“Sooner or later,” the Canadian media baron Moses Znaimer said decades ago, “everything is on TV.” Now it’s all on DVD. Or do I mean Blu-ray? And how soon before discs will be as antediluvian as videotape and all media …
For against-the-odds inspiration, it wasn’t as thrilling as the saga of 52-year-old Dewey Bozella, the boxer who spent half his life in prison on a trumped-up murder charge and, after being exonerated, won a unanimous decision …
Avatar’s Sam Worthington and every film’s Jessica Chastain star in a creepily atmospheric true-crime thriller
The great Spanish filmmaker casts Antonio Banderas as a mad-love surgeon, in a surgical thriller designed to make your flesh crawl
Hokey but heartfelt, this remake of the old musical preaches that teens can dance their way out of the Recession
This weekend, Hugh Jackman needed a boxing robot to help Real Steel win the box office battle, while George Clooney’s political drama The Ides of March came in second
The crinkly liberal icon stars with Ryan Gosling in a savory, skeptical drama about political dreams and how to shatter them
Living in the Material World is a fitting, sonorous tribute to the pop idol, movie producer, spiritual searcher and constant gardener
Parents drove their kids to see family films this weekend, turning the other new movies into roadkill. Audiences had no sixth sense for the Shyamalanish Dream House and 50/50 couldn’t bring moviegoers to its bedside.
Director Jim Sheridan is just going through the motions in this misfiring psychodrama
This comedy doesn’t live up to its killer premise and affecting backstory, despite the lead actor’s beautifully judged performance
According to early studio estimates, Disney’s 3-D re-release of The Lion King will win the weekend box-office race at North American theaters with $22.1 million, a slim 27% drop from last weekend.
Though we’ve left out some sentimental choices — cry us a river over “Brian’s Song” another time — we’re confident that you’ll discover some new favorites
