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,

You could choreograph the entire plot outline of Step Up after hearing only a brief description of the movie’s premise, but the dancing is another matter entirely. This follows the cliched, Romeo-and-Juliet romance between a criminally inclined Baltimore street dancer (Channing Tatum) and a high-strung ballet student (Jenna Dewan), but rather than concentrating on the

One of Shelley Winters first significant roles – long before The Poseidon Adventure – was that of Alice Tripp, a factory girl who falls for Montgomery Clift’s George Eastman. George, however, has higher goals – especially when he meets a stunning socialite played by Elizabeth Taylor. It’s a love triangle that turns criminally complicated when