Guy Lodge

Irish author John Banville expressed lofty surprise when his dense, defiantly nonlinear novel "The Sea" won the 2005 Booker Prize, claiming in an interview that the award usually goes to...

"Cryptic" could be a go-to word for critics describing "Mister John," the quietly impressive sophomore feature from Irish husband-and-wife team Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy, but it's ultimately the film's...

If Michael Haneke had a slightly less ironic appreciation of the term "funny games," he might have cooked up something a little like "Borgman," a sly, insidious and intermittently hilarious...

Oscar Wilde is uncharacteristically muffled in "The Selfish Giant," an abstruse contempo interpretation of Wilde's Christian fairy tale, but writer-helmer Clio Barnard's voice comes through loud and clear. A jaggedly...

For the second year running, none of this year's animated feature nominees scored nominations in any other category. That might suggest the Academy has cooled on the medium after the...

As an open-hearted, even sentimental tale of a working-class woman making the most selfless of sacrifices to give her husband a child, it's tempting to call "Thy Womb" the gentlest...

As an open-hearted, even sentimental tale of a working-class woman making the most selfless of sacrifices to give her husband a child, it's tempting to call "Thy Womb" the gentlest...

"Oops! ... I Did It Again" isn't one of two Britney Spears hits performed onscreen in "Spring Breakers," but that song's self-aware spirit of coy misbehavior is stamped all over...

"Oops! ... I Did It Again" isn't one of two Britney Spears hits performed onscreen in "Spring Breakers," but that song's self-aware spirit of coy misbehavior is stamped all over...

"Thriller" may be the biggest-selling album of all time, but 1987's follow-up, "Bad," represents Michael Jackson's career peak as pop's master craftsman. A blockbuster melange of Motown, metal, hip-hop, world...