Beaming brides and welling grooms say them thousands of times every day, and mean them, but they are heavy words indeed: “Till death do us part.”

It took me an embarrassingly long time to key into the fact that Warm Bodies is essentially just an inevitable variation on the post-Twilight girl-loves-monster formula.

Really, Jacques Adiard’s emotionally devastating Rust and Bone is two films in one. At its core, it’s an unlikely love story between two flawed, broken, battered people, pulled together by the same animalistic instincts that eventually tear them apart. Then ...

Few movies have ever been as carefully calculated to appeal to red-state America as The Last Stand, a film that, taken at face value, would have NRA honcho Wayne LaPierre’s eyes rolling back in his head from the sheer, orgiastic ...

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.

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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.