The end of the world, as witnessed by a manic-depressive bride. That’s a pithy way of describing Melancholia, yet the movie has a remoteness, a staginess, that doesn’t allow you to get much closer. As another piece of nihilistic provocation from Danish writer-director Lars von Trier, it’s never anything less than arresting, but always in

Even with the spanking, this is a bit of a bore. Despite its seemingly perfect match of filmmaker and subject – bodily minded director David Cronenberg and the sexually charged rise of psychoanalysis – A Dangerous Method is further evidence that movies are most interestingly about something when they aren’t so obviously about it. Based

"…manages to balance a spiritual sense of grace with the earthy eye of a here-and-now realist."

"…rough, sickening stuff – not in a morally offensive way, but in the way that it lays bare the rot that can fester in the human soul."

"…a series of increasingly alarmed faces looking at papers and computer screens."

“Hunter S. Thompson hated phonies; in a lot of ways, The Rum Diary is one.

“A kinder, gentler, less interesting Alexander Payne.

“DiCaprio is as effective as possible while laboring under pounds of aging makeup. He is, by all accounts, OK.

"A Civil Rights drama that artfully dramatizes the love for one’s enemy espoused by Martin Luther King."

“The scariest man in movies right now might be Tom Hardy. He somehow makes his sinews seethe.