Justin Chang

A fiendishly inventive thriller built around an audacious if unsustainable gimmick, "Open Windows" elevates Hitchcockian suspense to jittery new levels of mayhem and paranoia. Essentially conceived as a technologically sophisticated...

The story may have been ripped from personal experience, but moments of truth -- or, for that matter, hilarity -- are few and far between in "We'll Never Have Paris,"...

Sporting a title that can't help but smack of wishful thinking, "Muppets Most Wanted" casts Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and company in a hokey transcontinental caper that conspicuously lacks...

There's a recurring map graphic in "The Great Invisible" that charts the staggering impact of the 2010 BP oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico and its bordering states, an...

The central paradox of so much recent technology -- why do devices meant to enable human communication wind up hindering it? -- is sensitively and movingly explored within the context...

A technology that promises (some would say threatens) to permanently transform our lives and businesses gets compelling behind-the-scenes treatment in "Print the Legend," Luis Lopez and Clay Tweel's skillful overview...

Classic mystery conventions have provided fertile creative ground for any number of young American filmmakers in recent years, as evidenced by Rian Johnson's "Brick," Aaron Katz's "Cold Weather" and now...

With Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" and Ridley Scott's "Exodus" preparing to duke it out for Old Testament auteur supremacy, Hollywood's religious renaissance gets off to a none-too-spectacular start with a chewed-over...

BEST ACTRESS JUSTIN CHANG: Scott, I know it will come as little surprise to you that when Peter Debruge and I sat down to discuss this year's Oscar nominees for...