Stories and scholarship from around the world were honored by book critics Thursday night, including works about the ancient and modern Middle East and a novel set in Mexico, the late Roberto Bolano's "2666."
"Race to Witch Mountain" is a film from Walt Disney Pictures that doesn't play like a family film manufactured by the Disney machine
It has become a genre all its own: the dysfunctional-family indie comedy, a staple of film festivals and art-house theaters alike.
Somewhere, buried deep down, there are probably some real emotions and honest moments to be had in "The Edge of Love." They're hard to find, though, smothered beneath self-aware, hyperstylized visuals and corny, old-fashioned melodrama.
Superheroes don't just make fun characters for comic books and movies.
The Sundance Film Festival has been known for heart-wrenching dramas. Romantic comedies? Not so much
"Slumdog Millionaire" is not perfect, director Danny Boyle said on Wednesday, adding no filmmaker could capture the essence of a bustling city like Mumbai in a single project.
Cherien Dabis' "Amreeka" lives up to its positive pre-Sundance buzz. The film is terrific, especially because American immigrant stories like "Amreeka" have played in Park City for years.
A newspaper headline in "Brooklyn's Finest" asks at one point if that borough's cops are out of control. Not only are the cops out of control, so is this movie.
The Oscars are at a crossroads and Batman is standing right in the middle of the road.