There are those who love Napoleon Dynamite, and those who’d rather be serenaded by fingernails on a chalkboard ...

November 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of Disney’s The Little Mermaid...

It's hard to know sometimes whether the Coen brothers are ... well, not exactly pulling our collective leg, because it's pretty clear that they're authentically earnest with all their films ...

You could argue without fear of contradiction that Where the Wild Things Are is the most ambitious film ever conceived that was inspired by a 10-sentence-long picture book ...

About midway through John Hughes’ 1985 teen-angst classic The Breakfast Club, the five principal characters sit down for their afternoon nosh—Molly Ringwald with her neatly arranged sushi, Ally Sheedy and her Pixie Stix/smashed Cap’n Crunch sandwich, etc.

Filmmakers Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein spent a year recording a mission of liberal advocacy—so it’s all the more satisfying to find that No Impact Man isn’t just another liberal-advocacy documentary ...

To the extent that it's possible for any screenwriter to have carved out a niche for himself after only two theatrically released features, Robert Siegel may have done so.

Ah, I finally figured out why I’d had it in my head—after seeing trailers and TV ads—that The Informant! was a Coen Brothers movie ...

Once upon a time, if you saw a short film, you saw the work of someone who wanted to make a short film. Nowadays, that ain’t necessarily so ...

The fall movie season invariably brings its share of high-profile literary adaptations--this year including The Lovely Bones, The Road, Where the Wild Things Are.