In anticipation of my Best of 2012 list, which will be up in the next few days after I catch up with some of those lingering blind spots, I...

"You cannot have grief tragically becoming comedy," warns Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), a plump, mustachioed mortician while giving ...

With Lincoln , Steven Spielberg has managed to supply meaty human drama, unexpected revelations, and even suspense to a historical politica...

The world of Anna Karenina as seen by Joe Wright apparently interpreting Leo Tolstoy is expressed as a large, seemingly expanding and cont...

In a year that has brought some films of the most damning levels of "self-seriousness" for some ( Cloud Atlas , Prometheus , Comp...

The Hobbit (2012): For what it's worth, I slouched into my cushioned seat with, if not quite the level of giddy excitement I sensed fl...

Surfacing after the quiet, melancholy, restrained The Last Picture Show , Peter Bogdanovich showed himself to be a true chameleon, and an e...