In the far future, the AI Oversee-R Karellen rules over humanity to give people the chance to live the happiest and most fulfilling life they can lead. That doesn’t mean, however, that everyone ...

Ellar Coltrane (age 9 left, age 17 right) grows up right before your eyes in "Boyhood." Matt Lankes/IFC Films (2) I’m always skeptical about films that emerge from the thin mountain air of the ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- What were you doing 12 years ago? The year was 2002. 'A Beautiful Mind' won Best Picture at the 74th Academy Awards. A reality singing competition called 'American Idol' altered ...

Your support goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership or give a one-time contribution, we’ll give a membership to someone who can’t afford access. It’s a simple way for you ...

A few years ago, I remember feeling lucky that I wasn’t one of the critics at the Cannes Film Festival who had to generate their opinions and analyses of “The Tree of Life” on a deadline. Some pieces ...

I don’t want to go all Holly Hunter in Broadcast News on you and bury the lede, so I’m just going to come out and say it: I peed next to John Lithgow. In a bathroom. It was at the New York Film ...

Losing the plot: Richard Linklater’s films are nontraditional but approachable. “I’m never trying to confuse anybody,” he says. The key decision Linklater makes for each of his films is what shape the ...

Life is just as spectacular as it is in the movies, but only very occasionally, and then mostly in hindsight. That's enough to make the rest of it worth living, and it's enough to inspire a body of ...

Summer is the season of mass destruction in Hollywood. A time of endless sweaty blockbusters, dripping special-effects and the threat of human extinction. What a treat to discover Boyhood among all ...