film commentary

Some thoughts on Meyers' latest comedy, the elderly, the pleasure of the old school, this generation's hyperactive multi-tasking, and Robert De Niro.

In the concluding part of his trilogy made since being banned from filmmaking, the Iranian director continues to show invention and spirited defiance.

A Boston native who grew up during the time of Whitey Bulger's reign sizes up this movie about the mobster's legend.

Is it a retired hitman movie or an upbeat teen romcom? Either way, it's Emma Roberts' Eloise who gets the fan art.

This feminist revisionist Western has a compelling and brilliantly constructed opening sequence, but can the rest of the film build on that promise?

After more than half a decade away, the Splat Pack director returns with a disgusting, vile, morally dubious cannibal movie. Yes, it's that good.

A potential future Canadian resident scopes out the country through this doc by an L.A.-living Canuck comedy writer.

A nature-phobic filmmaker is awed by this fully immersive 3D movie about an ill-fated ascent of the world's tallest peak.

Can this New York City-set post-hipster romantic comedy succeed in giving us that gooey high we want?

Not just about arranged marriage, this crowdpleasing documentary is also a very honest meditation on the diaspora experience.

Will this found-footage horror film get its slumping director out of movie jail? Or win him another Razzie nomination?

A first-time director embraces the contradictions of a Chinese production that features Hollywood stars, a war movie that preaches pacifism.