“As a heroic drama, Defiance has its clichés and narrative hiccups, but as an examination of the cycle of violence it’s often harrowing.

Meryl Streep acts up a storm in Doubt, and the movie acts up right along with her. The picture, adapted by writer-director John Patrick Shanley from his play, centers on a 1960s Bronx parish seething with distrust. Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Streep), the iron-fisted principal of the parish’s school, finds herself at odds with Father Flynn

Duplicity is a movie built around dazzling dialogue, which makes it a rare and precious thing. There is banter here that could stand up to the snazziest verbal sizzle of Hollywood’s classics, in which Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell or Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert would spar to their own and the audience’s immense amusement.

“Call me a prude, but soft-core porn doesn’t seem a fitting entry point for considering the Holocaust’s agonies.

“Awkward as a social drama – as if Eastwood had only lately seen Boyz N the Hood – yet as another one of his meditations on aging, the movie is on to something.

"If there was any hint of a devil to Che Guevara, you won’t find him in Soderbergh’s intricately documented details."

The Wrestler is about one thing – Mickey Rourke – and that makes the movie both fascinating and limited. This is at once a vanity and an anti-vanity piece for the once-heralded, long-disgraced actor, who plays Randy “The Ram” Robinson – a once-heralded, now-disgraced professional wrestling star of the 1980s. His body a wreck, his

Frost/Nixon dramatizes the behind-the-scenes jockeying that took place during the landmark 1977 television interview between British TV personality David Frost and Nixon. Three years after leaving office, these sessions were the only time Nixon came close to offering the American public anything akin to an apology. Adapted by screenwriter Peter Morgan from his own play

Danny Boyle gives us 21st-century Dickens by way of India. Giddier than A Life Less Ordinary, grimier than Trainspotting, more horrifying – in a real-world way – than 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire takes your breath away before you get a chance to suck it in. Set in contemporary Mumbai, the picture opens on 18-year-old

“Forget the hand-holding tweens in the audience – Twilight itself could use a chaperone.