Reese Witherspoon, why do you do this to me? I do not understand. I mean, I get that you have a mortgage and some kids, and that everyone likes money, but you seem to have for...

In “W.E,” out Friday, two story lines compete to see which can be more boring. Remarkably, they both win! The dual tales are those of Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough, w...

I did not walk out of the press screening of “The Woman in Black,” opening Friday, because it was too scary (even though I don’t like scary movies). I left because its s...

When the Oscar nominations were announced this week, the most controversial was the inclusion of “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” among the nine movies up for Best ...

“Red Tails,” out Friday, proves what writing can do. It can take a great story — in this case, the Tuskegee Airmen’s — and turn it into a horrible script. The first ...

I certainly hope I appear cool when I interview celebrities. Because, trust me, I am not. This week I got a few hours’ notice that I would be interviewing Angelina Jolie. In...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Viola Davis will take home the Best Actress Oscar for her work in “The Help.” Though I had my problems with the movie, I have n...

I came down hard on 3-D in a previous column. I wrote about how this unnecessary gimmick gave me headaches and made me motion sick. I confessed that I always forgot to return ...

There’s no science to favoritism. At least not one I’m familiar with. So I can’t justify my list of favorite films of 2011 with any sort of methodology. These are simply...

It’s easier to convince people you’re smart if you don’t like stuff. If you like something and recommend it to people and they don’t like it, they wonder about your in...

In 2011, I saw more than 60 movies. I paid for four. The only price I pay for advance screenings is having to follow the rules set up by the studios’ PR people, who, at leas...

One reason I like working at Express is my brain poops whenever I try to write anything longer than 500 words. I like short. When you write short, you have no choice but to ...

I like taking my 3-year-old to press screenings. We go often enough that I haven’t taken him to a “real” movie in a long time. For all he knows, all movies start at 10 a...

I have long held the opinion that director Lars von Trier loves movies and hates people. His films — the newest of which, “Melancholia,” opens Friday — are almost univ...

“Like Crazy,” which opens Friday, is one of the rare romantic movies that I think many people (myself included) can actually imagine themselves living. That’s because Ja...