The Sundance Film Festival used to be where cinematic up-and-comers up and went. Now Sundance is a celebrity-filled meet-and-greet with more knowns than unknowns. Still, any i...

After most documentaries I see, I walk out of the theater in despair because the problem exposed by the film is nearly unsolvable. Melting glaciers, the water crisis, Detroit....

“A Place at the Table” starts with what can only be described as flyover-country porn — aerial shots of amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesty, fruited plains, al...

Long before passing judgment became my job, I sucked at Oscar picks. For the past two years, I haven’t even tried to choose them myself. In 2012, I consulted an assortment o...

Dror Moreh, documentarian, believes in asking for what he wants. “Everybody told me, ‘You are crazy. Shin Bet will never speak to you. What are you talking about?’ ”...

Werner Herzog’s new doc, “Happy People: A Year in the Taiga,” opens Friday at E Street Cinema. Herzog spent a year following three Siberian fur trappers, none of whom ev...

The “Die Hard” movies — the fifth of which, “A Good Day to Die Hard,” opened Thursday — have shown audiences the importance of never giving up (as well as the powe...

My 4-year-old son recently succumbed to a stomach bug that was so bad we used up all our designated Puke Towels (good for both kids and cats!), moved on to Muddy Dog towels, w...

In “Beautiful Creatures,” opening Thursday, Lena (Alice Englert) is, like, totally stressing about her 16th birthday. Not because of a party, but because her magical power...

Real surprises are rare at the movies these days. Even though I see most films before they’re released, it seems I always know something about a movie before I go in — eit...

Fans of the Nicholas Brothers — a tap-dancing duo who once enjoyed worldwide fame — included Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines. But mention t...

Friday brings “Side Effects” with Channing Tatum, who hopefully will take off his shirt. The previews are a little confusing, but there’s some sort of medicine involved ...

The E Street Cinema’s program of Oscar-nominated shorts (running through Feb. 14) is an annual highlight of this film-dreary time of year. I’ve always had a soft spot for ...

Need a good cry? An Academy Award-nominated short film is a shortcut to catharsis. With one exception, this year’s live-action and animated honorees are emotionally manipula...

“West of Memphis,” the new documentary on the West Memphis Three, shows what happens when fear becomes the driving force in a criminal case rather than, you know, evidence...