Peter Debruge

A painful retelling of the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President Kennedy in which the two least important players seem to be JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald, "Parkland" dramatizes the...

Devoid of color and mirth alike, Pawel Pawlikowski's severe "Ida" is just the sort of joyless art film one might expect Polish nuns living under the clutches of 1960s communism...

"Natan" elaborates on a footnote in French film history, offering a one-hour documentary portrait as a sort of substitute for a man completely forgotten -- or worse, unflatteringly misremembered --...

From "Back to the Future" to "Star Wars," scour the most iconic hand-painted movie posters of the past half-century, and you're likely to find Drew Struzan's lower-case signature tastefully affixed...

Summit desperately needed a new trailer for "Ender's Game," since the distribbery is looking to the sci-fi kid-lit franchise to take "Twilight's" place, but the first trailer, released in May,...

Three years after his last underwhelming adventure, the half-blood son of Poseidon returns to bastardize Greek mythology once again in "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters," an epic showcase for mediocre...

The most depressing (and difficult) part of a trade critic's job is predicting how any given film will fare at the box office. How often have you read a Variety...

Variety has been spotlighting up-and-coming comics for more than a decade, shining early lights on everyone from Louis C.K. to Patton Oswald, Zach Galifianakis, Aziz Ansari and Aubrey Plaza. This...

From the outside, Illumination Entertainment's Santa Monica headquarters looks like any generic Los Angeles Westside warehouse, its nondescript brick exterior easily overshadowed by the graffiti-painted building next door. Inside, however,...

Variety has been spotlighting up-and-coming comics for more than a decade, shining early lights on everyone from Louis C.K. to Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, Aziz Ansari and Aubrey Plaza. This...