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In Away from Her, the depiction of a 44-year marriage devastated by the onset of a degenerative condition may be smart...

Writer/director Luc Besson developed this script from two of his children’s books. As his first attempt at CGI, Arthur isn’t terrible, but it’s...

This film’s plot is so sparse that the main characters don’t even have names. But that doesn’t matter at all. Once is a short, but...

What does it mean to have eternity set in our hearts? Is immortality possible? These are the questions explored by writer/director Darren...

The Painted Veil is one of those visual and cinematic masterpieces that we rarely see today. It’s uncomfortable, but it conveys how complex...

Georgia Rule is a super-heavy downer with a high cringe factor and a steady infusion of crassness and perversion. Yes, there are important lessons...

Despite an engaging storyline and well-crafted performances all around, a particularly skewed worldview is what ultimately makes Waitress so...

Director Danny Boyle’s terrifying vision of societal decay and survival of the fittest reinvigorated the horror genre in 2003 with 28 Days Later. ...

You won’t be disappointed if you’re looking to be wowed by heretofore unseen action sequences in Spider-Man 3. But if it's more of the poignant...

Actors Drew Barrymore and Eric Bana have both recently made People magazine’s “most beautiful” list. But in Lucky You, it is the performance of...

While there’s certainly some important, timely lessons to be learned about how not to evangelize or the power of forgiveness, the worst flaw of...

The Queen provides the perfect opportunity to discuss the role of our leaders. Do they exist to lead or serve us? And how might that look, during...

Together with screenwriters Mick Davis and Christine Roum, director David S. Goyer has, however unwittingly, created more of a CW television drama...

If you like Nicolas Cage, and if you’re into movies like Minority Report, The Lake House, and Memento - and you don’t mind engaging in a lot of...

Some plays make the transition to the big screen with great triumph. Others, like "The History Boys," are not as successful. On-screen, the...