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The outstanding sixth television season of Matt Groening’s ingenious animated show "The Simpsons" is organized in an eye-popping box set…

If slick car chases around the south of France with an international cast of characters is your bag, then the…

Thailand martial arts phenomenon Tony Jaa emerges as the new Jackie Chan in a refreshingly fast and funny super action…

Matt Groening’s now-defunct adult-tempered animated comedy "Futurama" doesn’t come near the level of comic coherence as his more popular animated…

Bold and bracing documentary about Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan’s most controversial and successful photographers, captures the artist’s possessive and…

The 1977 sixth and final season of "Sanford And Son" is a consummate example of why the ’70s were the…

You can tell during an early scene of tiresome voice-over exposition by Anthony Hopkins that Oliver Stone’s three-hour sword-and-sandal epic…

The Upside Of AngerAbandonment is in the eye of the guilt-ridden alcoholic wife (Joan Allen) after her husband ostensibly disappears…

Blues rock guitar player Robben Ford shows why he is a musician’s musician in an energetic live set of a…

This rough and rugged documentary is the kind of inside look at the reality of the U.S. occupation of Iraq…

Although Spike Lee has long since lost his touch for making socially relevant original movies, there was a time when…

A suburban family goes into a dysfunctional freefall when a suicide creates a vacuum that its remaining members can barely…

Robert Altman’s inspired cinematic adaptation of Raymond Carver’s short stories is a poetically charged contemplation of lust, adultery and luck…

From Jean-Pierre Jeunet -"Amelie") comes a fiercely anti-war movie wrapped in an epic love story. Audrey Tautou (pronounced toe-too) is…

Keanu Reeves plays the chain-smoking post-modern exorcist John Constantine, of the DC Comics "Hellblazer" graphic novels, in an overlong movie…

Jean-Pierre Leaud ("The 400 Blows") gives a thoughtful performance as Jacques Laurent an aging formerly successful pornographer coming to grips…

Clint Eastwood extends his oeuvre of dark dramas with an ill-titled but satisfying film about an aging, nearly washed-up, boxing…

The supremely understated Emily Mortimer ("Notting Hill") plays a single mother who must constantly change her address in order to…

Documentarian Ross McElwee ("Sherman’s March") takes a journey through his native North Carolina’s history of tobacco production and its deadly…

"Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure" (1989) and "Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey" (1991) comprise the pair of goofy cult classic…