The text of Maurice Sendak's classic Where the Wild Things Are is barely longer than this review, yet it’s as incisive a children’s book as has ever been written. The major hurdle facing Spike read more …

Nearly 60 years after John Cage sat down at the piano and didn't play a note for "4'33" and almost a century after Marcel Duchamp unveiled his first "Readymades," art about avant-garde art still read more …

Inspired by his daughter asking why she doesn’t have "good hair," Chris Rock tries to comb through the knotty subject of African-American women's hair — or the stuff on their heads, whether it’s read more …

Saying "There’s an art to what I do" is very different from claiming, "What I do is art," but the mad men (and women) in Doug Pray's ad-world documentary don't seem to recognize that distinction. read more …

Uli Edel's dispassionate dramatization of the short, violent history of the Red Army Faction (RAF) depicts the German domestic terrorist group as a historical inevitability, if not a necessity. Neither read more …

"Hell is a teenage girl," goes the first line in Diablo Cody’s follow-up to Juno, but there's not much scary about read more …

Paris has been captured on so many feet of celluloid that even the City of Lights might burn out trying to project it all. Presumably a film would have to contain some special insight to take the city’s read more …

In a summer whose largest franchise managed to turn robots made from car parts into racial caricatures, a mega-budget sci-fi actioner that confronts actual issues of race and tolerance may seem like it read more …

Like so many screenwriters-turned-directors, Guillermo Arriaga, freed from the tether of another helmer's editorial restraints, overindulges in the writerly gimmicks for which he’s known. The intertwining read more …

In 2006, writer Colin Beavan embarked on the No Impact Project, a year long attempt to live, along with his wife and infant daughter, without making any environmental impact whatsoever, blogging all the read more …