Peter Debruge

Perhaps it's appropriate that the director of "The Immigrant" has achieved more fame overseas than on his own shores. In France, James Gray is practically a household name. Though he...

Some artists spend their entire lives trying to create work special enough to be displayed in a museum. Mark Landis has discovered a shortcut: By copying existing paintings and then...

Imagine going into "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" completely blind. For those lucky audiences, Electro is probably the least shocking thing about the webslinger sequel. (Spoiler alert!) Imagine their surprise when...

Shot on a Red digital camera but clearly intended as a silver-nitrate noir, Noah Buschel's "Glass Chin" is a throwback to an earlier era. Set in the world of broken...

Aspiring novelist Brian Bloom (Anton Yelchin) receives nothing but rejection letters from publishers, but when it comes to romance, he has considerably better luck, earning coy encouragement from Arielle (Berenice...

With "The Dark Knight Rises," audiences never got a good look at Tom Hardy's face. In "Locke," that's practically all they see. A tight, tense one-man show that unfolds virtually...

For anyone who's ever wondered whether "the right one" might be somewhere out there waiting for you, Joss Whedon has the answer in the form of a supernatural soap opera...

In "Boulevard," a middle-aged married man picks up a gay hustler on the Nashville street where hookers hang out, pays the kid for company instead of sex, and ever-so-gradually begins...

Directors: Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math Opening date: April 18 (limited) Why it matters: This simultaneously sidesplitting and taboo-bending documentary follows Icelandic Phallological Museum curator Siggi Hjartarson's quest to complete...

You don't have to go back very far in Variety's history to discover that its film critics once had a very different job description -- one that involved reviewing not...