You’d have to be a disingenuous snob to wonder why the first Hangover was such a monster hit…

A staggering political drama that could put you in mind of the intimate sweep of Bernardo Bertolucci, Incendies feels like a mighty movie in our midst. The film seems sprung from a different era—the gloriously bold early ’70s—or perhaps an alien studio system…

The last two installments—not the sly 2003 original, mind you—had a way of making viewers feel like Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow himself, stumbling out of the theater in a stupor…

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 school…

Will Ferrell tempers his rabid energy and puts on a sad, sad clown face for writer-director Dan Rush’s subdued, sentimental adaptation of Raymond Carver’s short story “Why Don’t You Dance?” The normally frenzied comic plays Nick Halsey, a corporate shill and struggling alcoholic who loses his jo

Painstakingly tailored for the underserved audiences that’ve made Tyler Perry a megastar, this African-American ensemble comedy milks laughs out of the clashes between an uptight old-money clan from Martha’s Vineyard and their brasher Brooklynite in-laws-to-be during a weekend wedding…

Thirteen-year-old T.J. Forney (Brochu) could use a friend. He’s bullied at school, neglected by his pill-popping father (Wilson) and dealing, none too well, with the untimely death of his mother…

I have to start by asking about Batman: You were just cast as John Blake in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises…

Anyone who’s seen Kristin Wiig’s rubber-faced grotesques and neurotic Nellies on Saturday Night Live can attest to her ability to make absurdist sketch ideas (say, a Lawrence Welk Show sister act with a mutant member) somehow work like gangbusters…

The Fast and the Furious movies haven’t exactly gotten better as they’ve gone along—although Tokyo Drift–er Justin Lin, taking his third turn behind the franchise’s wheel, is at least a competent hack…