Srtaff Reports

'Extraordinary Measures' ** From screenwriter to leading actors to customers out on a Friday night at the multiplex, nobody commits lightly or cynically to a movie such as "Extraordinary Measures."...

'Gigante' ***1/2 I don't know if Adrian Biniez ever wrote a song about a stalker when he was with the Argentine band Reverb, but that's how Biniez's first feature-length film...

ABC's "The Deep End" is being touted as a new "Grey's Anatomy" for lawyers, and frankly I think "Grey's" creator Shonda Rhimes should sue. Not for plagiarism but defamation. Or...

The Sundance Film Festival, which sets up shop Thursday in Park City, Utah, is more than a festival; it's a delicate balancing act. Sundance is eternally caught between commerce and...

One wrote a love story that left "Romeo and Juliet" in the dust, a book that added a new catchphrase to the culture: "Love means never having to say you're...

Spoon, 'Transference' **1/2 (out of 4) In 2007, Spoon released its most expansive and easy-to-love album, "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga." Embracing ebullient horns and instantly catchy melodies, the Austin,...

'The Lovely Bones' ** Many people, including two of my supervisors, have told me they find Peter Jackson's film version of "The Lovely Bones" a gut-wrenching and valuable experience, which...

'The Spy Next Door' *1/2 On the ground or twirling in a stunt harness above it, Jackie Chan brings an air of determined good cheer to even the most metallic...

'The Book of Eli' *** I used to think the apocalypse was so "tomorrow." Lately at the movies, though, what with "Zombieland" and "2012" and "The Road" and "Daybreakers," the...

'The White Ribbon' ***1/2 Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke once cited Roberto Rossellini's "Germany Year Zero" (1948), shot in postwar Berlin, as a key influence on his cinematic thinking. The devastating...