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...

Crash. Shatter. Boom. Crash. Shatter. Boom. Smattering of silly dialogue. Pretty girl screams: "Dad!" Crash. Shatter. Boom. Silly dialogue. "DAD!!!" Crash. Shatter....

David Wain's "They Came Together" identifies the tropes of the romantic comedy with uncommon acuity. If only it would stop winking so much.   Wain has made his film with an...

"Begin Again" sees Irish writer-director John Carney on a larger canvas, revisiting themes from his lo-fi 2006 indie hit "Once" — chief among them the emotional connectivity...

Roman Polanski. Sadomasochism. What could possible go wrong?   The combination of director and subject material in "Venus in Fur" is wickedly perverse, just as it should be....