"New Moon" is elegant and occasionally moving - a leap beyond last year's Twilight.

Actor/director Tony Jaa and co-director Panna Rittikrai didn't come up with much of story to go with what might be one of the best martial-arts fight scenes ever.

Most films about alien invasion aren't about humans taking over another planet, but the scattershot "Planet 51" is just that. It has its moments, but it lacks focus.

Even by the sadistic standards of Lars von Trier ("Breaking the Waves," "Dogville"), "Antichrist" is a unique form of cruel and unusual punishment: an unrelenting orgy of graphic sex, violence and cynicism that also manages to be wildly pretentious.

Woody Harrelson vividly reminds us here that he's not just a drawling punch line, a handy hunk of comic relief or ace zombie killer. And Ben Foster of "3:10 to Yuma" is terrific.

Pixar's adventurous fable -- one of 2009's finest films -- leads the new release pack for the week of Nov. 10.

An overly slick heist film leads the pack of this week's new releases.

Cracked British farce and bilious New York navel-gazing lead the wave of new releases for the week of Oct. 27.

Mickey Rourke's Oscar-nominated performance can't lift this tired sports movie off the mat.

The DVD release of Beverly Hills Chihuahua gives us an excuse to reprise our masterful DFW Chihuahua video.

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon," also known as "Twilight: The Squeakquel," is actually pretty good - a tick better than the first "Twilight," which wasn't bad either. These are hardly superlatives on the order of "shattering" and "beautiful," but compared to the film versions of "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons," the only two movies ever made with less sex than the first two "Twilights," they're matchless.

Uplifting. Heartwarming. Schmaltzy but effective. Watching "The Blind Side," I felt my emotions being stage-managed, but once or twice I got something in my eye. It's inspired by a feel-good true story of interracial adoption and gridiron glory. The project could have been designed by scientists synthesizing the crowd-pleasing-movie genome. Bullock + football + Kumbaya = Ka-ching!

"Quirky." "Eccentric." "Whimsical." Critics trot out the synonyms for "playful" and "odd" when talking about Wes Anderson. A 40-year-old director of wistful character comedies peopled with lovable screwballs - "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums" - he brings it all on himself, inviting the label "patron saint of moody hipster comedies" that Newsweek hangs on him.

A prominent mainland Chinese director banned by Beijing from making movies brought his new gay romance film to Hong Kong on Friday for what is likely the last of a handful of screenings on his home soil.

The jury in the trial of an Ohio police chief accused of breaking into the home of a woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick ended five hours of deliberations Friday without a verdict.

The jury in the trial of an Ohio police chief accused of breaking into the home of a woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick ended five hours of deliberations Friday without a verdict.

Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom, an international opera star, has died, her husband Sverker Olow says.

Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault on his wife.

For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.

Oprah Winfrey has racked up memorable moments during her long television reign. Some were moving, some embarrassing - to her or others - and a handful became pop-culture landmarks. Here are highlights through the years: