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.

What if Gus Van Sant had made Milk as if he were actually Gus Van Sant? That’s all I could think while watching this stately, well-mannered movie biography of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold a major political office when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.

I’ve Loved You So Long takes someone guilty of an inhuman act and gets us to recognize their universal humanity. Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) has recently been released from prison after 15 years (I’ll let the movie reveal her crime in its own, judicious time). Though they haven’t communicated in most of that time, she

“…exists on a more realistic plane than something like Lethal Weapon or Rush Hour. Watching it, you feel like you’re walking a cop’s beat.

“For a drama about a missing child, Changeling is curiously devoid of any sense of urgency.

“When I say Charlie Kaufman should be put on suicide watch, I’m not being facetious.