19 Sep 2008
Plumed feathers, powdered wigs and corseted libidos abound in "The Duchess," but for all its luscious period trappings and Keira Knightley's spirited take .. read more
19 Sep 2008
“A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” is a gentle, pleasantly unrushed piece of moviemaking. There’s a tonic simplicity to how it gets the job done, and .. read more
3 Oct 2008
Fernando Meirelles' Blindness was adapted from the novel written by Portuguese Nobel-laureate Jose Saramago. The novel follows a singular woman who somehow .. read more
3 Oct 2008
Did you ever wonder who fine-tuned the technology behind the intermittent windshield wiper? Neither did I until I caught Marc Abraham's Flash of Genius, .. read more
3 Oct 2008
Remember how shocking (not) it was when The Devil Wears Prada taught us how insane the workplace is at a high-gloss fashion magazine very much like Vogue? .. read more
3 Oct 2008
Brimming with energy, elan and the unpredictability of his "Something Wild," Jonathan Demme's triumphant "Rachel Getting Married" may just lay the wedding .. read more
3 Oct 2007
You have nothing to lose but your inhibitions. That, in sum, is the underlying message of Bill Maher and Larry Charles’ brilliant, incendiary .. read more
3 Oct 2008
After shipwrecking with "Swept Away" and misfiring with "Revolver," Brit filmmaker Guy Ritchie bounces back to top form with "RocknRolla," a cleverly .. read more
10 Oct 2008
Neither the location-based verisimilitude of Ridley Scott's shooting style nor the estimable Middle East expertise of source-material author David Ignatius .. read more
10 Oct 2008
Crowdpleasing and oh-so-predictable, "The Express" is a muscular movie with social conscience that portrays Ernie Davis -- the first African-American .. read more