Movies

Actor's fascination for 'Mr. Brooks' leads to what he rates as one of his best roles.

Judd Apatow, writer-director of "The 40 Year-Old Virgin," serves up an even richer helping of heartwarming raunchiness in this story of a slacker struggling to do the right thing after a one-night stand leads to fatherhood.

Warm, coming-of-age drama with an edge about a feisty girl dealing with her brother's death, her father's aloofness, and a desire to play boys varsity soccer in '70s New Jersey.

This dysfunctional thriller starring Kevin Costner is a bold variant on the serial-killer genre with some significant deviations.

Hip, kinetic and wryly funny epic about witches and warlocks warring on the streets of Moscow. Sequel to the Russian blockbuster "Night Watch."

If you're going to make the case against capital punishment, an executioner's life story usually isn't the first recourse.

Half fable, half anthropological dissertation, this beautifully rendered film by writer/director Rolf de Heer ("The Quiet Room") is more important as a journey into the myth and mist of Australian aboriginal history than as dramatic experience.

Like "The Breakfast Club" of one bygone generation and the "Desert Blue" of the next, "I'm Reed Fish" features a gaggle of young stars destined for big things, who in the meantime are doing this.

Geoffrey Rush lives the actor's life much the way his buccaneer character Barbossa lives the pirate's life.

After Burt Pugach paid someone to blind Linda Riss, they ended up marrying 15 years later. A documentary that proves love really is blind.

With a new memoir, a recurring role in 'Big Love' and a starring role in Mary Stuart Masterson's new film, at 70, Dern believes in endurance.

Arrgh, for sure! Yet another blockbuster series yields diminishing returns on its third go-round in this chaotically busy account of how Jack Sparrow and his fellow buccaneers battle Davy Jones and greed heads on all sides of the law.

Tick ... tick ... tick. Paranoia and insect bites make for one crawly movie, about a motel room, a damaged woman and the boyfriend who brings out the worst in her.

Director Emanuele Crialese tells the story of a Sicilian family's early 20th century immigration to America with gritty realism and dreamy insinuation.

Anime director Satoshi Kon ("Tokyo Godfathers") kicks out the jams with this wildly imaginative science-fiction thriller about a frosty woman psychotherapist who morphs into a sexy sprite able to probe the dream life of her patients.

An aspiring actress seeks stardom, finding rejection, romance, publicity and epiphanies along the way. It's the Hollywood fantasy seen through the eyes of writer-director Henry Jaglom, and it's a very mixed bag.