 2012.

Equal parts disaster movie, horror film, and melodrama, the Spanish production The Impossible is a harrowing and incredibly moving account of a family’s attempts to reunite after the 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami separates them.

The best movies of the year, according to our critics.

Django Unchained is undoubtedly indulgent, but man, is it ever fun.

The trilogy’s first installment, An Unexpected Journey, lives up to the visual splendor of the original Rings films, laced with rich humor and a sweetly innate innocence. But unlike those earlier epics, Journey also feels bloated and a tad strained—a ...

On its surface, this is a film about a film, but the heart of the movie is the relationship between Hitchcock and Alma Reville (Helen Mirren), the filmmaker’s wife and creative collaborator. Though she spent most of her professional life ...

There are no good guys in Killing Them Softly. There’s no honor among thieves, no code of ethics that keeps the film’s seedy underworld from caving in on itself. It’s a world where compassion means shooting someone in the head ...

Here’s a question to ponder: Why are most contemporary romantic comedies so godawful?

If you’re the kind of person who actually has a favorite president, there’s a good chance it’s Abraham Lincoln. Few historical figures are as enigmatic as America’s 16th commander-in-chief, who led the nation through periods of both extreme crisis (the ...

Less than a year ago, the Mission: Impossible franchise offered Ghost Protocol as a new standard in name-brand espionage adventure; next to Skyfall, it looks kind of like an old James Bond movie.

The Man With the Iron Fists is a direct hit at a target audience, and damned if most of them won’t be on board from the moment bearded Chinese dudes start wailing on each other.

em>Cloud Atlas is a spectacle, that much is for sure.

If you don’t go into The Perks of Being a Wallflower at least a bit skeptical, you’re probably delusional. After all, most film dramas aimed at a teenage audience are either embarrassingly precious or totally wrapped up in their own ...

Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone and The Town were two of the best crime dramas to come out of America in the past decade—taut, claustrophobic tales of men and women straining at their leashes in the tiny, blue-collar neighborhoods that ...

Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has gone Hollywood with Seven Psychopaths, an ultra-violent (and ultra-funny) deconstruction of the fast-talking, self-knowing crime capers that came into fashion with Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.