American History X is an in-depth, often-brutal look at a white supremacist subculture in southern California. Danny Vinyard, a high-school student, is asked to…

Having grown up with a cold mother and an emotionally absent father, Amélie, a young Parisian woman with a great capacity for love, has…

Cliff Stern (Woody Allen) is an idealist filmmaker… until he’s offered a lucrative job shooting a flattering profile of a pompous TV producer (Alan…

Mr. Holland’s Opus has much to tell us, but in its rush to do so it sets up shop awkwardly: Roadweary musician Glen Holland…

There is plenty about Signs we’d love to mention in this review, but won’t because that would ruin it if you haven’t seen it…

Aboard the S.S. Venture, a young sailor looks up from his reading and asks the first mate, “It isn't an adventure story, is it,…

One day, several lives, a lot of pain, and one thing connecting them all. Are they connected by their misery, by chance, by blood,…

Not so long ago I was speaking to university students from throughout Indiana. After one session an undergraduate from Purdue came up to talk.…

One of the more delightful parts of my work as a campus minister at the University of Texas at Austin is watching films with…

Knowing my interest in the whys and wherefores of learning, a good friend sent me an essay last summer by the agrarian philosopher Wendell…