“The reasons we go to war always matter,” says the soldier played by Matt Damon [...]

Burton’s film looks but doesn’t feel like “Alice”

Is Clint Eastwood really a great director?

Plenty of blood and guts, but little heart

Travolta’s new action flick is dumb, junky fun

Gibson wants revenge, again, in Edge of Darkness

Legion is both ridiculous and thoroughly grim

“The Book of Eli” is a stark, well-acted apocalypse film

Seemingly cursed director creates uneven but dazzling film

Critic shares the rest of his favorite films

Critic Carey Norris bravely faces list-making anxiety

Wes Anderson’s has crafted an excellent adaptation, one painstaking frame at a time.

2012 may be the hugest, craziest, most preposterous disaster film ever made

Paranormal Activity builds scares out of shadows, loud noises and anticipation.

Spike Jonze’s WTWTA may be the most honest film ever made about the wildness of childhood.

Couples Retreat is as bland and predictable as a bad marriage.

Zombieland is not a parody of or a post-modern commentary on the zombie genre — like, say, Shaun of the Dead — but it is still a total blast.

With nine venues located within Birmingham’s historic Theatre District (featuring the newly restored Alabama Theatre, a 2,200 seat movie palace built by Paramount in 1927), spontaneity and variety rule at Sidewalk.

So Long Are You Young: Samuel Ullman’s Poem and Passion • Sunday • 12:45 p.m. [...]

Official Rejection • Saturday • 1:30 p.m. • Carver Theatre
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