Chasing the American Dream is a theme so pervasive in US cinema – and often beyond – that it scarcely seems like a theme at all: it's the principle upon which much Hollywood storytelling is built, after al...
Ramin Bahrani's robust farmland drama "At Any Price" has been splitting the critics since its premiere at last year's Venice Film Festival, where it was greeted with scattered boos: some admire its command o...
I'm a huge fan of Ramin Bahrani. Films like "Man Push Cart," "Chop Shop" and "Goodbye, Solo," to me, announced a vital new voice in American independent filmmaking. And when Guy caught an...
VENICE - "God, that was a lot of America," I heard an Italian critic remark to his companion as they slouched out of "At Any Price" at the Venice Film Festival earlier this evening. His tone did no...
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Keira Knightley, Aaron Johnson, Jude Law, Kelly Macdonald, Olivia Williams
Screening at: Toronto
Why: Knightley and Wright reunite for the third time after the critically acclaimed co...
2012 has been a year of major transition for Zac Efron. The former "High School Musical" and "17" again star has found his way-out of teen-themed flicks into more mature fare. It began at the Sunda...
The Venice Film Festival unveiled its lineup this afternoon, and it looks much as we expected it would -- but lest we sound too blasé, who would ever have thought a few years ago that we'd see Terrence Malick d...
Directed by: Ben Affleck, USA World Premiere
When militants storm the U.S. embassy in 1979 Tehran, six Americans manage to slip away. Knowing it’s only a matter of time before they are found, a CIA “exfil...
