POSTED // Apr 22,2011 - The idea of the painfully realistic superhero story—the sort of thing where a potential do-gooder realizes that donning a cape and tights is harder than it looks ...

POSTED // Apr 22,2011 - Two best friends fall for the same person—what story could be more achingly familiar and rich with storytelling possibilities?

POSTED // Apr 15,2011 - For years, I’ve been laboring under the misapprehension that there was no way to make the conventional courtroom drama any more tedious and inert ...

POSTED // Apr 15,2011 - When you’ve reached the end of Abbas Kiarostami’s stunning, dizzying Certified Copy, tell me how you’d define the relationship between the two main characters ...

POSTED // Apr 8,2011 - It’s been 30 years since Dudley Moore staggered drunkenly through the original Arthur, and despite placing on an American Film Institute list of great American comedies ...

POSTED // Apr 8,2011 - Let’s face it: Film rarely seems terribly concerned about matters of religious faith ...

POSTED // Apr 1,2011 - In 1996, director Franco Zeffirelli made the most recent big-screen adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre ...

POSTED // Apr 1,2011 - There are many things that could have derailed The Music Never Stopped. Only because it avoided nearly all of them is the film able to focus on a surprisingly touching relationship.

POSTED // Mar 25,2011 - If you’re reading this section of the website, odds are you’re A. someone over the age of 18, and B. someone who is interested in what’s going on in movie theaters ...

POSTED // Mar 25,2011 - You can spot the thesis in the majority of documentaries, as filmmakers understandably tend to devote their energy toward subjects ...