Bernie Tiede, the cheerful undertaker played to flouncy perfection by Jack Black in Richard Linklater’s Bernie, is a nice guy. Sure, he shot a defenseless old lady to death at close range with a hunting rifle, but it was just ...

From the title’s allusion to Greek mythology on down, Ridley Scott and screenwriters Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof are intent on bringing the director’s recent trademark of handsome self-seriousness to the production.

It takes a special kind of man to scare the bejesus out of bad guys while wearing a purple polo shirt. Indian actor and stuntman Akshay Kumar is exactly that sort of guy in Rowdy Rathore, a frothy, violent Bollywood ...

Sound of My Voice, a vaguely creepy and strangely bubbly thriller about a cult leader who could either be a savior from the future or a dangerous criminal (or perhaps both), has much in common with its enigmatic main character: ...

Although Dark Shadows is not nearly the laff riot portrayed in the trailer, it doesn’t take its source material very seriously. But for those seeking a cool respite from the summer-movie season of explosive bombast, it’s a pleasant bit of ...

As novel as it seems for Joss Whedon to have brought together the four Marvel Studios franchises into one tentpole film in The Avengers, it’s been inevitable for as long as there have been movie blockbusters.

As much as it continues in the same fashion as their previous films, Belgian writer/directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid With a Bike brings to mind/nods to a few other finely observed urban realist gems, specifically Vittorio De Sica’s ...

There can’t be many situations more frustrating than the one in which Yoshikazu Ono finds himself in the new documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi.

Don’t read this review. If you’ve made it this far without anyone spoiling the surprises lurking in The Cabin in the Woods, don’t let me be the jerk who ruins it for you.

Any action fan who watches the Wales-born, Indonesia-based Gareth Evans’ new film The Raid: Redemption will recognize an epochal action prodigy/game changer at work and want him to make many more like it as soon as possible. To put it ...

No matter how hard you try, you really can’t go back. And to prove it, here’s a dull, unfunny and accidentally depressing installment in a franchise whose best years are clearly behind it.

Hollywood will try to sell you Snow White twice in two months this year, and at first glance Tarsem Singh’s Mirror Mirror looked like the loser. The only obvious sin of June’s self-serious adventure Snow White and the Huntsman is ...

Director Gary Ross, working from a script that he co-wrote with Hollywood writer Billy Ray and Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins, has crafted a solid adventure flick that will please the trilogy’s fans and win it more than a few ...

Lynne Ramsay’s films have all had an instinctual quality, but this time her instincts fail her as often as not.

As long as one-liners and blue Martian blood are flying, John Carter is endearing and entertaining. When it stops to catch its breath, though, it has a tendency to take itself a bit too seriously.