'Devil' is in the details of Lumet's masterpiece
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Sidney Lumet's 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead' is one of the great American films of the past decade and the crowning masterpiece of the director's long career.
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Mamoru Oshii's hallucinatory meditation on life unfolds in a swirl of film-noir intrigue, philosophical speculation, eye-popping images and serious science-fiction cool.
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This dark British comedy exudes the comfy familiarity of a vintage episode of ÂAlfred Hitchcock PresentsÂ stretched into a feature-length film.
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The notorious show from London uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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The Old Vic's revival of  Eugene O'Neill's 1947 drama "A Moon for the Misbegotten" is a  powerful demonstration of how superlative acting -- in this  case by Kevin Spacey, Eve Best and Colm Meaney -- can elevate a  flawed play so that the whole thing resembles a masterpiece.
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"The Painted Veil" sets  a few fine actors to work with one of W. Somerset Maugham's  1920s tales of Occidentals confronting the Far East and their  own tangled emotional lives.
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All those dog day afternoons have paid off for Sidney Lumet.
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David Lynch's extraordinary, savagely uncompromised new film is as cracked as Mad magazine, though generally more difficult to parse.
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Richard Prince blurs the distinctions between life and art, truth and fiction, and even automaking and sculpture.
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'Pan's Labyrinth' is a transcendent film celebrating the imagination's power to triumph over cruelty and evil.
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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.
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In his musicals, Ernst Lubitschâs precise, highly stylized direction of actors and his masterful sense of ellipsis helped to characterize âthe Lubitsch touch.â
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David Mamet, the edgy,  cagey auteur of such films as "House of Games," "The Spanish  Prisoner" and "State and Main," has long made a specialty of  such themes as betrayal, backstabbing, flimflam and innocence  ground into dust.
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Two films tackle a subject that Hollywood usually prefers to avert its eyes from
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Veteran director Sidney Lumet will receive an honorary statuette at next year&#39;s Oscar ceremony - his first ever Academy Award.
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Tycho:  The memories of those who came of age in the eighties have become a kind of ghastly rummage sale, a tilled up cemetery where icons lay tilted over bones draped in ancient finery.  Pork caught a preview of Transformers on Monday, and he claims that it is not, in fact, heresy - but I don't know how calibrated our respective tastes are.  I was going to make a statement about how any constantly shifting image could entertain him, enthrall him, command him, until I realized that this viewing was late at night, in the twilight period we call Pork After Hours, when his medication wanes and his blood is frenzied by some dark moon.  For him to have focused on anything at any time after nine o'clock is actually high praise.
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Leos Janacek has entered the opera mainstream in recent decades, but this Czech composerâs final and darkest opera, âFrom the House of the Dead,â has been largely overlooked, perhaps understandably.