Review: Bacon Haunting in 'The Woodsman'
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Believe it or not, you will find yourself rooting for the redemption of Kevin Bacon's character in "The Woodsman" &#151; a convicted child molester who just spent 12 years in prison. That's a huge testament to the depth of Bacon's performance.
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Only glimpses of the monster are seen in Stephen Kay's supernatural thriller. Unfortunately, the same is true of the movie's plot and character.
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LOS ANGELES  - If there's one lesson that should have been learned from Thomas Harris' dipping into the Hannibal Lecter well once too often, it's that backstories detract from the mythos of a character.
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Tim Burton brings a cinematic freshness to Sondheim's musical about a serial-killer barber.
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The Forgotten plays by all the rules expected from paranormal thrillers to deliver a nice punch, hold the melodrama. By Jason Silverman.
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Sean Penn finds a kindred spirit in the hero of âInto the Wild.â
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The oddball premise, about a man who brings murder victims back to life, has generated buzz.
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Chelsea Cainâs protagonist is a foxy killer who Hannibal Lecterizes her way through a derivative, sadistic book that somehow aspires to the debonair.
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In movies from "My Left Foot" to current drama "There Will Be Blood," Daniel Day-Lewis has been called many things: bold, hypnotic, gripping, among them. But foolhardy is a description he may like better.
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&quot;No cigarettes please,&quot; comes the request, &quot;as the smoke can interfere with our spirit photography.&quot; It is nearly midnight, a few days before Hallowe'en, in the self-styled most haunted city in Britain, and the ghost hunters are getting to work.
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The film is a good version of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window.
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Battered and deep-fried wasn't enough for "A Love Song for Bobby Long." So smothered in self-conscious Southern gothic, the film feels as if it's been drowned in gravy without even the benefit of a biscuit on the side to sop it all up.
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Daniel Day-Lewis gives a towering performance in a unique film about idealism and greed in the American West
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There are some genuine chills  in Christian Petzold's mystery tale "Yella," which recently  screened In Competition at the Berlin International Film  Festival, and even though many will see through his  legerdemain, it won't entirely spoil the pleasure of seeing how  he does it.
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"Saw IV" was a Halloween hit -- but has the series lost its edge?
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About a month ago, writer James Buchan was worrying about his livestock and the intricacies of ghost stories, when the phone rang in his Norfolk, England, farmhouse.
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Todd FieldÂs superb film adaptation of the novel by Tom Perrotta result is challenging, accessible and hard to stop thinking about.