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It´s not easy being mean, as Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody’s latest project, Young Adult — directed by her Juno collaborator, Jason Reitman — goes about illustrating with an intriguing, unsettled blend of pity and pitilessness...

Children’s movies are fascinating triumphs of simplicity and clarity. Often these movies render complex issues so succinctly that they become masterworks full of sophisticated...

Dennis Lehane's character-packed but gimmicky novel "Shutter Island" earns a slightly less gimmicky film from Martin Scorsese, who makes this 1950s period piece his tribute to the psychological thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock...

After Earth...

I take notes as I watch films so that I can remember salient plot points, great effects, and idiotic story twists. During The Other Guys, I wrote down “buddy cop film from hell.” That might well sum up the weird mash-up that is The Other Guys, a movie that can’t ...

This is not based on a true story; this is a true story.” So proclaims the title cards that open American Animals — a...

It was 30 years ago this April that Turner Classic Movies (TCM) first signed on the air. Truly, it wasn’t that big of a...

There`s a scene in the gripping documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work guaranteed to complicate whatever feelings you have about the movie’s turbulent subject. Rivers, who says in the film that she’d knock out her own teeth if she could get a dentures ...

There seems to be an endless fascination with the famed Saturday Night Live. While the merits of the weekly television show are continually debated...

'I know where I'm going!' kicks off The Film Foundation's new screening series.

How bad of a year was it for movies? As late as August, I was wondering if there would be enough films to fill a list of 10. Then came the fall movie season and everything changed...

It would be low-hanging fruit to open this column with a declaration along the lines of: “The Flatirons Food Film Festival returns for a...