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‘Southern Accents’ pack the Mohawk

Inspired by a 1779 painting of two real-life cousins – one black, one white – Belle gives a fictionalized account of their lives.

The crude humor and cloying sentiment of Vince Vaughn's latest comedy make it a dud

Helen Mirren stars in this film that's part espionage thriller and part moral meditation, though the emphasis leans more toward the former than the latter.

Woody Allen is still making movies at the rate of at least one a year. The problem is that he doesn’t make good movies at the rate of one a year.

Derrickson’s film, based on a real event in which a priest was charged with negligent homicide because of a death that occurred during an exorcism, flirts with relevance and assorted hot-button topics but fails to amount to much more than an overlong exercise in Jesuit Theosophy 101, played against the backdrop of Law & Order.

It's flighty, improbable stuff, meant not to be a historical restorative but a modern romantic tribute to the scribe whose words have launched a million sonnets.

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

Nicholas Sparks' romantic yearnings once again flood our screens

Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan is here set among Jazz Age expatriates cold-chillin' on the Italian coast, and the result is not quite as dishy as one might hope.

'TV Eye' scratches its head over the Golden Globe nominees

For better or worse, Oliver Parker's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's comedy of mistaken identities liberates the play from its drawing-room trappings.

Julian Fellowes is two for two: The English actor’s first big screenwriting credit, Gosford Park, netted him an Oscar, and with this directorial debut, he again demonstrates a mastery of British uppercrust dramas.

This fourth entry in the Tom Cruise film franchise is the best of the bunch; it's wacky and keen to please.

Holocaust courtroom drama parallels contemporary issues

Oliver Stone tackles the famous whistleblower

Can the power of faith change the course of history?

Although it's dramatically uneven, this film is a commendable historical drama about Martin Luther King Jr. that sidesteps the common pitfalls of adulatory biopics.

The Lone Ranger is a Western without a compass.

Robert Redford directs this historical movie about the trial of Mary Surratt, who was convicted of conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.

Julia Roberts and Clive Owen star in this new thriller about schemers and double-dealers.

This smart and thoroughly entertaining film asks the question of where a lawyer’s ethical responsibility to zealously represent a client ends and the societal interest in achieving justice begins.

You could say Paul Haggis' The Last Kiss is something of a Garden State redux, but Zach Braff's character here is less fanciful, less melodramatic, and far more prone to doing the thoughtless things men tend to do.

Love is never having to say "I erased you."

This extravagant adaptation of the monster-hit musical is a little pitchy, but it's still a potent piece of cinema.

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