What do we talk about when we talk about Oscar bait? We may fixate on accuracy in based-on-a-true-story showcases, be wowed over the physical...
In 2003, when the Kenyan government offered free education to all citizens, an 84-year-old villager showed up at the gates of his local primary...
We’re so used to amped-up white-knucklers that the controlled approach of a filmmaker like Roman Polanski is immediately seductive. The...
In the first Karate Kid (a movie that should now be considered a classic), teenage Daniel and his Jersey mom settle in Reseda, a modest...
A smart horror film will fatten its pigs before the slaughter, and the mock doc The Last Exorcism feeds its prize hog nicely. 'That’s...
During the Bush era, it was pretty hard to make a military comedy. The armed forces tended to be presented as either noble or amoral but seldom as...
Facebook isn’t such a great subject for the movies—too much typing. And heroic computer hackers have never, ever inspired cinematic thrills....
Sunnyside, the day-care center where the delightful new Toy Story occurs, might be a paradise—especially for Woody (Hanks), Buzz (Allen)...
Russia, 1910. In his old age, Leo Tolstoy has become so famous worldwide that the merest hint he’s about to pop his clogs sends newsreel...
”What am I now?” asks the extraordinary Saoirse Ronan, her eyes welling. “The dead girl? The lost girl? The missing girl?...
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