"We’d like to applaud the filmmakers for raising reading levels, in an industry where dumbing-down is the business model." Film critic John Anderson reviews 'Divergent.'

Is it blasphemous to say that the problem with “Noah” is the story? That it may not be substantial enough to float a star-driven, effects-laden, $125-million movie? Or that director Darren Aronofsky’s attempt to hang flesh, blood, human logic and nautical mechanics on a tale that b

The night before this review was being tortured into near-coherence a musical group called the Postal Service appeared on ldquo The Colbert Report rdquo promoting its new release ldquo Give Up rdquo mdash which was actually recorded 10 years earlier and was being re-released The history of

In many ways, we still live in an Adolf Hitler world. The Middle East is his legacy; so is the configuration of post-Soviet Eastern Europe. And while it may seem like a subordinate concern, his indiscriminate kleptomania and infinite bad taste continue to reverberate through the world of art.To get

The most important news photographer of the 20th century was a Russian-Jewish immigrant clothing manufacturer from Dallas, Tex., who almost left his camera home on the day his life went crazy. Abraham Zapruder, whose half-minute film has fueled a half-century of conspiracy theories, recorded a presi

John Anderson reviews “American Hustle,” nominated for best picture in the weekend's Academy Awards.

‘The Unbelievers’ follows two superstars of neo-atheism: Richard Dawkins and Larry Krauss.

John Anderson reviews “Dallas Buyers Club,” nominated for best picture in the weekend's Academy Awards.

The most important news photographer of the 20th century was a Russian-Jewish immigrant clothing manufacturer from Dallas, Texas, who almost left his camera home on the day his life went crazy. Abraham Zapruder, whose half-minute film has fueled a half century of conspiracy theories, recorded a pres

Joseph Gordon Levitt's 'Don Jon' is an Augustinian journey through cinematic excess.