Tommy Lee Jones

The 2013 Oscars Drinking Game

The Oscars are on Sunday, and if you plan on sitting through the entire show -- all 3 hours of it, with Seth MacFarland as host -- well, you might need a little help. Which is why we put together a little drinking game: This, hopefully, will give you something to do while the awards are doled out, ... More >>

Writers Guild Awards 2013: Behind the Scenes

Last night, men and women who are more used to working at home in their pajamas donned black tie attire for the 2013 Writers Guild Awards at the J.W. Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live -- and it seemed like a surprisingly number of media didn't really care. (Except us, of course.) With a red carpet th ... More >>

We'd Like to Mock the Academy

Our 2012 Film Poll: Movie Critics Nationwide Pick the Year's Best

Lincoln Review: Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis Make the 16th President Relatable

Men in Black 3 Review

Bummer of '69

Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead

"What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

Captain America Review

The Company Men: Men Without Balls

Ben Affleck, emasculated by the economic crisis

AFI Fest A to Z: Hey Man, Yeah

Our critics' picks for what to see and skip at this year's festival

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

End of the Decade: Alien Nation

Notes on unseen masterpieces, great performances, and movies as a form of solitary confinement

THAT'S LAVA B-S

Stage Raw: As You Like It

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

Performance Pick: Fast Road to Nowhere

Two Headed Dog's City on the Edge

Stage Raw: Clowntown City Limits

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITSPhoto by Ed RachlesImagine a personable, grimy, makeup-smeared, cigar-chomping guy in a tank top, not unlike Tommy Lee Jones, playing cards outdoors on the porch of some tra ... More >>

CSI Paris: French Crime at LACMA

Movie Reviews: An American Affair, Phoebe in Wonderland, 12

Also, Between Love & Goodbye, Toyo's Camera and more

Mist Opportunity

Not many films in the 60 years since Robert Flaherty's immortal Louisiana Story have evoked the atmosphere of the Bayou State as strongly as Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist, a movie that doesn't seem to have been filmed so much as distilled, on a creaking porch beset by mosquitos and summe ... More >>

Berlin Film Festival: Mist Opportunity

Not many films in the 60 years since Robert Flaherty's immortal Louisiana Story have evoked the atmosphere of the Bayou State as strongly as Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist, a movie that doesn't seem to have been filmed so much as distilled, on a creaking porch beset by mosquitos and summ ... More >>

Run Naomi Run

For the next 10 days, I'll be posting regularly from the Berlin International Film Festival (a.k.a. the Berlinale), generally considered to be the second largest festival in Europe (after Cannes) and, at 59, one of the oldest. This year, the Berlinale's international competition will feature the wor ... More >>

Berlin Film Festival: Run Naomi Run

For the next 10 days, I'll be posting regularly from the Berlin International Film Festival (a.k.a. the Berlinale), generally considered to be the second largest festival in Europe (after Cannes) and, at 59, one of the oldest. This year, the Berlinale's international competition will feature the wo ... More >>

Taking No Chances

Those searching for signs of how leaner economic times are being felt at Sundance 2009 need look no further than the fact that the festival's opening weekend yielded only one major sale -- and that one was something of a foregone conclusion. Although the tepid reaction to director Antoine Fuqua's Br ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: Taking No Chances

Those searching for signs of how leaner economic times are being felt at Sundance 2009 need look no further than the fact that the festival's opening weekend yielded only one major sale -- and that one was something of a foregone conclusion. Although the tepid reaction to director Antoine Fuqua's Br ... More >>

On Bonnie and Clyde's 40th Anniversary, a DVD Tribute Fans the Revolutionary Embers

One critic takes a second glance at his first impression

Badlands

Coen brothers transcend themselves with No Country for Old Men

Walk Through the Valley

Don’t let Paul Haggis’ heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

The Devil May Care

William Friedkin on Bug, Cruising and nights at the opera

Grindhouse Gang

Quentin Tarantino summons the masters to historic summit

Reporting From Mexico

Impressive fest proves Peter Bart wrong

Plains Song

A Prairie Home Companion takes to the screen

The Craftsman

Robert Altman learned moviemaking before the auteur era; long after, he’s still telling stories

Coming of Age in the Mouth of Madness

The kids of Skid Row

Good Old Boy

Tommy Lee Jones saddles up

Hollywood’s Newest Age of Liberal Cinema

10 Great Small Performances

Bring Me the Head of Melquiades Estrada

Crossing the border with Tommy Lee Jones’ elegiac Western

The Man With the Golden Camera

Cannes 2005: The verdict is in

Alexander the Not-So-Hot

Oliver Stone aims for respectability

Alias Smith and Jones

Up and down the tubes with MIIB's J and K

Deliverance

Director Marc Forster breaks out

Bombs Away

Revising history in Pearl Harbor

Glamour Guys of Geezer Gulch

The beautiful butt-ugly truth about Space Cowboys

The Sorcerer

William Friedkin on set