War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.

We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads.

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call it a movie) that I have ever seen. He thought it was better than Finding Nemo and we had a fruitless argument which I'm sure made him acutely aware of the disadvantages of having a film critic for a dad.

Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.

I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?