Peter Debruge

The financial crisis left countless Americans economically devalued and emotionally demoralized, but only one was desperate enough to pick up an assault rifle and strike back. Dominic Purcell plays that...

Justin Chang: A masterful year at the movies Have you made your top-10 list yet? It's that time of the year when everyone from critics to casual Facebook acquaintances reorders...

Variety's senior film critics, Peter Debruge and Justin Chang, discuss the pleasures, challenges and awards season implications of this year's Toronto Film Festival. Peter Debruge: It was a good but...

Variety's senior film critics, Peter Debruge and Justin Chang, discuss the pleasures, challenges and awards season implications of this year's Toronto Film Festival. Peter Debruge: It was a good but...

A manipulative student (Ernst Umhauer) hooks his high school lit teacher (Fabrice Luchini) with a series of scandalous stories written for class in Francois Ozon's "In the House." More inspired...

An ebullient encore not only for its central foursome -- Tom Courtenay, Pauline Collins, Billy Connolly and Maggie Smith -- but also for the distinguished musicians who comprise the rest...

An ebullient encore not only for its central foursome -- Tom Courtenay, Pauline Collins, Billy Connolly and Maggie Smith -- but also for the distinguished musicians who comprise the rest...

A manipulative student (Ernst Umhauer) hooks his high school lit teacher (Fabrice Luchini) with a series of scandalous stories written for class in Francois Ozon's "In the House." More inspired...

Sony Pictures Animation brings nearly all cinema's classic monsters under one roof in "Hotel Transylvania," building a CG castle where Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman and the rest of the old-school ghouls...

At 149 minutes, Deepa Mehta's sprawling, hyper-saturated adaptation of the epic Salman Rushdie classic "Midnight's Children" feels like too much to take in all at once. Suspended somewhere between fable...