Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon features one of the most borrowed/refigured/ripped-off/homaged plot structures in the history of movies. In it, a heinous crime [...]

Neatly vacuformed to a colorful cardboard backdrop, the sci-fi freneticism of Jumper is as slickly packaged as this year’s must-have action figure. And [...]

In an era when kids’ films seem almost as creatively bankrupt as romantic comedies, it’s refreshing (dare I say exciting ) to find [...]

The best thing about the new supernatural rom-com Over Her Dead Body is the title, which allows for plenty of creative interpretation. For [...]

Here’s a highly pertinent question regarding the new film Fool’s Gold : What kind of vacation suits you best? Are you the sort [...]

Computers can be fun. You can play Quake 4 on them. You can download porn on them. You can use them to communicate [...]

There’s something wonderful about painter-turned-filmmaker Julian Schnabel’s impressionistic biopic The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. But there’s also something vaguely frustrating in this [...]

Much-praised director Paul Thomas Anderson ( Boogie Nights, Magnolia ) ditches his popular ensemble-cast comedy/drama style for a dark, visually sparse single-character study. [...]

Employing weddings to make women cry ( Four Weddings and a Funeral, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Wedding [...]

Dark, gloomy, slow and depressing: You’ve got to give credit to Control for one thing: The film fits its subject matter like a [...]