Ellen Burstyn

Like a Bat Out of Hell, the USA Film Festival Schedule is Released

The Devil to Pay

Warners must have a hell of a good reason for re-releasing The Exorcist

Patchwork saga

How To Make an American Quilt stitches a contrived view of romance

Events for the week

How To Make an American Quilt stitches a contrived view of romance

Women, on the verge

Studios and audiences are embracing an overdue trend: female-empowerment films

Crocodile tears

Despite its lofty aims, The Spitfire Grill never reaches the level of real tragedy

Love for sale

The relentlessly earnest Playing by Heart talks itself to death

Hard copy

Imitation is the lamest form of moviemaking

Big Fan: AFI Dallas Announces Its Complete Line-Up, Minus the Closing-Night Movie(s?)

Patton Oswalt is the Big Fan, scheduled to play the AFI Dallas International Film Fest this yearMoments ago, the AFI Dallas International Film Festival sent along its complete schedule for this year's fest, which runs March 26 through April 2 -- with, as we've noted before, most screenings taking pl ... More >>

W. Reminds Us of What We'd Rather Forget

Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's m.o., but at this point, who cares?

Fountain of Shame

That Darren Aronofsky sure is ambitious. Too bad his movie makes no sense.

Sister Sister

In Secrets, Sandra Bullock takes her broken wings and learns to fly again

Pi in Your Face

Director Darren Aronofsky makes films that resemble himself: smart and abrasive

Harden's Crossing

She's finally been invited to the Oscar party, but what will she do after the ball?

Talkin' Smack

Aronofsky's follow-up to pi is a brutal personal movie about the horrors of drug addiction

A Couple Yards Short

The gang's all here in this familiar-but-fresh tale of a bad guy scared straight

A small gust

Denzel Washington is sorely buffeted by The Hurricane

Anywhere but there

Mother and daughter search for themselves among the Tumbleweeds