Peter Debruge

It took until the age of 85, but director Agnes Varda is finally getting the recognition she deserves. The Belgian-born helmer unleashed a tiny tsunami several years before the French...

An LGBT movie for the "Glee" crowd (minus the musical numbers), "Geography Club" sports a clever concept but also a built-in marketing problem: A group of high schoolers choose the...

How differently people might remember the Alamo had there been a camera crew there to observe it. Talal Derki's "Return to Homs" represents a remarkable achievement in immersive conflict-zone filmmaking,...

Life brought David Gordon Green back to Texas, where the director shot his last three features -- "Prince Avalanche," "Joe" and the upcoming "Manglehorn," which stars Al Pacino as an...

If heaven is for humans only, then "Beyond Beyond" answers the mystery of where bunnies go instead, spinning a lavishly illustrated, yet hard-to-follow animated fable in which a lapine lad...

What a pleasant surprise to find a computer-animated kidpic without the constant chatter, in which the backgrounds aren't virtual but all-natural, and cute cartoon critters frolic against handsome outdoor footage...

PETER DEBRUGE: All is right with the universe. Not sure I felt this way going in, but as it turns out, the Oscar race was all about race. As Ellen...

In selecting its shortform nonfiction nominees this year, the Academy chose to celebrate directors who found a way to humanize heavy issues. While the underlying subjects range from hate crimes...

PETER DEBRUGE: OK, gentlemen, time to guess who will win the Oscar for best picture . I say "guess" because the word "predict" seems entirely too confident when it comes...

The Romans give you every reason to wish for their destruction in Paul W.S. Anderson's "Pompeii," a campy, concept-driven disaster pic that mistakes the eruption of Vesuvius for the biblical...