Peter Debruge

Every generation needs its own stir-crazy small-town movie. Set against the hardscrabble backdrop of northern Maine potato country, "Beneath the Harvest Sky" offers a heart-breakingly authentic, vividly realized account of...

To all those hung up on the idea of finding the perfect mate, "Benny & Joon" director Jeremiah Chechik's "The Right Kind of Wrong" suggests that compatible idiosyncrasies ultimately make...

Paul Haggis examines his own storytelling methods in "Third Person," an ambitious puzzle movie in which couples in three interlocking stories reveal different facets of a single psyche -- namely,...

"You Are Here" is Matthew Weiner's contribution to the modern man-child genre: a study of toxic selfishness presented at comedy that isn't nearly funny enough for a film starring Owen...

Any doubt that still exists in audiences' minds as to Matthew McConaughey's talents as an actor are permanently put to rest by "Dallas Buyers Club," in which the 6-foot Texan...

Any doubt that still exists in audiences' minds as to Matthew McConaughey's talents as an actor are permanently put to rest by "Dallas Buyers Club," in which the 6-foot Texan...

Variety has selected its 10 Actors to Watch list, unveiling a diverse group of thesps whom the publication's editors believe to be on the brink of big things. Profiles of...

Mozart vs. Salieri. Kennedy vs. Khrushchev. Gates vs. Jobs. Add to that list of epic clashes Formula 1 adversaries James Hunt and Niki Lauda, whose larger-than-life bout for the 1976...

So entertaining audiences hardly even realize how incendiary it is, "Tim's Vermeer" stirs up a flurry of scandal in the hallowed realm of art history. Obsessive inventor Tim Jenison has...

If you can't understand half of what the characters say in "Starred Up," not to worry. It's an artistic choice on the part of director David Mackenzie ("Young Adam"), who...