I have the best job in the world. I work with the smartest, most supportive colleagues you can imagine. So it is hard, very hard, to leave a place that pays me to see movies such as Jerry Maguire; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; and The Social Network. Harder still to leave coworkers who are the most intellectually and emotionally engaged individuals I’ve ever met - and human thesauruses to boot. Read more>>

Disney’s mash-up of The Champ and a “Twilight Zone” episode (with Hugh Jackman in for Lee Marvin) is a pessimistic parable about the American economy — with rock’em sock’em robots. Read more>>

This documentary profile of boxing world champions, brothers Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko, doesn’t pull any punches. It’s brutal. But, if you’re keen on seeing their prowess in and out of the ring, this film will satisfy you. If you want to understand them, you’ll need more. Read more>>

Most Americans think of Penny Marshall as Laverne DeFazio, the title character of the popular TV show Laverne and Shirley. I think of her as the first female director to make movies (Big, A League of Their Own) that grossed over $100 million. Read more

Jim Sheridan’s thriller shifts midway from half-hearted haunted-house chills to sub-Hitchcock mind games, but at least Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz’s chemistry offers tabloid thrills. Read more>>

According to legend, bank robbers Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were killed in a skirmish with the Bolivian military in 1908. But what if they’d survived? Read more

Is there a movie trendlet of classic stories where the sidekick is promoted to central figure? Read more>>

Neither a sequel nor a remake, it’s a prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 horror thriller based on Howard Hawks’ 1951 “The Thing From Another World” which, in turn, was inspired by John W. Campbell Jr.’s short story “Who Goes There?” Read more

Gus Van Sant’s latest, oh so twee and sharply attired, may be best appreciated by 12-year-old girls who have never seen Harold and Maude. Read more>>

Filmmaker Alma Har’el explores the outer and inner realities of the residents of Bombay Beach, an impoverished community on the shore of the Salton Sea, California’s largest lake. Read more>>