Faced with a saloon full of suspicious townsfolk, the stranger Rango (Johnny Depp) does what any chameleon would do: He fits in. He slurps his gut-burning cactus juice, he makes up a story about killing read more …

The lioness who embodies the titular lament of Dereck Joubert’s latest documentary is surely courageous. When her mate is killed by a pack of marauding lions, she must care for her cubs, which means finding read more …

Again with the Nic Cage conundrum. Is he so shrewd and wondrous as he can appear, in movies ranging from Vampire's Kiss through Adaptation and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call? Or read more …

On his pretty surface, John Smith (Alex Pettyfer) is as generic as his name — tall, chiseled, blondish from his long hours on the beach. But he has a secret, revealed almost immediately: He’s an alien read more …

Algeria’s Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) fought for independence from France from 1954 to 1962. The struggle takes a form that’s part melodrama and part action film in Rachid Bouchareb’s movie, which read more …

In The Confession, 9-year-old Sam worries that he doesn’t have any sins to reveal for his first confession. When he and his best friend conjure a scheme to provide one, it goes spectacularly wrong. read more …

This year’s selection of Oscar-nominated animated shorts range from the typically witty Pixar entry, Day & Night (written and directed by Teddy Newton) to Geefwee Boedoe’s environmentalist Let’s read more …

When Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on Dec. 27, 2007, her family was horrified but not altogether shocked. According to Duane Baughman and Johnny O’Hara’s documentary, hers was a life of tumult and tragedy: read more …

Tim McGraw doesn’t sing in this movie. Instead, as country music industry mentor-manager James, he looks on mournfully as others do. He's sad because his superstar wife, Kelly Canter (Gwyneth Paltrow), read more …

Reflecting on the fate of his native Iceland, whose economy was ravaged when banks collapsed in 2008, filmmaker Andri Magnason introduces an essential concern of Inside Job: “Nothing comes without read more …