Joe Williams

The spoof of consumerism scores some predictable points, but the tidy ending is a sell-out to the ultimate marketing machine: Hollywood.

This is a kaleidoscopic valentine to a great city from a director who knows and loves his subject.

This deadpan police story produces unexpected chills.

The reason District 9 reverberates so loudly is because its moral indignation is cranked to 11.

a horrific misstep in the branding of Robert Pattinson. The erstwhile teen vampire, who daringly portrayed gay surrealist Salvador Dalí in last year's "Little Ashes," lurches backward into a pile of romantic rubbish.

Fortunately, Fish Tank feeds us more than crumbs and leaves us feeling like we've come up for air.

The most provocative thing in Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work is the moment during the opening credits when we glimpse the comedy legend without makeup.

There are good movies to be made about romantic obsession, but the premise doesn't work if the crazy stalker isn't juxtaposed with a sympathetic victim.

Nobody escapes unscathed, except, of course, for Sandler, who co-wrote the infantile screenplay.

Nowhere Boy is too astutely written and directed to go to predictably melodramatic extremes.

Imagine if the "Godfather" saga had been told from the point of view of Talia Shire's character. The perspective of a don's daughter could produce a compelling movie, but The Sicilian Girl isn't it.

While the rich people who violated a dead antagonist's wishes seem sleazy (especially when they refuse to be interviewed), transporting world-class artwork five miles to a bigger facility where more people can enjoy it hardly seems like the end of civilization as we know it.

As they build up steam, two powerful actors keep us wondering whether this train is bound for war or peace.

A toxic potion that will put children to sleep and kill his (M. Night Shyamalan) career.