August Diehl

Salt is a Hollywood stuntman (and stunt woman) stimulus package, an espionage thriller filled with epic brawls, shootouts and a chase across the roofs of assorted semi trucks and tankers along the highway interchanges of Greater Washington, D.C. What, you...

"Salt" is a Hollywood stuntman (and stunt woman) stimulus package, an espionage thriller filled with epic brawls, shootouts and a chase across the roofs of assorted semi trucks and tankers along the highway interchanges of Greater Washington, D.C. What,...

"Salt" the film and Evelyn Salt the character are perpetually in motion and that's a good thing for its own sake and because it keeps audiences from dwelling on how unapologetically preposterous the plot in question is. And really, who goes to summer...

Volker Schlöndorff's "The Ninth Day," an engrossing film from the director of "The Tin Drum," takes the viewer into an all-too-familiar world of the hell on Earth of Dachau — but with a difference. The grim setting is the so-called Priests' Block,...

The ersatz-grunge look of "Love the Hard Way" almost makes this independent film worth a peek, but it's likely that most eyes will be fixed on Adrien Brody parading about in his knickers. Shot before "The Pianist," the modestly mounted feature gives the...

Robert Schwentke's sleek, chilling "Tattoo" lets us know from its opening shot of a young woman running naked along dark Berlin streets, blood streaming down her back, that we're in for strong stuff. The film is an engrossing and original police...