Justin Chang

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...

"Passion" is an eye-candy parade of kinky couplings, slashed bodies, voyeuristic thrills, Hitchcockian allusions and Sapphic overtones -- which is to say, it's a new picture by Brian De Palma....

"Passion" is an eye-candy parade of kinky couplings, slashed bodies, voyeuristic thrills, Hitchcockian allusions and Sapphic overtones -- which is to say, it's a new picture by Brian De Palma....

Made with the bittersweet clarity of hindsight and the assurance of a director in peak form, "Something in the Air" is Olivier Assayas' wise and wistful memory-piece on the revolutionary...

Made with the bittersweet clarity of hindsight and the assurance of a director in peak form, "Something in the Air" is Olivier Assayas' wise and wistful memory-piece on the revolutionary...

The brutal recent history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is rivetingly recounted by some of its most prominent players in "The Gatekeepers." Granted an extraordinary level of access to six former...

The brutal recent history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is rivetingly recounted by some of its most prominent players in "The Gatekeepers." Granted an extraordinary level of access to six former...

Mohsin Hamid's slender, gemlike novel about a young Pakistani man's post-9/11 identity crisis receives illuminating but heavy-handed screen treatment in "The Reluctant Fundamentalist." Despite a fine central performance by Riz...

Mohsin Hamid's slender, gemlike novel about a young Pakistani man's post-9/11 identity crisis receives illuminating but heavy-handed screen treatment in "The Reluctant Fundamentalist." Despite a fine central performance by Riz...

A moderately involving, conventionally structured look at the art of public speaking as practiced by nine finalists at the Toastmasters' 2008 world championship, "Speak" has surprisingly little to say about...