Safe House

Denzel's Cool in a Not-so-Hot Film

Denzel Washington is the reason to watch Safe House, an otherwise-by-numbers...

The Woman in Black

Daniel Radcliffe moves beyond Harry Potter

The narrow road winds through bleak country, devoid of life for many miles save the squawking sea gulls overhead...

UW-Milwaukee's 2012 Festival of Films in French

'Queen to Play,' 'Father of My Children' among highlights

This year's Festival of Films in French...

Haywire

Steven Soderbergh's kickboxing fantasy

Credit Steven Soderbergh for his willingness to try almost everything in his up-and-down career...

A Dangerous Method

Freud and Jung spar in Cronenberg film

The ideas of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung changed the world, and the bitter split between...

Carnage

A touchy-feely effort comes to blows

Roman Polanski may never be able to film in America again, but that can't stop him from setting...

Top 11 Films of 2011

It's frustrating. Film critics in Milwaukee can never be sure their top-of-the-year list...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Gary Oldman stars in John le Carré's Cold War drama

Although the year of the setting is never identified, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy looks circa 1980...

The Artist

Revisiting the birth of talking pictures

The Artist is a brilliantly conceived and executed journey into the past. French filmmaker...

War Horse

Steven Spielberg rides wave of sentimentality

War Horse begins with a graceful sweep over England's green and pleasant land—an emerald countryside...

The Adventures of Tintin

Spielberg transforms comic books into 3-D extravaganza

For some moviegoers, the creepiest film ever made wasn't The Exorcist or even Saw, but Polar Express...

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Daniel Craig stars in Stieg Larsson best seller

At least two questions accompany the remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Will David Fincher...

A Game of Shadows

Robert Downey Jr. returns as Sherlock Holmes

The bomb that blew the top hats off the crowd was branded as the work of anarchists...

Young Adult

Charlize Theron stars in Jason Reitman film

With Juno, director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody conceived...

Melancholia

Kirsten Dunst gives award-worthy performance

An unknown planet hidden behind the sun comes loose from its orbit and veers toward the Earth...

Hugo

Martin Scorsese's homage to the birth of cinema

Mention Martin Scorsese and gritty drama usually comes to mind. He was the director of Mean Streets...

The Descendants

Film tackles life and death, fidelity and family

Matt King, the George Clooney protagonist of The Descendants, starts the film by remarking how...

J. Edgar

DiCaprio's Astonishing Performance as the FBI Chief

My first memory of J. Edgar Hoover comes from early childhood in the 1960s...

The Skin I Live In

Pedro Almodovar's classic horror show

The Skin I Live In is Pedro Almodovar's mad-scientist movie, a horror film all the more horrifying...

The Rum Diary

Johnny Depp portrays young Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson was several years short of finding his voice as a writer...

A Long Run for the Milwaukee Short Film Festival

If you had made a prediction based on its debut, you might have foreseen a very short run...

Demons Among Us

The Horror of Inkubus

Inkubus, the new horror film, was directed by newcomer Glenn Ciano and produced by Chad Verdi. The fright takes place during a graveyard shift at a Rhode Island police station. Inkubus, a demon, walks in holding the head...

Take Shelter

Nowhere to hide in tense, psychological thriller

No one else notices the thunderclap from the cloudless sky, but for Curtis, the sharp retort...

Documenting Author of 'Fiddler on the Roof'

'Sholem Aleichem' a highlight of 2011 Jewish Film Festival

Tevye, perhaps the world's most famous...

The Perfect 'Weekend'

Superb love story opens Milwaukee LGBT Festival

The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival's opening weekend, Oct. 20-23, includes 16 offerings...