The romantic teenage drama Blue Is the Warmest Color is notable for a number of reasons. This unabashed look at homosexual teenage love [...]

What is the purpose of movies? Is it to entertain? Is it to educate? To evoke an emotional response? Ideally all three. But [...]

The Middle Eastern drama Wadjda feels especially poignant, coming out as it does mere weeks after 16-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai (targeted for [...]

Tom Hanks is so damn likable that sometimes you just don’t want to like him. The urge is to push back against his [...]

[photo] When a song by The Replacements comes on the radio, my face almost always melts into a grimace. But there’s one song, [...]

Over the years former child actor Ron Howard has proven himself a workmanlike, mainstream director—like Steven Spielberg minus the awe-inspiring sense of wonder. [...]

“How would you feel?” That’s the question relentlessly and repeatedly asked by Terence Nance’s wonderfully inventive, playfully experimental first feature An Oversimplification of [...]

In the retro-sleazy biopic The Look of Love, British comedian/actor Steve Coogan and fellow countryman/director Michael Winterbottom reunite for the fourth time following [...]

High school-based films—from 1955’s Blackboard Jungle to 1985’s The Breakfast Club to 1995’s Clueless to 2004’s Mean Girls—have always driven teenage culture far [...]

Documentaries about how we human beings are screwing up the planet, destroying our environment, messing with the food chain and treating our cousins [...]