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  'The Inkeepers' Is Horror, Stripped Down to Its Bones

  By NICK PINKERTON

  Ti West, the 34-year-old writer/director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror... More >>

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  Save the Humans In 'Big Miracle'!

  By MELISSA ANDERSON

  Starring everyone who wasn't in New Year's Eve—and larded with just as many bromides—Big Miracle is inspired by the true story of the... More >>

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  'Chronicle' Gives Power to the People

  By AARON HILLIS

  In our status-updated, YouTubed, retweeted age of self-documentation, does the "faux-found-footage" genre—popularized by The Blair Witch... More >>

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  Sundance, In Crisis

  By KARINA LONGWORTH

  It's potentially dangerous to look at the lineup of the Sundance Film Festival, which ended Sunday, as a reflection of the character of... More >>

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  'Man On a Ledge' Takes a Dive

  By BRIAN MILLER

  The hero of the red-herring heist flick Man On a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a midtown... More >>

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  Liam Neeson Returns

  By ERIC HYNES

  Halfway through last year's rough-and-tumble thriller Unknown, assassins come calling for a man who's suffering from amnesia (Liam Neeson). All... More >>

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  Gina Carano Goes 'Haywire'

  By NICK PINKERTON

  There's a point in Haywire when the film's protagonist, ex-Marine Mallory Kane (Gina Carano), gone rogue from her job as hired muscle for a... More >>

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  'Haywire''s Odd Couple

  By KARINA LONGWORTH

  "Steven [Soderbergh] asked me, 'Why is Angelina Jolie the only female action star in the world?' I told him, 'I don't know,' and he said,... More >>

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  All About the Queen In 'Miss Bala'

  By KARINA LONGWORTH

  Mexico's submission for the Best Foreign Language Oscar race, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala spells out the destiny of its would-be beauty-queen... More >>

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  'Crazy Horse' Takes the Butt Seriously

  By MELISSA ANDERSON

  Recording "Les Filles du Crazy," an anthem they'll later lip-synch onstage, half a dozen women—performers at the Crazy Horse, Paris' classy... More >>

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  Irvine International Film Festival Is Full of Hidden Gems

  By MATT COKER

  Jack Kaprielian and Kevin Derek love movies, but they gravitate less toward Hollywood blockbusters and more toward short, foreign or independent... More >>

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  These Guns Are 'Contraband'

  By NICK PINKERTON

  Will there someday be a movie in which the "one last job" goes off without a hitch? It's not Contraband, which begins with that time-tested... More >>

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  Is Nothing Sacred, 'Joyful Noise'?

  By MELISSA ANDERSON

  A holy hot mess of the sacred and the inane, Joyful Noise, about a small-town Southern gospel choir, lifts from Usher's "Yeah!" to give us this... More >>

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  What 'The Divide' Needs Is a Conch

  By NICK PINKERTON

  A mushroom cloud blooms over Manhattan at the opening of The Divide. We see it reflected in the tearful eyes of Eva (Lauren German), who'll spend... More >>

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  'The Iron Lady' Doesn't Know How She Did It

  By KARINA LONGWORTH

  In the first scene of The Iron Lady, which reteams director Phyllida Lloyd with her Mamma Mia! star Meryl Streep, eightysomething Margaret... More >>

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