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Bill Murray as FDR? The casting might sound weird at first. But Murray's subtly charming presence ends up being one of the stronger elements of the otherwise lightweight romance "Hyde Park on Hudson."

"Promised Land" offers an experience that's alternately amusing and frustrating, full of impassioned earnestness as well as saggy sections. Director Gus Van Sant has the challenging task of taking the divisive, high-tech practice of fracking and trying to make it ...

NEW YORK — Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal were knee-deep in preparing the follow-up to their Oscar-winning "The Hurt Locker," a film that would chronicle the manhunt for Osama bin Laden, his escape in Tora Bora and the vanishing trail ...

Merritt David Janes had one question when he approached "Catch Me If You Can," the musical version of the 2002 Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks film about a con man who posed as a pilot, lawyer and doctor - all ...

The schmaltz is piled on thick, and if the comedy were any broader it would require an Imax screen, but still there's something touching about how hard Billy Crystal and Bette Midler hustle to peddle the threadbare material that makes ...

There was a time when Cirque du Soleil had the element of surprise, pulling into your town under cover of dark, with no Wikipedia or YouTube to make sense of what you were about to see.

Tom Hooper’s extravaganza, big-screen telling of the beloved musical “Les Miserables” is as relentlessly driven as the ruthless Inspector Javert himself. It is enormous and sprawling and not the slightest bit subtle. But at the same time, it’s hard not ...

For his latest blood fest, "Django Unchained," Quentin Tarantino largely replays all of his other blood fests, specifically his last flick, "Inglourious Basterds."

"This Is 40" is every inch a Judd Apatow movie, from the pop culture references and potty mouths to the blunt body humor and escapist drug use. Like all the movies he's directed — and it's amazing to think there ...

So maybe Tom Cruise doesn't exactly resemble the Jack Reacher of British novelist Lee Child's books: a 6-foot-5, 250-pound, blond behemoth. But it doesn't matter, "Reacher" is clever, well-crafted and darkly humorous, and it features one of those effortless bad-ass ...

This must have been the easiest movie to sell: Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen as mother and son. The poster alone for “Guilt Trip” is irresistible: two of them crammed into a small car, Mom driving Sonny crazy and piling ...

Peter Jackson shot his epic, three-part "Lord of the Rings" prequel with a frame rate of 48 images per second, double the 24 that cinemagoers have experienced for the past century. The higher frame rate is supposed to make fast ...

This is supposed to be the time of year when high-quality movies come out, whether they're potential Oscar contenders or crowd-pleasing family fare. So the presence of flat, hacky, unfunny dreck like "Playing for Keeps" — is a total mystery.

The man who made "Psycho" was no lightweight, although he kind of comes off that way in "Hitchcock."

Much of the best comedy derives from personal pain, and comic turned filmmaker Mike Birbiglia deftly transposes his stand-up routine to the big screen in "Sleepwalk With Me."