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When Robin Williams playing a Catholic priest is the most restrained, subtle thing in a new slapstick farce masquerading as a rom-com family drama, there's a problem. And

The Place Beyond the Pines opens with long, lingering, loving tracking shots of a heavily tattooed Ryan Gosling as Luke, as he heads into battle for the evening,

Admission has all the hallmarks of a standard romantic comedy: likeable everyman protagonist? Paul Rudd. Check. Likeable everywoman heroine? Tina Fey. Check. High Class Problem to be solved:

Helen Hunt scored an Oscar nomination for The Sessions, and John Hawkes has been widely praised for his bedridden performance as poet Mark O'Brien, who was confined largely

If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy, and the eponymous being at the center of the new "Guillermo del Toro presents" is decidedly not happy for most of

This is 40 is the "sort of sequel" to Judd Apatow's 2007 hit Knocked Up. Gone are Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen, back are Pete and Debbie --

Three things become apparent while watching Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey with the new 48-frame-per-second projection technology. #1: Certain scenes with 48 FPS are dazzling, even revelatory

Richard Linklater's Bernie was released in theatres this spring and on DVD earlier this fall, with little fanfare other than that reserved for Jack Black's eponymous performance, now

There's a point in Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2 where the Cullen in-laws are instructing vampire "newborn" Bella (Kristen Stewart), in the art of passing herself off as human.