Guy Ritchie has always been, if anything, a very stylish director. He launched his career with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, two very idiosyncratic films that wielded their surprising lowlife vulgarity as a kind of cinematic street art; these early films established Ritchie as an auteur with ...

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 ...

As the glut of summer sequels begin screening this month, a sense of dread inevitably falls upon the high-minded adult filmgoer. Not to say that an Iron Man or a Star Trek or a Hangover doesn’t have its pleasures, but these films do serve as a reminder that we’re in ...

When it comes to 3D films, I usually subscribe to the notion that 2D is preferable whenever possible. I have yet to be convinced that 3D is the future of movie-making the way James Cameron would like me to. That said, there have been a few films that I’ve actively ...