Two months into its most lucrative season, Hollywood's summer is down nearly 20 percent from last year at North American theaters.   WHAT'S WORKING   — Sequels....

Digital characters have by now long populated our movies like unwanted house guests. Some of these CGI inventions, like Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings," have been pleasant, even precious...

The road movie is refitted for a charming spin around scenic Iceland in "Land Ho!," a serio-comedy of very modest ambition but a distinct character of its own. At its most reductive, a buddy...

Early in "Boyhood," Richard Linklater's bracingly original, utterly enthralling new film about the passage of time through the lens of one boy's life, we find our characters at a...

If Roger Ebert had never written a film review or dramatically articulated his thumb, he would have still been a man to admire.   Steve James' new documentary on the late...

Terry Notary is Hollywood's human shape-shifter. In a blink, he can become an elf, an ape or almost any other moving creature.   An expert in motion-capture performance, he specializes...

Meet Tammy. Boy, is she a mess. Angry, profane and aggressive, then suddenly shy and sweet. Sometimes she's funny, sometimes totally not. She can't figure out what she wants to do or be, or...

Don't hate Halle Berry because she's beautiful.   She's certainly a welcome TV presence this summer as the star of "Extant," a 13-episode thriller on CBS where she...

A serial-killer mystery in which the culprit turns out to be one of Satan's minions, Scott Derrickson's "Deliver Us From Evil" adapts the detective genre to an exorcism tale that is...

Adam Levine knows pop stars-turned-actors are greeted suspiciously. And he's hesitant to make any grandiose declarations about suddenly transforming into an actor. But he also can't help...