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Jun 11, 2008
HBO’s nine-hour supplement to David McCullough’s epic biography views the major events of the late 18th century from an unusual vantage.
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Nov 28, 2007
Terrence Malick's pet theme of innocence lost gets a stunning workout in his 1976 masterpiece about laborers on a West Texas ranch.
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Oct 12, 2007
A historically rich period in Queen Elizabeth I's life becomes fodder for an unnecessary sequel.
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Sep 27, 2007
Ang Lee's disappointing follow-up to Brokeback Mountain is loaded with sex, but lacking in sensuality.
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Sep 20, 2007
Michael Pitt brings his anachronistic drugged-out pretty boy routine to the role of a 19th century adventurer seeking silkworms in China.
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Aug 27, 2007
Mormon officials are up in arms about this depiction of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, with good reason.
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Aug 02, 2007
Jane Austen's life story never quite reached the bliss of her independent-minded protagonists. Until now.
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Jul 26, 2007
The latest from writer-director Shane Meadows perfectly evokes the Midlands during a particularly turbulent year in the Thatcher era.
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Jul 20, 2007
After a seven-year hiatus, director Milos Forman returns with this drama about the Spanish painter's tangle with the Inquisition. Sort of.
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Jun 21, 2007
No, not Sylvia Kristel, but a hoped-for return to legitimacy for the D.H. Lawrence classic.