Devout outdoorsman and professional loner Aron Ralston (James Franco) finds the sticky end of solitude when he’s trapped at the bottom of a remote ravine, his right arm pinned by a loose boulder. Apart read more …

In Mike Leigh’s dusky film, Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) are a couple growing old with grace. Not so Gerri’s co-worker Mary (Lesley Manville), a see-sawing emotional wreck who goes from read more …

CSI veteran Richard J. Lewis makes the jump to features with the sprawling story of Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti), a hack TV producer who's an intellectual and romantic on the side. Spanning read more …

Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu is well rid of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, Babel), whose penchant for converging storylines has long passed the point of parody. But he’s still read more …

Although it’s set in the world of ballet, Darren Aronofsky’s movie hits a pitch that would normally be called operatic. Dancer Natalie Portman is provisionally cast in her first lead by priapic company read more …

Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling play an unhappily married couple attempting to reignite the flame in Derek Cianfrance’s bombshell feature. Notwithstanding the scattered flashbacks to happier days, read more …

As aw-shucks insurance salesman Tim Lippe (Ed Helms) learns to fly his freak flag at a convention he’s forced to attend, Cedar Rapids produces more smiles than laughs. Never having left his hometown read more …

Again with the Nic Cage conundrum. Is he so shrewd and wondrous as he can appear, in movies ranging from Vampire's Kiss through Adaptation and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call? Or read more …

It took one man to pen Romeo and Juliet, a timeless classic that has endured for more than 400 years. But it somehow required eight screenwriters to devise this cringeworthy update, which will read more …

What does it say about the Farrelly brothers that their best film is Dumb and Dumber? Frankly, these filmmakers do pure stupidity very well, and when they try to offer human heart in addition to read more …

On his pretty surface, John Smith (Alex Pettyfer) is as generic as his name — tall, chiseled, blondish from his long hours on the beach. But he has a secret, revealed almost immediately: He’s an alien read more …

Choked with forced magic and strained whimsy, Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist would be dreadful even if it didn’t insult the legacy of the great Jacques Tati. Rewritten from an unfilmed script read more …

To entice single women to sleep with him, plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee (Adam Sandler) wears a fake wedding ring, playing a doting husband neglected (and sometimes beaten) by his non-existent wife. Fool-proof, read more …

Justin Bieber’s fast rise to worldwide stardom is the crux of this 3-D documentary and concert experience, chronicling Bieber and the 10 days leading up to his sold-out show at Madison Square Garden. read more …

Given that the awards buzz for Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech started seconds after its first screening, you’d be forgiven for thinking the fact-based story of a British monarch overcoming a physical read more …

This year’s selection of Oscar-nominated animated shorts range from the typically witty Pixar entry, Day & Night (written and directed by Teddy Newton) to Geefwee Boedoe’s environmentalist Let’s read more …

In The Confession, 9-year-old Sam worries that he doesn’t have any sins to reveal for his first confession. When he and his best friend conjure a scheme to provide one, it goes spectacularly wrong. read more …

“What did you expect,” eccentric exorcist Father Lucas asks his doubting apprentice after their first demonic encounter. “Spinning heads and pea soup?” Neither of those memorable moments from The Exorcist read more …

On paper, The Roommate should fit into that “god this movie is bad, but at least there are multiple hot babes in it” subcategory that’s allowed stuff like Coyote Ugly and The Sweetest read more …

On paper, there are few things more dated than 1982’s Tron, the special-FX blockbuster that threw wisecracking hacker Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) into a digital world ruled by dueling Day-Glo jumpsuit read more …

Liam Neeson’s late-career transformation into a thuggish action hero came suddenly but is ever more apparently permanent. His latest, Unknown, was quite obviously manufactured in the mold of Taken, read more …