Justin Chang

A clever concept becomes an amiable endurance test over the perky course of "Goddess," a just-this-side-of-too-cheerful Aussie tuner. Though the pic did so-so biz during recent domestic release, the tale...

Peter Debruge: This is not a top-10 list There's a key scene in "The Master" in which Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic cult leader played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, reassures his...

Judd Apatow's instincts have rarely been sharper, wiser or more relatable than in "This Is 40," an acutely perceptive, emotionally generous laffer about the joys and frustrations of marriage and...

Judd Apatow's instincts have rarely been sharper, wiser or more relatable than in "This Is 40," an acutely perceptive, emotionally generous laffer about the joys and frustrations of marriage and...

A documentary about a fetish website and a speculative re-creation of gay S&M; footage cut from the 1980 film "Cruising," both featuring the involvement of James Franco, are among the...

A documentary about a fetish website and a speculative re-creation of gay S&M; footage cut from the 1980 film "Cruising," both featuring the involvement of James Franco, are among the...

Films devoted to exploring the myriad forms of human sexuality have an unusually prominent place in the 2013 Sundance program, festival director John Cooper noted as he unveiled the fest's...

The traditional tale of a boy and his dog gets charmingly warped treatment in "Frankenweenie," Tim Burton's latest spooky-fun exercise in animation and reanimation. A black-and-white stop-motion toon that pays...

The traditional tale of a boy and his dog gets charmingly warped treatment in "Frankenweenie," Tim Burton's latest spooky-fun exercise in animation and reanimation. A black-and-white stop-motion toon that pays...

The most harrowing disaster movie in many a moon, "The Impossible" marries a tremendous feat of physical filmmaking to an emotional true story of family survival. Cannily fusing spectacle and...