Movies World - Reviews - Part 1

Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg” crystallizes the Ben Stiller persona.

The most striking thing about “The Runaways,” a new film about the trailblazing bad-girl rock band from the 1970s, is how authentic it feels.

Kathryn Bigelow’s two-fisted win at the Academy Awards has helped dismantle stereotypes about what types of films women can and should direct.

“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and its celebrated director arrive in America, each trailing big expectations.

Although she was perhaps the biggest female star of the silent era, Norma Talmadge is barely remembered today.

Rendez-Vous With French Cinema may lack a certifiable masterpiece, but it offers a fair number of B-plus or better adult features, and no real duds.

In a competition at the South by Southwest festival, film and television titles get the credit(s).

A virtual futures exchange is being assembled to allow people to bet money on a film’s box office success.

Ryan Seacrest failed to ask celebrities on the Oscars red carpet what they were wearing. Does he need a lesson in fashion reporting?

The Oscars telecast exposed an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in identity crisis: the ceremony was big and commercial; the winners were small and arty.

Mr. Haim was an actor whose status as a teenage heartthrob of the 1980s gave way to substance abuse and rehabilitation as an adult.

A work-in-progress viewing of a documentary about Eliot Spitzer, directed by Alex Gibney, will be shown as a special event at the Tribeca Film Festival.

In “Green Zone,” action under pressure is a test and a revelation of character.

A son’s arrest for murder leads to a parent’s crusade in “Mother.”

In “Remember Me” love means never having to say you’re sorry, particularly to the audience.

“Severe Clear” puts you in the boots of a Marine fighting in Iraq in 2003.

“Children of Invention,” a modestly scaled, quietly effective independent movie about a struggling single mother and her two children.

“The Exploding Girl” is Bradley Rust Gray’s sweet and tentative new film.

“Stolen” plays like a middling episode of “Law & Order: SVU,” drawn out an extra half-hour.

Schlubby nice guy meets pneumatic blonde in “She’s Out of My League.”

“Our Family Wedding” offers plenty that’s old, borrowed and blue; it’s the something new that’s missing.

“Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi” is as unsettling and complex as the country it traverses.

“White on Rice” is an Asian-American domestic dramedy that’s determined to be as culture-neutral as possible.

In Peter Hanson’s dishy documentary “Tales From the Script,” 46 screenwriters gab agreeably about the tribulations of their profession.

When the liveliest character in a movie is the heroine’s pet turtle, you know you’re in for some seriously stately filmmaking.

Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” is busy, garish and periodically amusing.

The complaint accuses Variety of contractual breach, negligence and unfair business practices in connection with the film, “Iron Cross.”

Some fear a proposed change to a film incentive program would discriminate against productions with gay characters.

In such a move, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer would be taken over by its creditors in exchange for debt forgiveness, people briefed on the matter said.

The filmmaker’s documentary-style 1972 horror movie “The Legend of Boggy Creek” influenced the hit film “The Blair Witch Project.”

With a petition to the F.C.C. and a letter to Congressional leaders, cable and satellite providers said the current rules were “broken and in need of repair.”

The Iraq war drama “The Hurt Locker” took home the Oscar for best picture, while its director, Kathryn Bigelow, became the first woman to win an Oscar for best director.

The show business trade paper said “economic reality” dictated jobs cuts, eight in total.

The films of Bollywood are gaining more momentum, and interest, in the United States.

The team behind “The Cove” set up a sting operation at a restaurant that officials say served illegal whale meat.

Todd McCarthy, the veteran film reviewer for Variety who was let go from that position on Monday, has joined the selection committee of the New York Film Festival.

Brooklyn Bowl will present screenings of "U2 3D," the 2008 concert film that depicts Bono and company in all their eye-popping dimensions.