Watch enough movies and the temptation will arise to revile everything that appears crass, commercial, big, and dumb-especially the typical summer blockbuster.
Andrew Coffin | James Mangold is a talented director seemingly at home in any genre.
Andrew Coffin | Nowhere in Africa (unrated) is a German film that won this year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Hollywood typically defends its entertainment offerings by saying that it is simply giving the audience what it wants
Phone Booth (rated R for pervasive bad language and some violence) has an intriguing premise
Hollywood shows its wartime insecurities during a low-rated Academy Awards event
Bruce Willis's new action movie implies certain ideas that make liberal critics queasy
The Hours offers a bitter, venomous form of nihilism that goes beyond simple feminism
NBC's "controversial" new drama reaches for new lows as it aspires to copy cable's hit series on the underworld
