Aloft Indie drama which screened in competition at Berlin, about a desperate mother (Jennifer Connelly) who turns to a faith healer to cure her terminally ill son, and also about her traumatized other son (Cillian Murphy) who tracks her down 20 years later in the Canadian Arctic. Peruvian filmmaker Claudia ...

Few actors are as legendary as Robert De Niro. Beginning with Mean Streets, De Niro built a jaw-dropping portfolio throughout the ’70s — The Godfather: Part II, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull — immediately establishing himself as one of the greatest film actors of all time. He was ...

What grade should one assign to a likable film that mostly succeeds in accomplishing its goals, but which demonstrates a total lack of ambition or originality? Should it be graded for its own successes, or examined for its relative place in cinema? This is a dilemma that has confronted me ...