We visit three different places and times in Derek Cianfrance’s extraordinary—and extraordinarily sad—relationship drama…

For those who like to read between the lines (a poor reason to see an Adam Sandler comedy), there’s a potent female-anxiety drama lurking in this shrill rom-com based on the phony-marriage farce Cactus Flower…

It must be in John Slattery’s contract that, whether he’s in an episode of Mad Men or anything else, he is to be provided a fedora. No discussion…

 

Oh sure, it’d be easy to lead off a review of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s manipulatively misspelled melodrama with a joke about how it’s “rilly tearible,” or that its merry-go-round of miserabilism makes you want to “kil yerself with a shotgunn.” But let’s be honest: This movie’s misuse of lan

No punches pulled: The first image in Mike Leigh’s superb drama is a severe close-up of the great Imelda Staunton as a depressive British housewife. Her dour, weight-of-the-world expression resonates throughout Another Year, even though this isn’t her story.

A chameleon with no name (Depp) comes from out of the West (“the far West,” he stresses) to the water-starved town of Dirt. True to his nature, he just wants to blend in. But the reptile eventually adopts the titular moniker and becomes the burg’s unlikely, comically inept savior…

Best pictureThe race is on: As it did last year, an expanded field offers ten nominees instead of five…

Now that Harrison Ford has graciously stepped aside, let’s look at the new model currently at the center of these give-me-back-my-family thrillers. Liam Neeson is a far more likable brow-furrower than Han Solo ever was…

Manoel de Oliveira took his time with this spirited romance, which he conceived while in his forties and got around to directing at the age of 101; it was well worth the wait…