An online review of the upcoming Indiana Jones movie breaches the Spielberg film’s tight security.
Viewed as the sum of its sad incidents, “The Tracey Fragments” seems like the kind of adolescent melodrama that has become a staple of young-adult literature.
The real surprise of “Frontier(s)” is that this creepy, bloody contemporary gross-out also has some ideas, visual and otherwise, wedged among its sanguineous drips.
The company said closing Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures was a cost-cutting move rooted in the changing economics of the specialty film business.
“Turn the River” is a finely observed portrait of a desperate working-class woman who refuses to play by ordinary rules.
The sensationalistic documentary “Bloodline” explores the supposition that there exists a lineage traceable to Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
“Dilemma” is an earnest if schematic attempt to address conditions in Johannesburg under apartheid.
“Refusenik” falls short as entertainment because of the plodding, overly studious approach of the director, Laura Bialis.
More tired than the fantasy it promotes, “A Previous Engagement” aims at middle-aged women with the subtlety of a pitch for bladder-control medication.
“Vice,” a muddled, disposable crime thriller, has modest merits.
In “The Memory Thief,” a strange and melancholy journey to the heart of madness, a rootless young man finds meaning in the horrors of a stolen past.
Adam Hootnick’s “Unsettled” makes the political personal, drawing a scattershot yet intimate picture of a nation divided.
“Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead” is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be.
Male midlife crisis presents as pathological self-loathing in “Meet Bill,” an imperative to which the only sane response is: No thanks.
The hero of “OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies” might be described as a French equivalent of James Bond.
Shot piecemeal over the course of four years on locations in 18 countries, “The Fall” is a genuine labor of love — and a real bore.
“Noise,” the second part of a projected “fanatic trilogy,” is shallow and loud.
Until it crosses a shadowy line dividing serious comedy from distasteful exploitation, “The Babysitters” has the makings of an incisive satire of greed and lust in suburbia.
“Surfwise” has a bohemian vibe and a cool sheen, but it’s an eager-to-please, pleasing commercial enterprise with a reassuring narrative arc.
“Speed Racer” sets out to honor and refresh a youthful enthusiasm from the past and winds up smothering the fun in self-conscious grandiosity.
The ingredients of the Indian director Santosh Sivan’s period piece “Before the Rains” may be awfully familiar, but the film lends them the force of tragedy.
“What Happens in Vegas,” one of those junky time-wasters that routinely pop up in movie theaters, won’t make you laugh much or at all.
The mother of the man convicted of stalking the actress Uma Thurman recalls her son’s better days.
Microsoft Corporation is underwriting an online movie-making contest to stimulate sales and burnish the reputation of its Windows Vista operating system.
Vehicles, both hot and not, have been enjoying an on-screen heyday. But Toyota’s Prius has remained something of a novelty act on the big screen.
A movie franchise returns with a newly crowned hero: Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian.
In “Battle for Haditha,” the British filmmaker Nick Broomfield revisits a wretched chapter of the war in Iraq.
A jury in Manhattan decided that a man had tried too hard to meet Uma Thurman and sent her one too many love letters.
Shares of the comic book publisher, soared on Monday after “Iron Man,” its first self-produced film, raked in more than $100 million in ticket sales over the weekend.
Abel Gance’s 1922 film “La Roue” is an intimate epic centered on four main characters.
Ryan Kavanaugh, the film financier whose film credits include “Catch and Release,” has been trying to get law enforcement officials to emulate the title.
The wiretapping trial of Anthony Pellicano, the accused sleuth to the stars, has offered a close look into the surprisingly easy access to all sorts of spyware.
Tight security was imposed in Tokyo when a Chinese director’s documentary about a Japanese shrine to its war dead opened amid threats from nationalists outraged at its content.
“Iron Man” sold an estimated $100.8 million in tickets at North American theaters and almost certainly established a new movie franchise for Marvel Entertainment.
Males are playing superheroes, funnymen, even leading ladies. Females aren’t so lucky.
