"The King's Speech" is no musty historical drama

A “feel-good film” is the oddest of descriptions of a movie about human dismemberment. Yet in the case of "127 Hours," the cliché is apt.

The vacuous theology of Clint Eastwood's 'Hereafter'

Ultimately 'The Social Network' is not really about the founding of Facebook.

A teacher's take on 'Waiting for Superman'

'Vision,' Margarethe von Trotta's study of Hildegard of Bingen, is both a film and a moral lesson.