Justin Chang

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...

Few blockbusters have borne so heavy a burden of audience expectation as Christopher Nolan's final Batman caper, and the filmmaker steps up to the occasion with a cataclysmic vision of...

Few blockbusters have borne so heavy a burden of audience expectation as Christopher Nolan's final Batman caper, and the filmmaker steps up to the occasion with a cataclysmic vision of...

Lasting scars of the Holocaust become totems of resilience and remembrance in "Numbered," a moving compilation of testimonies from Auschwitz survivors whose tattoos serve as perpetual reminders of their imprisonment...

Lasting scars of the Holocaust become totems of resilience and remembrance in "Numbered," a moving compilation of testimonies from Auschwitz survivors whose tattoos serve as perpetual reminders of their imprisonment...

The word becomes flesh in "Ruby Sparks," an engaging if only fitfully realized fantasy about a novelist who falls so desperately in love with his latest character that he wills...

The word becomes flesh in "Ruby Sparks," an engaging if only fitfully realized fantasy about a novelist who falls so desperately in love with his latest character that he wills...

A mission to uncover the origins of human life yields familiar images of death and devastation in "Prometheus." Elaborately conceived from a visual standpoint, Ridley Scott's first sci-fier in the...

A mission to uncover the origins of human life yields familiar images of death and devastation in "Prometheus." Elaborately conceived from a visual standpoint, Ridley Scott's first sci-fier in the...

An eerily precise match of filmmaker and material, "Cosmopolis" probes the soullessness of the 1% with the cinematic equivalent of latex gloves. Applying his icy intelligence to Don DeLillo's prescient...