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The "aging-icon-looking-back-on-life" device is one of cinema's oldest, hoariest tricks, especially when it comes to biographies; Hollywood can never seem to resist the inexplicable allure of burying actors beneath layers of makeup and asking them to dodder to an Oscar nomination. Read more

The "aging-icon-looking-back-on-life" device is one of cinema's oldest tricks, especially when it comes to biographies; Hollywood can never seem to resist the inexplicable allure of burying actors beneath layers of makeup and asking them to dodder their way to an Oscar nomination. Read more

The teenage years can be tough for anyone, but they are especially so for Alike (Ah-lee-kah), a confused Brooklyn high-school student being pulled in opposite directions by her feuding parents and friends, and mostly by her dawning sexuality. Her story makes for a gripping feature directorial deb... Read more

Dennis Quaid's demented performance is one of the highlights of this not-so-scary thriller Read more

This wasn't the greatest year in recent memory for cinema: Audiences steered clear of the some of the most-challenging efforts, like Shame and Higher Ground. Many critics inexplicably rallied around the metaphysical bombast and pseudo-profun... Read more

In his long, justly lauded career, Steven Spielberg has made his share of bad movies: the bloated, unfunny war spoof 1941; the cloyingly whimsical romances, Always and The Terminal; the shockingly inept Read more

Michel Hazanavicius' black-and-white, mostly silent comedy The Artist is a gorgeously made curiosity -- a film that functions as a testament to its own obsession with other movies. Hazanavicius has lovingly re-created the look, feel and rhythms of silent movies, from t... Read more

Woody Allen comedy is his most satisfying film in years Read more

Both eager-to-please and more than a little bit annoying, Steven Spielberg's animated The Adventures of Tintin races from London to the Middle East, from the high seas to the open sky. Airplanes crash. Pirate ships capsize. Even a fat lady sings. The movie, which uses ... Read more

What happens when you hire a guy who makes animated movies to direct a big-budget Hollywood action thriller? Read more

Steve McQueen's thrilling second feature, Shame, takes place in a very distinct time and place, an overcast and chilly present-day New York City, and it focuses on an even more distinct pathology: the sexual addiction of a handsome business... Read more

Guilty pleasures don't get much more ignoble than 2010's Valentine's Day, a romantic comedy that followed two dozen or so characters, all played by famous Hollywood actors, implausibly falling in love in Los Angeles over the course of a single day. The storytelling was... Read more

Kermit, Fozzie, Miss Piggy and the rest of The Muppets are back, with the same winking humor and sweet honesty we've long adored. Read more

A corporate-style monolith corners the market on holiday retail, cruelly displacing its outmoded workforce and crassly insisting that any individuals who fall through the cracks are part of the cost of business. Read more

Martin Scorsese's Hugo is a children's film for grown-ups -- grown-up film buffs. Read more

Michelle Williams doesn't so much impersonate Marilyn Monroe as suggest her in the entertaining new bio-drama My Week With Marilyn. She doesn't have Monroe's overripe figure, Kewpie doll cheeks or 'C'mere and kiss me' lips. There's va-va without the voom. Read more

It’s hardly the kind of movie you would associate with a conservative-leaning town like Fort Worth. Then again, the sold-out crowd that turned out for Shame – British visual artist Steve McQueen’s controversial and altogether brilliant new drama about a sex addict in New Yor... Read more