Though religion is never an issue, the sins of the fathers is a theme that reverberates with biblical overtones in “The Place Beyond the Pines.” After his intense examination of a marriage gone sour in “Blue Valentine,” director/writer Derek Cianfrance teams up once again ...

You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. This banal platitude is the essence of “Celeste and Jesse Forever,” a romcom that recalls those heartwarmin,’ chick-pleasin’ love stories of the 1990s and early 2000s. Cowritten by Rashida Jones (Quincy Jones’ daughter, who also ...

Director: Bill Condon Language: English Now a vampire and a mom, “Twilight” heroine Bella (Kristen Stewart) and undead hubby Edward (Robert Pattinson) must protect their beastly baby from the powerful Volturi in the final part of this supernaturally popular teen drama series. You could ...

Bill Cunningham is one of the long-revered icons of The New York Times: If you are incredibly lucky, you may catch a glimpse of his blue-jacketed figure walking through the doors of the Times building on Eighth Avenue, camera bag slung around his shoulder, ...

Director: Jeremy Power Regimbal Language: English Good news to all those who share my weakness for Selma Blair: Here she is! In an utterly regrettable horror movie with the less-than-enticing title of “In Their Skin,” Blair nevertheless gets right down to work being her ...

This bilingual thing … they say that it’s a both curse and a blessing. Watakushigotode kyōshukudesuga (私事で恐縮ですが, A thousand pardons for having the gall to talk about myself), but I think of it more like a stigma. It’s not the same for millenials — ...

The Why is missing from the How in “God Save My Shoes,” a documentary focusing on the female obsession for footwear. But the package is still a treat — if we can’t afford to buy 300 pairs of sculpted beauties, the next best thing ...

Produced by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey (there is no director credit), documentary “Eames: The Architect and the Painter” examines Charles and Ray Eames, one of the 20th century’s most enduring and influential couples in industrial design. They were eccentric, too: In the film, ...

Director: Olivier Megaton Language: English Liam Neeson returns as a CIA agent who spends most of his working hours rescuing his daughter or wife from Middle Eastern kidnappers. Here, he has to save both women, even though his wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) is now ...

You know the drill,” says L.A. gang lord Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) to his henchmen, and they immediately pick up actual drills and get to work on their victims. The screen gets sprayed with enough blood to relieve a drought. So if Mickey Cohen ...

Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris Language: English A geek (Paul Dano) whose idea of a dream girl is a gorgeous, adorable creature wearing his shirt (and nothing else) in the morning and who wakes him up with fresh coffee to say winsomely: “Are you ...

In the West he's been referred to as "the other Murakami." To those in Japan, the difference is so prominent that very few would ever confuse artist-cum-filmmaker Takashi Murakami with novelist Haruki Murakami.