Justin Chang

"Groundhog Day" and "Starship Troopers" make surprisingly compatible bedfellows in "Edge of Tomorrow," a cleverly crafted and propulsively executed sci-fi thriller in which an untrained soldier must relive the same...

"I want this to be a picture of dignity -- a true canvas of the suffering of humanity!" So declared the comedy-director hero of Preston Sturges' classic "Sullivan's Travels," and...

Had Terrence Malick and David Lynch somehow conceived an artistic love-child together, only to see it get kidnapped, strangled and repeatedly kicked in the face by Nicolas Winding Refn, the...

In "Capote" and "Moneyball," Bennett Miller gazed into the souls of real-life American iconoclasts launching bold and unexpectedly costly new enterprises, a theme that the director has now taken to...

An event that could hardly be described as a laughing matter somehow yields a dryly amusing and characteristically layered reflection on the absurdity of what humans call love in "Amour...

Atom Egoyan's 14th feature tells a tale of lost children and grieving parents unfolding under wintry gray skies, but otherwise we're about as far removed from the mastery of "The...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan is at the peak of his powers with "Winter Sleep," a richly engrossing and ravishingly beautiful magnum opus that surely qualifies as the least boring 196-minute movie...

Variety critics talk the can't-miss pics at this year's Cannes Film Festival -- and attempt to do so in 140 characters or less. (Click image for large preview.) Related storiesCANNES:...

There are more credited producers than there are Munchkins in "Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return," a kid-friendly 3D toon musical that offers another joyless trip down the yellow-brick road after...

There's nothing wrong with "Moms' Night Out" that couldn't be fixed by a massive rewrite, preferably one that involves a lobotomy for the main character. Capturing the chaos that ensues...