The assassination of John F. Kennedy changed the course of history. To this date, circumstances surrounding the event remain a mystery. Robert Stone’s probing documentary looks into the facts, and attempts to answer the hard question: Was Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone? Read more>>

The images are iconic. Dealey Plaza. The Texas School Book Depository. Jackie’s pink suit. The grainy film shot by Abraham Zapruder, showing John Kennedy’s head falling back, back, and back again. And yet, as familiar as the pictures may be, the story they tell—the story of John Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas—remains unclear. Read more

Jenkins scored two of America’s best actors to embody her cantankerous savages: Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Much to her credit, she also penned many excellent jokes: my favorite moment happens when older brother Jon (Hoffman) attempts to calm down little sister Wendy (Linney): “We’re not in a Sam Shepherd play.” Read more

Movie trailers often boast the “triumph of the human spirit,” but in this case, it’s true: the story is extraordinary. Read more

Friends threatened bodily harm when I mentioned I was on my way to see The Savages, Tamara Jenkins’ look at adult children trying to deal with their ailing father’s impending death. Having just survived a similar story myself, they said, was enough. Frankly, I tended to agree with them. And then I saw the movie. Read more

Estranged siblings are forced to deal with their even more estranged father’s descent into age-related dementia in Tamara Jenkins’ braceingly unsentimental, bitter(sweet) drama about fractured family values. Read more

For those of us who have dealt or are dealing with angry, aging parents and grandparents, this dysfunctional family serio-comedy hits home. Read more

The movie follows the outline of Bauby’s memoir, not only recounting his former, super-glam playboy life, but also reckoning with his current condition, asserting a self without speech or gesture—save for his left eye, whose blinking is his only means of communication.Read more

When Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of Elle France magazine, suffered a stroke at age 43, he was left almost entirely paralyzed, yet he dictated a best-selling memoir, communicating with his caregivers by blinking his left eyelid. Read more

Entertainment Weekly’s 50 Smartest People in Hollywood list includes thirteen women: Read more