It's tempting to think of Aki Kaurismaki (The Match Factory Girl, La vie de bohème) as the Jim Jarmusch of northern Europe. With his deadpan...

With Together, the director of the acclaimed Chinese historical epics Farewell My Concubine and The Emperor and the Assassin has crafted a m...

Gifted character actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is perfectly cast as socially awkward golden boy Dan Mahowny in this chronicle of the real-lif...

Even the tagline to the new crime thriller Confidence — "It's not the money. It's the money" — smacks of a grift. The movie bends over backw...

You've probably read it in the gossip pages but If not, let me sum it up: Colin Farrell went full frontal in A Home at the End of the World...

Acclaimed genre director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's movies are typically rather "un-Japanese" affirmations of the soundness of irrationality, and hi...

Eternally quotable raconteur, aesthete and "first modern man" Oscar Wilde once remarked, "Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous bod...

Identity's saving grace comes with a third-act revelation that successfully transforms it from a future staple of the discount bin at your l...

It's hard to resist calling this the thinking man's First Blood. Truth by told though, any man solidly satisfied with such pointlessness cou...

Why is it that in the movies cool, outsider-type guys always fall for feminine stereotypes? Like a pre-Iran/Contra Lloyd Dobler, Nicolas Cag...

Amnesia seems to follow Guy Pearce around. First, he was haunted by severe short-term memory loss as he searched for his dead wife's killer...

Casting non-actors in starring roles is always a gamble. Casting child non-actors in starring roles can be tantamount to insanity. Fortunate...

If you're going to title your movie American Wedding, you better have something archetypal in mind. Not just "a wedding" (indie scamp Robert...

As the old Australian adage goes, it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll. Especially if you suck. It's not giving anything aw...

In Johnny English, pigeon-like funny man Rowan Atkinson's titular British secret agent is so Clouseau-esque he might consider changing his n...

What's with all the allusions to ancient Greek mythology in the latest big-screen tale of the swashbuckling Arabian Knight, Sinbad? This par...

First-time feature director Stambrini refers to her film, which translates less poetically to "Gas," as a "static road movie," but it's more...

"Life has taught me that all men are dogs and all women are bitches," says Fitzgerald, who not only wrote and directed The Wild Dogs, but al...

Someone ought to abduct Samantha Morton, shrink her down and permanently adhere her to the celluloid of a Mike Leigh film. Morton is the bea...

Ah, Al Pacino, the Dr. Jekyll of future screen legends. It can never be truly foretold which side of Pacino will arise from the murky silver...