Justin Chang

"You're aberrated. You've wandered from the proper path, haven't you? These problems you have â? you seem so familiar to me." These words were spoken by Philip Seymour Hoffman in...

Welcome to our Sundance Film Festival Awards live blog with up-to-the-minute winners and commentary from Variety's chief film critics Justin Chang and Scott Foundas. The grand jury prize for U.S....

The difficulties of helping one's fellow man in post-recession America are scrutinized with heartrending intimacy in "The Overnighters," director Jesse Moss' powerful documentary portrait of a North Dakota town that...

With its blissfully crude setup and ferociously inventive fight sequences, Gareth Evans' "The Raid: Redemption" (2011) was an exhilarating, exhausting treat for those who like to take their genre poison...

In his documentaries "My Kid Could Paint That" and "The Tillman Story," Amir Bar-Lev zeroed in on the difference between the public perception of a scandal and the private truth...

Intelligence is both the subject and the approach of Anton Corbijn's "A Most Wanted Man," a meticulously plotted, steadily absorbing Hamburg-set drama that casts a cynical yet compassionate eye on...

Intimate yet expansive, clear-eyed yet deeply personal, "Infinitely Polar Bear" marks an irresistible feature debut for writer-director Maya Forbes. Drawing on a tough but rewarding chapter of her own childhood,...

In a last-minute but high-profile addition to its 30th annual slate, the Sundance Film Festival has announced that Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" will receive special preview screenings at the upcoming event,...

At once accessibly humanist and endearingly nerdy, suffused with a deep love of language and a quiet awe at the possibilities of human collaboration, "The Great Passage" tells a gently...

(SPOILER ALERT: This piece reveals key details about the plot of "Prisoners.") Why is it so often the ambiguous, unresolved movie that generates controversy while the easy, complacent one gets...