With the Academy Awards coming up in the next few weeks, the entertainment world is abuzz with who deserves what. And because of this year's expanded best-picture category, there are even more actors and films to fawn over.
Unfortunately, along with Oscar nominations comes the usual pretentiousness—"If you haven't seen An Education, then you're missing out [...]

Be still, my horrified heart. We perhaps all knew it was coming, but now it's official: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences believes that Avatar was one of the best films of 2009. (Guess the "sciences" portion of the institution's name means more than the "arts" this year.)
Very, very few surprises among the [...]

A week dominated by death and destruction — some for your amusement, some to punch you in the gut.
The Messenger: Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster deliver outstanding performances as two soldiers assigned to the Army's casualty-notification service.
2012: At nearly two hours and 40 minutes, Roland Emmerich's disaster porn about the end of the world plays [...]