When he’s not feeling compelled to decry the suburbs as the circle of hell which Dante dared not describe, director Sam Mendes actually has a sense of humor. It helps that the script, by husband-and-wife

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Adrien Brody, half of a fraternal team of swindlers whose long cons come with literary flourishes, longs for "an unwritten life." But Rian Johnson's moribund romp is so shellacked in style it can’t read more …

Michelle Pfeiffer uses her age to her advantage as Léa de Lonval, a famous courtesan of Belle Epoque Paris. While visiting former rival and current verbal sparring partner Charlotte (Kathy Bates),

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“There are no seasons in the American supermarket. You can get tomatoes all year round.” So begins Robert Kenner’s documentary on the U.S. food industry. Genetically engineered and grown in unnatural

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Mensch-y Doug (Justin Bartha) is getting hitched, so he rounds up his best friends — rakish school teacher Phil (Bradley Cooper), p-whipped dentist Stu (Ed Helms) and brother of the bride/possible

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The friendship between three of the 20th century's greatest artists — poet Federico García Lorca, painter Salvador Dalí and filmmaker Luis Buñuel — offers limitless possibilities for exploration, read more …

It's tearjerkin' time. Based on Jodi Picoult's best-seller, My Sister's Keeper tells the story of 11-year-old Anna Fitzgerald, who sues her parents for the right not read more …

According the audible sighs heard throughout the screening, the real star of Anne Fletcher's rom com is Ryan Reynolds' abs, which bodes well for the movie considering the rest of Reynolds and read more …

Cyrus Nowrasteh's high-minded melodrama begins when reporter Freidoune Sahebjam (Jim Caviezel) arrives in an Iranian village. Looking to have his car repaired, he's surprised to be accosted read more …

Forget the original (or read about it in Kaleidoscope), because Tony Scott's remake, complete with different spelling, is a different read more …

The special effects in Michael Bay's two-and-a-half-hour metallurgical wet dream are without peer — taking a cue from large-scale blockbusters like The Dark Knight, the alphamale director read more …

Carl Fredericksen is an awkward, earthbound tot obsessed with the newsreel adventures of a Zeppelin-borne explorer when he encounters Ellie (Elie Docter), the equally gangly, equally obsessed. The

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Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David) is a self-proclaimed genius who claims to have been a near-miss Nobel laureate in physics. He regards most of the human race unfit to inhabit the same universe he does.

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