CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: It includes such classics as 'The Third Man' and 'The Fallen Idol' and lesser-known ones such as 'Brighton Rock' and 'It Always Rains on Sunday.'
MOVIE REVIEW: John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers team up to create chaos in the city during an anti-terrorist assignment. Did you expect a Valentine's Day movie? You are in for a different kind of heart-throbbi
MOVIE REVIEW: Mel Gibson chose a solid comeback vehicle for his return to top-line acting after nearly eight years away -- a well-written revenge thriller with a strong supporting cast led by Ray Winstone.
MOVIE REVIEW: This stop-motion animated film based on a Belgian TV series is filled with strange and wonderful talking people and animals who, yes, panic at the drop of a hat.
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: The writer-director's debut feature film, about what's left in the wake of the black power movement, delves into her interest in 'the price you pay for dedication to a political movement.'
MOVIE REVIEW: Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser star in a well-meaning but ultimately lukewarm film that attempts to dip into both science and sentiment.
THE ACTOR'S CRAFT: It's easy to forget that he's one of his generation's finest actors, not the 'Cheers' character who most people first saw him as. 'The Messenger' reminds us.
MOVIE REVIEW: A new Tennessee Williams heroine emerges in this unpolished yet intriguing 1920s tale, directed by Jodie Markell and starring Bryce Dallas Howard.
MOVIE REVIEW: Nancy Meyers, the writer-director behind 'Something's Gotta Give,' tells another baby boomer love story, but it doesn't have her usual smarts or humor.
MOVIE REVIEW: Heath Ledger's last project is as unusual and idiosyncratic as its title, and it's Terry Gilliam's most original and accessible work in years.
MOVIE REVIEW: The fun follow-up to the 2007 blockbuster is filled with teen chipmunk drama as the trio face some competition from a female chipmunk singing group.
MOVIE REVIEW: Jeff Bridges is on the road to an Oscar as hard-living country singer Bad Blake. Excellent music and Colin Farrell's impressive turn as a Blake protege and rival are added bonuses.
MOVIE REVIEW: A documentary about Holocaust survivors who gather at a summer retreat in the Catskill Mountains every year is surprising affirmative and joyous.
MOVIE REVIEW: Adam Scott's searing performance as an angry construction worker with heavy relationship issues is one of many strong elements in a memorable film.
MOVIE REVIEW: The complicated marriage between Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sofya has been turned into a showcase for tasty acting by Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren.
MOVIE REVIEW: Meg Ryan takes husband Timothy Hutton hostage to prevent his walking out on her in this comedy directed by Cheryl Hines. The movie feels like a tribute to its screenwriter, the late Adrienne Shelly.
MOVIE REVIEW: Robert De Niro makes one forgive his recent forays into comic fluff with an arresting performance as a concerned father in this remake of a 1990 Italian film.
MOVIE REVIEW: Director John Woo returns to his roots with a different kind of action picture than he is known for in Hollywood, an old-fashioned historical epic based on an AD 208 Chinese battle.
MOVIE REVIEW: The famed director, as played by Christian McKay, can't help but be larger than life, even with Claire Danes and Zac Efron along for the ride.
MOVIE REVIEW: Philippe Diaz's one-sided documentary lays blame for the world's ills on the doorstep of the U.S. and Europe, but its dry, dense construction makes it feel more like a textbook than cinema.
MOVIE REVIEW: Sandra Bullock and newcomer Quinton Aaron have a warm and winning chemistry in director John Lee Hancock's fact-based story of a football-loving white family's adoption of a homeless black teen.
MOVIE REVIEW: Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson lead a strong cast in director Oren Moverman's taut drama about a casualty notification team's struggle to balance duties with private lives.
MOVIE REVIEW: Drawn to another man-in-crisis story, director Werner Herzog delivers a darkly delicious tale in which Nicolas Cage is positively reptilian.
MOVIE REVIEW: The novel demands that Bella and Edward be kept apart, robbing the movie of the crazy love that made 'Twilight' such a guilty pleasure. And about the director ....
MOVIE REVIEW: Too bad Norma and Arthur didn't leave it on the porch. Richard Kelly's latest is no 'Donnie Darko.' The morality tale is fractured, foolish and slow as molasses.
REVIEW: A super-secret unit with paranormal abilities? Sounds outlandish, yet this movie, with its fun performances by a big-name cast, is based on nonfiction.
ON FILM: This season's movies, including 'Precious,' 'The Road,' '2012,' 'Avatar' and 'Up in the Air,' may seem hard to digest in troubled times, but their cast, directors and stories make them worthwhile.
MOVIE REVIEW: The topic is banal, but the film serves in so many ways. From a young Chilean filmmaker, it leaves you off balance, in the best possible way.