Superhero movies have come a long way from just being Big Strong Good Guy vs. Big Strong Bad Guy, thanks in large part to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight series. Which is wh...

“Man of Steel,” out Friday, looks pretty good, thanks to Henry Cavill, who’s pretty and looks good in Spandex. Know what else looks good? Capes. Here are some characters...

“Fill the Void,” opening Friday, takes place in a world unknown to many Americans — an Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in Tel Aviv. When 18-year-old Shira’s (Hadas Y...

When a child threatens to run away from home, he packs his teddy bear and snacks. A teenager longing to leave, though, has the smarts to be a little more prepared. In “The K...

Two films out this week deal with teenagers and their parents. In the pretty-good “The Kings of Summer,” a boy runs away because of his relationship with his father, which...

In the Israeli film “Fill the Void,” out Friday, an Orthodox Jewish girl is pressured to marry her sister’s widower. That’s a little odd, but moviegoers have attended ...

“The first film is about a cult,” says Zal Batmanglij. “The second film is about a tribe.” The director is referring to the two movies he’s made with co-writer and s...

Once, back when I was in high school, I watched magicians Penn & Teller appear on Letterman. Their act involved throwing things at a running chipper-shredder, whereupon th...

Jesse Eisenberg is a magician, for he has seen the future. Of magic. And it is awesome. Eisenberg plays Daniel Atlas in “Now You See Me,” out Friday, a film about four mag...

“Before Midnight,” out Friday, checks in on the lovers who met in 1995’s “Before Sunrise” and re-met in 2004’s “Before Sunset.” They’re not the first movie c...

I once had someone tell me to my face that women can’t accurately review action movies because “they just don’t understand.” (During a job interview. You’ll note tha...

This week brings “Fast and Furious 6,” in which drivers are very, very, very, very, very, very fast. And furious! We’re glad none of these bad drivers from other movies ...

I knew Rosebud was the sled, I knew Ilsa would get on the plane, and I knew Norman Bates liked to wear his mom’s clothes. I even knew Bruce Willis was dead the whole time. W...

When J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek” came out in 2009, the canon-rocking news was the romance between Spock (Zachary Quinto) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana). Shippers of Spockura (Spur...

“Star Trek Into Darkness” will be analyzed in obsessive detail by those who love it and will join the pantheon of movies about which writers must avoid making even the tee...