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She has one career in Britain, and another in France. Nicholas Barber traces a career that is not all cut glass ...  read more »

It’s been an immense career, but an uneven one. With "Shutter Island" now proving to be Martin Scorsese's biggest box-office hit, Tom Shone draws up a list of his eight best films ...  read more »

Eric Rohmer populated his films with pretty people making silly mistakes. Andrew Stout considers some of his earliest work ...  read more »

As the Museum of Modern Art stages a big retrospective of Tim Burton's work, Melinda Dodd considers a man who's made a career out of embracing his dark side ...  read more »

Colin Firth is outstanding, as he shows in “A Single Man”, for which he has just won a Bafta. So why isn’t he at his best more often? Isabel Lloyd asks him ...  read more »

He doesn’t take many roles but they tend to be memorable, from an Edwardian prig to a murderous oilman and now a singing film director in "Nine", a new musical from Rob Marshall. Matthew Sweet picks the best ...  read more »

The first video game about the Iraq war provoked a firestorm of its own. A realistic game about the second invasion of Fallujah might be a bit too ambitious, writes Benjamin Pauker ...  read more »

She’s been a media darling for 40 years—and a fine actress. As she graces the big screen in the newsroom thriller "State of Play", Irving Wardle (theatre) and Matthew Sweet (film) pick her star turns ...  read more »

Despite having one of the best filmmaking streaks of the 1970s, Hal Ashby is largely unheard of. But with a new biography and some vocal acolytes, the director may be finally getting his due, writes Daniel Arizona ...  read more »

"Returning to men in tights after a 15-year world-literature binge, I was almost overwhelmed by Alan Moore's 'Watchmen'," writes Garth Risk Hallberg. He's startled by the comic's complexity, but stumbles over the term "graphic novel" ...  read more »