It's one of the saving graces of "Pacific Rim," Guillermo del Toro's new mega-budget monsters vs. robots extravaganza, that at a key juncture, it knows how to make fun of...

It would be dishonest to call "Grown Ups 2" the most repellent high-profile comedy in recent memory. But that's largely because few moviegoers have memories kind enough to have already...

"Fruitvale Station" is more than the dramatization of an obituary. It's about empathy.   In recounting (and slightly fictionalizing) the final day of 22-year-old Oscar...

Staggeringly implausible, cartoonishly comical, Roland Emmerich's "White House Down" is refreshingly dumb.   Refreshing because carefree action absurdity, once the province of...

There's something inherently formulaic about summer coming-of-age movies. A quirky, awkward and misunderstood kid takes a summer off from regular life and finds a way — at the beach or by...

There's a limit, it turns out, to how much Johnny Depp and a bucket of makeup can accomplish.   In "The Lone Ranger," Gore Verbinski's flamboyant re-imagination of the...

Staggeringly implausible, cartoonishly comical, Roland Emmerich's "White House Down" is refreshingly dumb.   Refreshing because carefree action absurdity, once the province of...

Though his party boy character Vincent Chase on all eight seasons of "Entourage" savored life in the limelight, Adrian Grenier says he's quite content to be on the other side of the...

I am Eleanor Webb. I throw my story to the wind." So says the ancient child-woman played by Saoirse Ronan in "Byzantium." In a sense that's what director Neil Jordan and...

"Beverly Hills Cop." ''Lethal Weapon." ''48 Hours." ''Tango & Cash." The buddy cop movie is a reliable mainstay of our popular culture. And the...