Paranoid Park is a place for only the most hardcore skateboarders. A severe cluster of concrete ramps, rails and ledges, it was built by and ...

Lovely girl, Norah Jones. That sultry voice, armfuls of Grammys, a multiplatinum debut album that produced the ubiquitous hit "Don't Know Why." But for all ...

More is more in "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," the follow-up to the 2005 fantasy hit "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch ...

War brings out the best and worst in people, and the documentary "Nanking" perfectly illustrates that. The film chronicles the 1937 occupation of the former ...

Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt makes her directorial debut with "Then She Found Me," in which she also stars and receives a writing credit. It's no ...

It sounds like a jarring combination at first -- until you learn that Mamet holds a purple belt in jiujitsu. Then you realize while watching ...

There's an unwritten rule about romantic comedies that is pretty much a given. No matter how formulaic the script, if the audience falls in love ...

The Wachowski Brothers -- they of the "Matrix" trilogy -- again look to revolutionize film in "Speed Racer," a 129-minute sugar rush that blends dazzling ...

Set in the south of France, "Priceless" features an ultimately tasteless, empty story about people who do degrading things to themselves and others. That said, ...

Although some girls have been content to say they're with the band, more intrepid ones actually want to be in the band. It's the latter ...

The suit looks way cool. Robert Downey Jr. is a hoot as playboy industrialist Tony Stark. Industrial Light & Magic performs its usual wizardry with ...

The whole point of a romantic comedy is the comfort of the ritual -- as if you're wrapping yourself in a warm, snuggly blanket of ...

A group of singing old people is out to prove rock never dies in "Young @ Heart,"is a marvelous, funny and touching documentary. This film ...

'The Life Before Her Eyes' is just as beautiful as its lead actresses, Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. Based on the Laura Kasischke novel ...

What can compare with the white-knuckle suspense of uploading a file? "Deception," that's what. This is a movie jam-packed with all the thrills of watching ...

In "Baby Mama," Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey of "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock") hears her biological clock ticking, but she isn't ready for the ...

Beware when a new film insists on reminding you of its "first" onscreen pairing of star actors X and Y. Like Nigerian "investors" e-mailing strangers ...

The title conjures up images of fresh snow, smiles, laughter and happy-go-lucky romance -- but "Snow Angels" is a David Gordon Green film: Impending tragedy ...

So perhaps the rumors of Judd Apatow's demise were greatly exaggerated. Following the disappointing performance of "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" and the flop ...

The Kentucky Derby and the other two legs of the Triple Crown series represent much of what's wrong with thoroughbred racing in America. Newly turned ...

Bad news: Al Pacino's serial-killer thriller "88 Minutes" loiters around for 19 minutes longer than the title suggests. Worse: It feels like 188 minutes. A ...

In his latest Michael Moore-esque stab at documentary filmmaking, director Morgan Spurlock "takes on a franchise even more lethal than McDonald's -- al-Qaeda." Spurlock wants ...

'Smart People" isn't as smart as it thinks it is, despite some wickedly snappy dialogue. Novelist-turned-screenwriter Mark Poirier gives the capable, eclectic cast some zingers ...

It's curious that we haven't seen more movies about immigration. The ingredients are there: Hugely divisive issue, compelling human drama, political implications all over the ...

In cinema, there are two categories of mediocre. On one hand you have films that just aren't very good, but are still moderately enjoyable. On ...

Ira Sachs' "Married Life" begins with Harry taking Richard into his confidence at a martinis-and-cigarettes lunch that confirms the movie is set in 1949. Harry ...

Sometimes the most powerful moments in history aren't recorded on the front pages of newspapers or turned into the lead items of television newscasts. Forty ...

It's impossible to walk into "Shine a Light," Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones concert film, without decades' worth of expectations. We simply know too much about ...

The only "fatboy" in "Run Fatboy Run" is the landlord character, Mr. Ghoshdashtidar, but the title does not refer to him; it refers to his ...

For her first film since 1999's "Boys Don't Cry," Kimberly Peirce initially wanted to make a documentary about soldiers who had fought in the Iraq ...