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By LINDA STASISteven Spielberg's "Lincoln'' showed as a (not-so) "secret screening'' as a work-in-progress Monday night at the New York Film Festival. While there are many things to like about this bio-pic covering the last three months of Lincoln's... Full Story
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‘Frankenweenie’’ is Tim Burton’s best film in years. With this expanded, beautifully realized and highly entertaining animated version of his famous...
In the surprise 2009 box-office smash “Taken,’’ Liam Neeson played a retired CIA operative who rescues his teenage daughter from Albanian white...
‘The Paperboy” can’t decide whether to be an unfunny sex comedy, a half-hearted detective story or a woeful race drama — so it decides to be all...
The title character may be morbidly obese, but the jokes and story are thin in the coming-of-age dramedy “Fat Kid Rules the World.” Jacob Wysocki...
In a village in Cambodia, Alex, a handsome US Army veteran (Dermot Mulroney) and his beautiful wife, Claire (Mira Sorvino), are fighting the child...
What starts out as unpromising shaky-cam antics quickly turns dark and compelling in this low-budget horror showcase featuring the directorial...
Swiss director Ursula Meier’s drama dawdles at first, following its 12-year-old protagonist Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) through his every move as he...
‘A sperm to a woman is like I am to Salvador,” Brazilian street artist Bel Borba muses at the start of this documentary. He’s referring to Salvador...
‘it would be one thing if it was draconian and it worked,” says “The Wire” creator David Simon of America’s war on drugs. “But it’s draconian, and it...
At times, the Midwestern satire “Butter” is almost funny, and in its honor I almost laughed. “Butter” is a would-be “Best in Show” of the dairy belt,...
Emily Brontë’s classic tragic romance has enjoyed a mainstream renaissance lately, thanks to its shout-outs in the “Twilight” series. But this...
Imagine Stanley Donen’s “Blame It on Rio” — that ’80s comedy where Michael Caine slept with his best friend’s teen daughter — taking place instead in...
The bombshell announcement at the press conference for Warner Home Video's 90th anniversary releases: a 3-D conversion of "The Wizard Oz'' will be...
On this week's "Name Check," actors Jenn Harris and Matthew Wilkas stop by The Post to chat with Michael Riedel about their independent movie, "Gayby...
The action-packed trailer for next summer's highly anticipated movie "The Lone Ranger" is out. Armie Hammer, who plays the title character, debuted...
Oh, Shih Tzu. Sparky is probably the ugliest dog you’ll ever lay eyes on. At the Westminster Dog Show, he’d take home a blue ribbon in the coveted...
She did what to him? Even if you know nothing else about “The Paperboy,” you may have heard about the film’s most gee-whiz scene — the one in which...
We've come to know Anna Kendrick as the type-A chatterbox who shows up all perky and bright-eyed and launches into rapid-fire dialogue directed at...
Being a contract killer is difficult, if often well paying, under the best of circumstances. For Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the retro-futuristic...
"I love you awesome nerds,” says one girl to her fellow a cappella singers at the end of the college singing-group comedy “Pitch Perfect,” and who...
The monster-humanization lobby has been active in Hollywood for some time now. (Why else would Mel Gibson still be getting work?) The latest pro...
The rousing school-choice movie “Won’t Back Down” is (already!) inspiring teachers’ unions to protest it with its standard dial-a-mob tactics, but...
"The Other Dream Team’’ is possibly the best documentary ever made about basketball in Lithuania. But it’s more than just a sports movie: It tells...
Remember “Occupy Wall Street,” the public people pileup of college students who didn’t want to pay their bills, homeless dudes following the smell of...
The first “BearCity” was frequently described as a “Sex and the City” with gay men — specifically, the hairy, brawny or heavyset guys known as bears...
The latest from French animation master Michel Ocelot is a film composed of six different tales. The framing story concerns an aging filmmaker who...
Three brothers and their sister take a heart-tugging journey to Israel and Austria to trace the footsteps of their father, Joseph Fisher, a Hungarian...
Getting a token theatrical release following its video-on-demand run nearly three years after it played in Europe, this cut-rate epic in the “Lord of...
A fantasy epic about a zookeeper’s son adrift at sea with a Bengal tiger. A New Jersey-set drama by the “Sopranos’’ creator that swaps rockers for...
