This year’s second attempt at presidential biography falls short because it’s unsure where it’s going.

 

 

There’s always one film that causes audiences to jeer … in part because it gets a bit too close.

 

 

Violence, exploitation, cultural commentary: vintage Tarantino.

 

 

It doesn’t try to be the book, which is a good thing in the long run.

 

 

Gus van Sant takes a diplomatic approach to the fracking issue, so long as you don’t watch the last twenty minutes.

 

 

This if 40 is ambitious, but is drowned by shallow characters and disjointed scenes.

 

 

Meticulous and without soundtrack, After Lucia is cold, eerie, and stunning.

 

 

Les Miserables is, at times, emotionally charged; at others, it goes through the motions.

 

 

Kathryn Bigelow chronicles the decade-long manhunt for America’s Most Wanted.