Movie Review | 'Things We Lost in the Fire': An Addict and a Widow With a Lot of Pain to Heal
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âThings We Lost in the Fireâ bends over backward to prove that serious American movies can hold their own with the best films from overseas.
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The pain of watching a  spouse succumb to Alzheimer's is given a particularly deep and  sensitive treatment in "Away From Her," an Alice Munro  adaptation marking the feature writing-directing debut for  actress Sarah Polley.
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Battling fires and rescuing people, though fascinating to behold, doesn&#39;t necessarily make for compelling drama. The challenge is telling a story that&#39;s true to the episodic nature of firefighting, yet not
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As its title suggests, this eccentric film written and directed by Isabel Coixet, contemplates the insufficiency of language to encapsulate traumatic experience.
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Try as you like, it's hard to erase traces of a traumatic past.
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Correspondent Michael Weisskopf had his right hand blown off in Iraq. This is the story of how he rebuilt his life - and what he learned from the soldiers who lost even more
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The films of Mira Nair examine the immigrantâs plight of what to carry from the old country, and what to leave behind.
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The families of some Sept. 11 victims are trying to explore how their loved ones died, but the topic of those who jumped from the World Trade Center is an especially sensitive one.
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The maker of hits like Dead Ringers and Crash is back with Eastern Promises, an excruciatingly violent and engagingly tender film about the bottomless cruelty we humans are capable of.
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Veterans of earlier fires are sharing practical lessons on recovery and rebuilding.
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A PBS documentary called 'The Power of Forgiveness' has a healing message for survivors of the school shooting.
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How a hurt feline brought present and past together.
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Too often, inspirational movies about extreme bravery in the face of affliction are pure goo. They only manage to inspire a few rolls of the eyes in those of us with more ironic constitutions.
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While âRolling Like a Stoneâ has poignant and funny moments, itâs a serious film about mortality, success and the ephemeral nature of experience and memory.
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Reservation Road and Things We Lost in the Fire both show middle-class lives thrown into crisis
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Life hardens us and art desensitizes us. Is the culture of violence turning us into creatures without empathy? Commentary by Tony Long.
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A moving Japanese film based on a true story shows how a selfless mother's love for her children helped the family survive tragedy and danger brought on by the conflict with China and soon after it, World War Two.