The curiouser and curiouser thing about Tim Burton?s Alice in Wonderland is how he actually manages to find new wonderment in this oft-told tale.

A note passes from hand to hand in a climactic moment of The Ghost Writer , Roman Polanski's rewarding new drama. The scene is highly suspenseful, yet it also prompts a wry smile.

The real detective work required for Brooklyn's Finest , Antoine Fuqua's ensemble cop drama opening Friday, is why this movie with its blue-ribbon cast led by such a talented director ( Training Day ) fails to jell.

Anyone who believes in the corrective potential of prison life is guaranteed to be plunged into despair by A Prophet , a commanding new film by genre master Jacques Audiard.

One of two micro-budgeted Canadian movies playing the Royal this week (the other is Zooey & Adam ), At Home By Myself ... With You has already earned some attention due to its director's unique efforts to get the money to make it.

Fifteen years after a group of Danish mavericks outlined a manifesto for a leaner, purer brand of cinema they dubbed Dogme, some directors are still trying to strip down the filmmaking process to its bare essentials.

Once trapped in a gilded cage of rom-coms and generic thrillers, Ashley Judd now regularly ventures into more challenging territory.

A mother stifles a cry, tears choking her words.

Given a choice between watching Cop Out again or driving iron spikes into my eyeballs, I would probably choose Cop Out ? but I'd have to seriously think about it.

There's something "not right" about some of the citizens of sleepy Ogden Marsh, Iowa. One minute they're going about their business. The next, they're stark-staring bonkers and homicidal maniacs to boot.