Catherine Keener

Spike Jonze: 'That was sort of the goal of the movie, really, just to try and capture the feeling, to make a movie from the point of view of a nine-year-old. So the viewer is for that period of time experiencing the world from that vantage point.'

Miller freely uses the unusual as an allegory for the most usual of subjects: parentage and the rocky path from childhood to adulthood.

A second-rate morality play, with red herrings and MacGuffins shoring up a tower of Babel. Do yourself a favor and rent Death and the Maiden instead.

Sweet and raunchy in equal measure, which I suppose makes it the aged-to-perfection version of American Pie.

Radiating serpentine self-absorption, Philip Seymour Hoffman embodies a youthful Truman Capote.

Gives the characters relatable failings and the story some ironic bite...[but] lacks the depth of empathy Holofcener showed in Lovely and Amazing.

It's Coogan's show, in a grotesquely overstated performance that makes sense for the character but isn't always easy to watch.

Penn has managed an impressive achievement that qualifies as a great American film.

A fine conversation piece for gifted kids—assuming parents willing to talk to their kids about their feelings...also a fascinating psychological study for adults looking back on the roiling emotions of childhood.

Jake’s ever-present video camera notes the sign 'Woodstock 3 mi.'—but it should read 'Shameless Contrivances 3 mi.'...make tracks, not love.

May be obvious and it may be clumsy, but it's also at least a little bit thoughtful, and there's never a dull moment.

A comedy of separation anxiety and conjoining anxiety...When Holofcener gets Dreyfus and Gandolfini alone, Enough Said is a beautiful thing.

What's most interesting about Get Out is how it taps into the same idea to fuel both its comedy and horror: the recognition of social truths.

Plays it safe...another issue of the Incredibles comic book, another big-scale adventure with full-throttle action sequences, a bit of mystery, and career complications testing the structural integrity of this nuclear family of superheroes.

A straight procedural, consumed by its plot at the expense of thematic nuance. Nevertheless...a darkly compelling reminder of the multifaceted folly of our War on Drugs.