Acting chameleon Edward Norton finally finds a color he can’t match, and it’s a surprisingly conventional hue: that of a tragic romantic lead. Norton plays a magician in 1900 Vienna who discovers his childhood love (Jessica Biel) is unhappily engaged to a sinister crown prince (Rufus Sewell). Norton should set the tone for this moody,

9 Songs flits back and forth between concert footage of contemporary rock bands and explicit scenes of actors Kieran O’Brien and Margo Stilley – as a fictional couple named Matt and Lisa – having actual sex. It doesn’t take long for both elements to become incredibly boring. You might think some sort of arty, intellectual

Those who were surprised by the lightness of Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can must have forgotten this, his first feature. It’s a serious story – an ex-con busts her husband out of jail to reclaim their baby from the foster system – yet it has a looseness and wit Spielberg rarely shows. That’s

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If Spielberg’s account of the Holocaust is not his greatest movie, it is still the defining moment of his career, the point where his yearning to be taken seriously (The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun) finally fully merged with his filmmaking talents. Schindler’s List brought Spielberg to a new level because he was able

The Searchers has such disturbing implications concerning racism and sexual panic beneath its familiar Western elements that it was years before anyone felt comfortable enough to discuss what the movie was actually about. The part of Ethan Edwards is one of John Wayne’s most conflicted roles, that of a brave man whose most valiant gestures

A “women’s picture” that features people rather than platitudes. This is a family portrait of two sisters and their mother, all of whom have lives that are functioning but fractured. Thankfully, writer-director Nicole Holofcener (Walking and Talking) doesn’t go for grand gestures in the manner of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. As a low-budget,