Detective film 'Missing' the point

"The Missing Person" follows a private detective whose overwhelmingly lazy nature makes the film difficult to endure.

11/20/2009

A brighter 'New Moon'

"New Moon" is an improvement from "Twilight," featuring wonderful chemistry among its actors, but continuing to perpetuate the same problematic gender roles.

11/20/2009

Love is blindness in 'Embraces'

Penélope Cruz stuns in Pedro Almodóvar's newest film, "Broken Embraces," a complex love story with dazzling imagery.

11/19/2009

New website aims to promote student films

The new web-based entertainment network DFD-TV, designed to showcase indie films, offers free exposure and flexibility to film students.

Resurrecting Stoppard's classic

Two minor characters from "Hamlet" get into hilariously circular arguments in a production of Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead."

11/17/2009

Globalization has family problems

Director Lukas Moodysson's new, "Babel"-like film makes valid social commentary, but falls short in its emotional power.

11/17/2009

Why fantastic is wonderful

"Fantastic Mr. Fox," Wes Anderson's adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl children's tale, is a sight to behold and a story to think about.

11/17/2009

A refreshingly believable disaster occurs in '2012'

At last, director Roland Emmerich has created a disaster movie that's realitic, entertaining and exhilarating.

11/13/2009

'Uncertainty' adheres to Tolstoyan storytelling

"Uncertainty," a film from writer/director duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel, shows a great amount of potential but ultimately leaves much to be desired.

11/13/2009

'The Messenger' bears its bad news brilliantly

Israeli director Oren Moverman's latest film follows two Iraq War messengers (Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster) as they inform families of their deceased kin.