Nine is splashy but not always persuasive, with a lot of Hollywood razzle-dazzle dredged up to camouflage the rather second-tier score of this... More >>

TV icon Sharon Gless is de-glammed but not devalued in Hannah Free, a film "about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the... More >>

Multitasking French movie icon Isabelle Huppert just swept into town to appear in Robert Wilson's production of Quartett at BAM and to promote... More >>

Last week's happy hoopla had Levi Johnston—the whistle-blowing ex of Sarah Palin's teen-mama daughter—sweeping into town to take his... More >>

There is nothing more boring, self-aggrandizing, and sad than when columnists take pains to remind you, "You read it here first" about some... More >>

An accomplished star of multiple media, Bronx-born Kerry Washington is making her Broadway debut as a lawyer in David Mamet's buzzy play Race,... More >>

Tall, dry Jane Lynch rose to notoriety by quietly stealing a variety of Christopher Guest films while wittily pickpocketing some other people's... More >>

Bust out of that suburban cineplex, wipe the Goobers from your mouth, and go see The Maid (La Nana), a really absorbing Chilean character study... More >>

Precious comes at you like the TV set that Mo'Nique hurls down the staircase at a high point in the film. Avoiding the "After-School Special... More >>

Despite the seeming contradiction of the term "casino culture," Atlantic City has long overflowed with everything I've ever needed, from... More >>