After the intense sadness that they wove throughout their last film, 2013’s great Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen switch gears into pure light-hearted silliness with their latest, Hail, Caesar! This isn’t the first time that the auteur brothers have made a broad all-star comedy to cleanse their palate ...

When a movie star decides to try his or her hand at directing, the results are not always a rousing success. For every Ben Affleck or Clint Eastwood or Robert Redford or Sarah Polley, there’s a Jason Bateman (whose Bad Words last year was terrible) or Ryan Gosling (this spring’s ...