Spielberg's weighty take on vengeance is a tad lopsided

'The Real World' is no place for an artist like William Eggleston

Robert Bresson found the ineffable in the ordinary

Marcel Ophüls on the heroic idealists and cynical mollycoddles of wartime journalism

How I survived a long weekend with Liz and Sheryl

Novelist Rick Moody Feels His Pain. Yours? Not So Much.

David Cronenberg's 'History' repeats itself

Hollywood's trilogy of terror frightened the blockbuster into art

Once again, Luis Buñuel's time is now

HBO's 'Rome' is a clever mirror of modern class warfare

Al Gore's Current TV takes an earnest poke at news and culture

Boob tube news swings hard to the right

TV's dark comedies get their day in the sun

Jonathan Safran Foer, Wes Anderson, Conor Oberst, and the new male infantilism

It wasn't fun bringing up the rump of the avant-garde. B.S. Johnson felt compelled to do it anyway.

Filmmaker Agnès Varda reads a lot into her work

Park Chanwook's 'Oldboy' reinvents Jacobean drama for the 21st century

In 'Palindromes,' director Todd Solondz pushes envelopes that never should have been sent

'Head-On' plunges a mash note into the heart of punch-drunk love

What took octogenarian auteur Sidney Lumet so long to get an Oscar? He made too many movies.