If you're one of those who fondly recalls spending the '60s luxuriating in a pleasantly disorienting haze, well, consider "Inherent Vice" a reunion of sorts. You'll fit right in. If, on the other...

To what do we owe the second coming of the biblical epic? A genre that was once as moldy as stale communion wafers has been reborn this year, first with Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" and now with...

The numbers are unavoidable. Paul Thomas Anderson has made seven feature films and he has made seven films set in California. "It's just there, isn't it?" sighs Anderson. "If...

At Sunday's premiere of "Selma" in New York, the cast acknowledged parallels between their film about the African-American civil rights movement and recent protests nationwide, calling...

Responding for the first time to the firestorm that erupted over the lack of diversity in this year's Oscar nominations, film academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs says the all-white acting slate...

With his latest and best film in tow, Chris Rock is back in the spotlight right when we most need him. There's no more salient voice on race in America, not to mention most other things...

After a long and eventful journey, "The Hobbit" trilogy has reached its bloody climax. Not a minute too soon for director Peter Jackson, who has been longing to unleash mayhem on Middle...

Two extravagant comedies, "Birdman" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel," tied for the most Oscar nominations Thursday morning with nine nods each, including best picture. They were joined in...

In his exciting first three films, writer-director J.C. Chandor, the son of a Merrill Lynch investment banker, has proven to be a canny, clear-eyed studier of capitalism, sensitive to its strivers and...

"Put yourself in my place." It's a line heard a number of times in "Two Days, One Night," the exquisitely simple and moving new film from Belgium's Dardenne brothers. It's central to the story,...