film commentary

The actress and writer-director is a kid in a candy shop watching this spectacular, brilliantly choreographed Indonesian-set action movie.

A late-night conversation between a director and his musical theater-loving boyfriend about the Sondheim movie adaptation they just saw.

A filmmaker who became a director because of Clint Eastwood considers the retired actor's latest effort behind the camera.

A USC film school alum tries his luck with a movie set at his alma mater and starring one of his favorite Hollywood actors.

As you watch a movie, your mind registers a million different thoughts. Here's how one filmmaker processed this year's big Sundance-winning film.

Memories of early Fincher and the passing of another great director, and connecting the dots between two twisted, satirical thrillers about marriage.

One of the most shocking and controversial movies of the year inspires not an enraged critical attack — but a cartoon.

Pondering the latest (disappointing) exploits of the half-shell heroes, and what kind of movies kids deserve and get.

The director of V/H/S and Autoerotic can't get up any enthusiasm for this new "analog" comedy.

The increasingly versatile New York-based writer-director creates a very grounded, textured thriller set in Gotham in the early 1980s.

The latest pared-down picture from the sixtysomething Belgian brothers is realism at its very best.

As the second of the Kiwi director's Tolkien trilogies ends, a look back at the scope and impact of this epic body of work.