Maggie Gyllenhaal has built a reputation on playing edgy characters. Her breakout role in 2002’s “Secretary” featured the actress getting trussed up...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Bruce Willis! Bruce Willis is Joseph Gordon-Levitt! At least for the purposes of “Looper,” the new sci-fi movie in which the...
In “Trouble With the Curve,” Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” character tells “Moneyball” to get off his lawn, and it’s a baseball field. Eastwood is...
"House at the End of the Street'' was not screened for critics until Thursday night, a tactic often employed by studios trying to avoid opening day...
Has any police department in the country been portrayed in a more consistently negative way than Hollywood’s hometown cops, the LAPD? Woody...
What’s the surefire way to guarantee you’ll be happy with the movie adaptation of your best-selling book? Keep the rights and sign on yourself as...
While countless novelists have written screenplays, it’s extremely rare for one to also direct a film version of his own work — the only two I can...
The Sylvester Stallone fascist police-state movies were bad enough the first time. Do they really think they’re fooling us by calling the remake...
In 1987, in spite of a worldwide death toll of 500,000, AIDS was still a remote phenomenon for many Americans, unaware of the apocalyptic nightmare...
These days Elliott Gould’s long, saturnine features have sunk beneath a turf of gray stubble, but the nasal blare of his trombone voice is exactly...
‘You can see the approach of revolution in clothes,” declared Diana Vreeland, the most famous fashion editor of them all. “You can see everything in...
An Olympic rower in training, 29-year-old Abigail (Sarah Megan Thomas, also writer and producer) has spent the past 10 years locked in a rigorous...
Dear Penthouse Forum: I was just an innocent 18-year-old blonde when my boyfriend mentioned I should take my clothes off and pose for pictures for...
Long before Occupy Wall Street, there was Bob Fass, the legendary overnight host on WBAI whose 50-year career is lovingly saluted in the documentary...
In “The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best,” half of the musical duo embarking on an eccentric US tour vows, “We’re gonna change the course of human...
A 16-year-old girl (Louise Grinberg), beautiful and something of a ringleader among her clique, finds herself pregnant. Entranced by her fantasies of...
The 1950s were a time of enormous turmoil for Hollywood. Movie audience -- which had peaked in 1946 -- plummeted as audiences began abandoning bijous...
TORONTO — Many actors over the decades have received Oscar nominations playing characters with disabilities — and some have even won. There was no...
To audiences, it would have been a lame joke in a forgettable John Candy comedy. To the Church of Scientology, it meant war. In 1991’s “Delirious,”...
Director Steven Spielberg says that out of all his movies, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” is one of the few he can get wrapped up in and experience like...
A sad, cold wind blows across the mantle in Richard Gere’s home, sweeping through the empty space like a storm blowing across the Kansas prairie. It...
According to all these Wall Street movies, it seems that some of these financial wizards may not be strictly on the level. A hedge-fund whiz (Richard...
In an unusual move, Walt Disney Co.’s DreamWorks Pictures and Google Play jointly debuted the theatrical trailer for “Lincoln” Thursday. The trailer...
The tepid high school reunion dramedy “10 Years” enlists seemingly all of Hollywood’s early-30-something actors to play the world’s best-looking...
Josh Radnor is a nice-looking, button-eyed, completely harmless sitcom personality (“How I Met Your Mother,” apparently) who has gotten the...
‘The Master’’ is the first American feature film in two decades shot entirely in the archaic 70mm film format. But is this anything more than a...
No one can claim to be blindsided by director Cassie Jaye’s staunch advocacy of same-sex marriage. It’s in her documentary’s title: “The Right To...
Well-meant but ultimately of interest primarily to devout anglers, Richard Imamura and Cory Shiozaki’s self-distributed documentary explores an...
Divorced couple Robert (John Shea) and Emily (Lea Thompson) drink, eat and reignite old sparks in this intimate, honest exploration of relationship...
Ten years after making a documentary about chef Michel Bras and his three-Michelin-star restaurant in France’s Aubrac region, director Paul Lacoste...
There may be a lot left to say about Hurricane Katrina, but if so, “I’m Carolyn Parker” doesn’t say it. Director Jonathan Demme wandered into the...
Melissa Leo, who won an Oscar for a notably talkative turn in “The Fighter,” here plays an ex-convict who scarcely speaks at all. When Leo does say...
TORONTO — “The Master’’ isn’t the Scientology exposé it was rumored to be, despite speculation that its release was moved up a month to exploit the...