Annette Bening

Not the stodgy costume drama it may appear to be...To Bening's triumph, the audience can only love Julia, warts and all, by picture's end.

With its compulsive theatricality, Running With Scissors enacts what may be the most unpleasant brand of insanity in a film full of them.

In a time of mind-numbing rom coms, Ruby Sparks uses fantasy to get real about modern romance.

The kind of movie you root for to get its act together..Take the great Kristen Wiig out...and it would be unbearable.

In his screenplay and performance as Hughes, Beatty offers a canny, sharply drawn, and highly personal take on the billionaire, with strong elements of lacerating self-parody. 

Empathetic and self-searching...a highly witty, deeply humane look at people who may be too conscious for their own good, people who think and feel too much ever to be truly happy.

To watch another obscure hero beget a franchise-building smash-hit movie means marveling at Marvel once again.