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As "The Nanny Diaries" wobbles along uncertainly, it rests on the tense, squared shoulders of Laura Linney.
In “Rabbit Hole” Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart play grieving parents whose 4-year-old son has died.
Julie Taymor brings her theatrical exuberance to a new film version of “The Tempest.”
“Made in Dagenham” is a feminist fairy tale based on actual events whose heroine, a composite of real-life women, leads Ford workers in the battle for equal pay.
With “For Colored Girls” Tyler Perry works very hard and gets it mostly right.
"My Soul to Take" has the comic pop-culture references and dreamy shocks of a Wes Craven film, but the director's heart does not seem to be into it.
“You Again,” with Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis, is a misogynistic revenge comedy.
“Jack Goes Boating” tells the story of a bland livery-car driver who wants a better life.
The documentary "Broadway Idiot" observes the metamorphosis of "American Idiot" from record to stage show, and of Billie Joe Armstrong from rock star to stage actor.
Adapted by Julian Fellowes of "Downton Abbey" fame, "Romeo & Juliet," starring Hailee Steinfeld, won't sound all that familiar to students of Shakespeare's text.
"Four," based on Christopher Shinn's play, chronicles the assignations of two secretive for-a-night couples.
Joss Whedon's adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing" draws out the essential screwball nature of Shakespeare's comedy.
"How Sweet It Is," an ode to the healing powers of musical theater, centers on a washed-up, alcoholic Broadway producer and a Mafia don to whom he owes money.
"One Night Stand" is a documentary about casting, rehearsing and performing a musical, all in 24 hours.
Cindy Kleine's gripping documentary about her husband, the theater director André Gregory, feels almost like a sequel to "My Dinner With André."
Cindy Kleine's gripping documentary about her husband, the theater director André Gregory, feels almost like a sequel to "My Dinner With André."
Christopher Plummer reprises his stage role in "Barrymore," about a hypothetical John Barrymore comeback.
In Lisa Albright's turgid family drama, Bernadette Peters plays a faded Broadway diva with two daughters who starts life over in a rented, graffiti-scarred shack in Nashua, N.H.
In "The Understudy" a young Off Broadway actress commits an accidental sort of homicide that keeps putting her onstage in the star's place.
Various issues unfold for a family of actors in "Just 45 Minutes From Broadway," a film adaptation of the Henry Jaglom play.
Various issues unfold for a family of actors in "Just 45 Minutes From Broadway," a film adaptation of the Henry Jaglom play.
"Bachelorette," the film version of Leslye Headland's play, comes at you with the crackling intensity of machine-gun fire.
"Bachelorette," the film version of Leslye Headland's play, comes at you with the crackling intensity of machine-gun fire.
It says something about William Friedkin's big-screen adaptation of the Tracy Letts play "Killer Joe" that the title psycho, played by Matthew McConaughey, is, by a long Texas mile, its leas…
"Ruby Sparks," written by and starring Zoe Kazan, is a variation of the Pygmalion myth, featuring Paul Dano as a struggling novelist.
