If I were picking a Jeff Bridges role that I thought would represent his finest work, and bring him the attention he has so long deserved as one of America’s best actors, it probably wouldn’t be his performance in Crazy Heart ...

How much do you have to love movies to trudge through a week like this one?

The Slamdance Independent Film Festival is now celebrating its Sweet 16. My, how quickly they grow up ...

On paper, it probably seemed to Peter Jackson that he had a take on Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones that was inherently more cinematic—more “movie-ish”—than the story Sebold told ...

Even if you hate remakes, the announcement of Bad Lieutenant—Port of Call: New Orleans had to be at least somewhat easier to take ...

Maybe the year’s troubles made its great comedies even more satisfying ...

Nancy Meyers probably wasn’t going for irony with the title of her new comedy It’s Complicated ...

Do you really care how much it cost to make and/or market James Cameron’s Avatar? The entertainment media sure seems convinced that we do ...

As awards season kicks into high gear, commentators are going to talk about Up in the Air in terms of its timely attention to economic instability and corporations that feast on the carrion of the down-sized ...

Fifteen years ago, there was no American director I would have trusted more with material like Invictus than Clint Eastwood ...