Neil Labute, Michael Barker, Diane English, Larry Charles and Tamara Jenkins all share their favorite summer movie picks.
In the first of a two-part interview with Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise employed his charm — and taut stagecraft — in an effort to rehabilitate his reputation.
Adam Sandler still refuses to grow up. In the current Hollywood comedy climate, he’s hardly alone.
For the new Indiana Jones movie, Steven Spielberg unearths a bit of history, too, in the film’s look.
An unlikable Will Smith? The men behind “Hancock” have turned him into a booze-swilling superhero.
“Sex and the City” gets a big-screen revival and Michael Patrick King, the head writer of the series, returns in the director’s chair.
Little pieces of torn paper, a dollar bill and a picture of a headless bride fell out of an envelope the actress told a jury she received from a suspected stalker in 2005.
The moody, surreal “XXY” explores the world of Alex, an intersex teenager navigating the treacherous emotional and hormonal rapids of uncertain gender.
The romantic comedy “Made of Honor” adds tart satirical flavors to a cotton-candy formula without sabotaging the sugar rush.
“Mister Lonely” is enigmatic, its moods and meanings sometimes elusive, but nearly every frame is an image of arresting clarity and beauty.
“As Tears Go By,” Wong Kar-wai’s first feature film, heralds a new vision not yet in perfect focus.
“The Favor,” a dreary, interminable drama written and directed by Eva Aridjis, is exactly one-third of a good movie.
Films from Sweden, Turkey, the Netherlands, Britain, the United States and Spain captured the top awards Thursday in juried competitions at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The six-year-old Hollywood wiretapping case went to the jury after a federal prosecutor urged the panel members to look past the celebrities and entertainment moguls involved.
A welcome entry in the constituency-cinema canon, “Hollywood Chinese” surveys a century’s worth of Chinese-American entertainers.
“Viva” is a startlingly pitch-perfect reproduction of the kind of gauzy sex movies from the 1960s and early 1970s that preceded the hard-core revolution.
For a tale spiked with so much torment, “Fugitive Pieces” feels remarkably soothing.
“Son of Rambow” is a likable, lightly sticky valentine to childhood, the 1980s and the dawning of movie love.
“Iron Man” is an unusually good superhero picture. Or at least — since it certainly has its problems — a superhero movie that’s good in unusual ways.
“Redbelt,” is a satisfying, unexpectedly involving B-movie that owes as much to old Hollywood as to Greek tragedy.
Defiant and colorful to the end, the accused Hollywood wiretapper Anthony Pellicano told jurors in his racketeering trial that he was simply a diligent private eye.
The stage is set for a new and more difficult phase in the showdown between actors and producers over a contract to replace the current deal, which expires June 30.
The move spotlighted the company’s future as a pure content provider and signaled a renewed focus on its Warner Brothers movie studios and Turner Networks.
Prosecutors told jurors that Anthony Pellicano was a “very well-paid thug” who used wiretaps and crooked police officers to dig up dirt for his celebrity clients.
Foreign DVD sales of “Shrek the Third” were stronger than anticipated, helping DreamWorks report a 69 percent increase in quarterly profit.
A series called “First Ladies: Early Women Filmmakers” offers work from five film pioneers and Gregg Araki’s “The Living End” is remastered after 16 years.
Closing arguments will begin in Anthony Pellicano’s Hollywood wiretapping case after a federal judge rejected a defendant’s call for a mistrial.
Ms. Phillips played mostly supporting roles on Broadway and in more than 50 films in the 1930s and ’40s and was a co-writer of the 1958 horror film “The Blob.”
For 20 New York City high schoolers, ages 15 to 19, the Tribeca Film Festival was a deep-end-of-the-pool immersion into the modern film business.
“Speed Racer, ” which opens on May 9, conveys a grudging acknowledgment of the wonders that big business has managed to create — for all its wicked ways.
The embrace of a rural tale may be a rebuke of Nicolas Sarkozy’s chic ways.
