film reviews

Watching this richly musical vampire movie is like lying on your bedroom floor with headphones on, listening to a great record for the first time.

Sometimes you watch something amazing and inspiring and know exactly what kind of movie you want to make next.

Rather than twisted and predatory or respectable and desexualized, this groundbreaking French thriller makes gay men sultry and dangerous.

The actor (and bleeding-heart Hollywood Commie Hippie Punk) delves into this visceral tale of revenge, and the great performance at its core.

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.

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.