Julianne Moore

Thoughtful and energetic....Anderson has in Ryan's story a bittersweet exemplar for the unsung toil and love of prefeminist desperate housewives...

The uncommon flavor and unconventional rhythms of Price's writing make Freedomland compelling.

By the end, I felt empty and unconvinced that I'd spent 103 minutes with genuine personalities.

The earnestness of Cage and tough-as-nails Moore backfires in the face of godawful dialogue and a very poorly established central conceit.

In Cuarón's highly-skilled hands, Children of Men continuously threatens to develop into something more fascinating than it is.

Disturbing in the extreme, Savage Grace gives a guided history tour of a family as dysfunctional as they come.

A patient and never less than gripping character study that serves as a reminder of the emotional intimacy achievable on film.

Any film that features Johnny Depp performing salutes to the great silent comedians (and, in particular, Buster Keaton) deserves a little slack...

By the time Rath and Bain have it out in a ramshackle, condemned motel with floors that keep giving away under them, we realize this final setting is a metaphor for the film itself.

It's the whole proud, embarrassing sociopolitical, cultural heap of American history—and the American Century in particular—in two fleet, funny hours.

Still still hums with humanity in the person of Moore, whose towering performance shows a staggering technical proficiency while never losing a whit of emotional resonance.

No movie can fully suppress the talents of Moore, Page, and Shannon, but in Ron Nyswaner’s script, every theme gets put in a character’s mouth, and every plot point gets telegraphed, mailed, emailed, and texted ahead of its arrival.

If the franchise continues to feel a bit dull—heavy on the drama and light on the excitement, with pageantry long in the rear-view—there’s a respectable purity in the films’ political cynicism and populist fervor.

A not-unpleasant 98 minutes that’s nevertheless understocked with comic zest and thematic incisiveness.

On balance, Wonderstruck should capture the imaginations of precocious kids up for something a little deeper than usual.