Many agree that Blockbuster needs a change in order to beef up profits, but few agree with its proposal to acquire the consumer electronics retailer Circuit City.
The 11th-hour surprise in the Hollywood wiretapping trial resulting in the jury being sent home abruptly on Friday.
Ms. Page, the stepdaughter of Jack L. Warner, a president of the Warner Brothers studio, made her film debut as a Bulgarian newlywed in “Casablanca.”
With the arrival of the comically exuberant action-adventure-romance “Tashan” in theaters on Friday, the Great Bollywood Bikini Question of ’08 — will she or won’t she wear one? — was finally answered. Readers, she did.
Errol Morris is being pressed about interviews that were paid for in a new documentary on prisoner abuse in Iraq.
The secret does not seem to have brought happiness to some of those involved in the creation of “The Secret.” But perhaps high-priced lawyers will help.
Why Ralph Bakshi has amassed a collection of vintage typewriters has less to do with nostalgia than with a sense of continuity.
A blockbuster of a documentary, Errol Morris’s “Standard Operating Procedure” is an inquiry into the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib.
“Then She Found Me,” a serious comedy, is more impressive for what it refuses to do than for its modest accomplishment.
A would-be erotic thriller with no heat and zero chills, “Deception” has a kind of glassy, glossy sheen and risible story.
“Bomb It” takes a comprehensively international viewpoint on graffiti culture.
Leaning more toward understanding than blame, “Without the King” examines a country forced to choose between tradition and survival.
Ms. Barron composed the first electronic score for a feature film — the eerie gulps and burbles, echoes and weeeoooos of the 1956 science-fiction classic “Forbidden Planet.”
Ms. Burton’s talent agency represented many of the top juvenile actors in Hollywood, including River and Joaquin Phoenix and Henry Thomas of “E.T.”
Claude Lelouch’s “Roman de Gare” is a thriller, a murder mystery and a somewhat self-conscious literary puzzle.
“Up the Yangtze” is an astonishing documentary of culture clash and the erasure of history amid China’s economic miracle.
If you think the last seven years have been one long, dumb, dirty joke, then “Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay,” might be the perfect movie for you.
The new comedy “Baby Mama” never comes fully to term, as it were.
Who says cellphones are good only for talking? Today they are bringing together two unlikely brand names: Nokia and Spike Lee.
To rediscover some of the cinematic experiments of 1968 is to be amazed at how alive these films are.
After largely receding from public view, Harmony Korine has finally made another film, “Mr. Lonely.”
The warriors of boxing and jiujitsu know that winning is as tough as losing. Just look at their faces.
Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers agreed on Wednesday to extend their current round of contract talks through May 2, they said in a joint statement.
Hollywood clucks over the stumbles “Valkyrie” has taken.
A new book argues that Disney movies like “Bambi” inspired generations of environmentalists, while others criticize the films’ distorted views of nature and animals.
Though it is suspenseful, unnerving and agile in its techniques, “Stuff and Dough” has more than speed and danger on its mind.
Betting that audiences are hungry for nature documentaries, the Walt Disney Company has created a new production banner to deliver two nature films a year starting in 2009.
The release of the sixth and final volume of “Shirley Temple: America’s Sweetheart Collection” coincides with the actress’s 80th birthday.
Viacom’s Paramount Pictures announced it would start its own premium television channel, along with MGM and Lionsgate.
What in the world is James Bond going to do for wheels now that his Aston Martin DBS has gone for a swim in Lake Garda in northern Italy?
“The Forbidden Kingdom,” the Lionsgate martial-arts film starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li, right, found the key to the weekend box office.
With “Standard Operating Procedure,” the filmmaker Errol Morris grapples with elusive photographic truth in a heart of darkness.
Claude Lelouch, the director of a 1966 megahit (and many flops) is back with the romantic thriller, “Roman de Gare.”
In his new movie, “Iron Man,” Robert Downey Jr. is an imposing presence encased in armor. He wears a different kind of armor off screen.