Paul Schneider

A decades-spanning musical drama about a mother and daughter, "Beloved" is both broody and bright, steeped in amour in all its Gallic permutations: mad, destined, unrequited, sustaining. In the central roles, real-life mother and daughter Catherine...

When you make a cult favorite comedy like Broken Lizard’s “Super Troopers,” it’s probably inevitable that you’ll get out of a speeding ticket or two. “[Co-star Steve Lemme] was going like 120 miles an hour, and the cop...

** (out of four) Obvious statement of the day: Dumb criminals are funny. Once the ordinary Joes in “The Babymakers” become dumb criminals—in service of robbing a sperm bank—the movie transforms from a low-impact comedy with too...

"The Cabin In The Woods" and "The Babymakers" premiere on the opening night of the 2012 South By Southwest Film Festival...

CAPTAIN AMERICAN: THE FIRST AVENGER (2011) * *1/2 (B-) Directed by Joe Johnston Starring Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci, Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Toby Jones, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, Ken Choi, Samuel L....

Kids and other Robert Pattinson fans won't be running off to join the circus after seeing “Water for Elephants,” the brutish and violent  screen adaptation of Sara Gruen's novel. Whatever romance and charm Gruen summoned forth from these rough...

What's the difference between a failure and a fiasco? That's the first question Orlando Bloom's character, Drew Baylor, asks himself in Cameron Crowe's "Elizabethtown," and the question he keeps asking throughout. It also echoes some of the critical...

Oh, ye of little faith, take heart. There is life after rejection from the Sundance Film Festival. Let David Gordon Green show you the way. "Sundance turned down 'George Washington,' though they won't admit to it anymore," the writer-director says of his...