John Madden (director)

** (out of four) Shame on 2-star movies for the indifference they cause. For the mild successes that quickly fade and for the flaws that could have been avoided with a simple change of procedure. For the fact that bad movies stir up some impassioned...

“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”: British actress Judi Dench rarely makes a wrong move with any role she's given, and the same is true here, writes Los Angeles Times film critic Betsy Sharkey....

In the dramatic thriller The Debt, Oscar winner Helen Mirren plays Rachel Singer, a former Mossad agent who discovers that a notorious Nazi war criminal she had helped hunt down and kill 30 years earlier may still be alive. Needing to know the truth,...

"The Debt," starring Jessica Chastain and Sam Worthington, was voted the most under-appreciated movie of 2011...

“The Debt” is the first movie in which Hollywood “It” actor Sam Worthington gets around to showing us what all the fuss was about, pre-”Terminator,” pre-”Avatar” and pre-”Clash of the Titans.” As...

The decades when August was just a dumping ground for movies the studios didn't figure were a big enough deal to warrant a real summer release and not really worth a push in the fall, either weren't permanently upended by “The Constant Gardener,&#...

Happy to see that “The Debt,” the last decent wide release of the summer, is having a good weekend for a thriller that skews a bit older and smarter than the norm. John Madden's remake of the Israeli hit about aged Mossad agents (Helen Mirren,...

Walt Disney Studios has told the producers of its Miramax movies "The Debt" and "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" that it won't be releasing the films because of the pending sale of the specialty division. The two pictures are......

I'm sure John Madden was just as surprised as the rest of us when after spending nearly two decades as a TV director in England he catapulted to Hollywood fame and fortune in 1998 with "Shakespeare in Love," which won......

THEATER REVIEW: "Ethan Frome" ★★½ Through April 17 at the Lookingglass Theatre in Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave.; Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes; Tickets: $20-$62 at 312-337-0665 or www.lookingglasstheatre.org Like the hapless...

Under its new chief executive Michael Lang, Miramax Films will initially seek to acquire completed films and eventually buy movie libraries. In an interview Thursday soon after he was officially named CEO of the specialty film studio, Lang said that......