Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest trifle is his first film since 2004's A Very Long Engagement, a relatively sober and melodramatic adaptation of a best-selling French novel.

Essentially extending the loss-of-childhood montage from its predecessor to feature length, Toy Story 3 finds the gang abandoned by their once-faithful Andy.

If not the best (and it's certainly among them), Ondine is at least the culminating movie of director Neil Jordan's career.

With no disrespect to the "special collector's edition" of the latest garish blockbuster, it seems safe to say there won't be a more important Blu-ray than Criterion's By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two.

Looking for Eric returns director Ken Loach to the heights of Riff-Raff and Raining Stones — winning stories of working-class life whose politics were integrated rather than smeared on top.

There's little in the way of chick flick about Please Give, which treats its characters and its audience like adults with complex needs, not Ephron-bots waiting for the next Motown song or food montage.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former Yale teacher as well as a recovering heroin addict and compulsive gambler, Milch creates richly detailed worlds that move to their own rhythms, most evident in their ornately circuitous dialogue.

Téchiné's choice of zag over zig certainly succeeds in upending the audience's expectations, although it's not clear to what end.

Zoe Kazan doesn't actually explode in Bradley Rust Gray's finely cut feature, but she's always about to. She lives her life like she's cradling nitroglycerin, taking care lest too firm a jolt set her off.

As shimmering and insubstantial as heat haze, the first film by Gianni Di Gregorio is an evanescent pleasure, an airy morsel that dissolves on the tongue, imparting only the faintest hint of flavor.