Toddy Burton

Local filmmaker Ya'Ke's 'The Second Coming' screens on HBO

For all the film’s rallying efforts, its meandering structure and absence of a central focal point result in a film about genocide that is, as unbelievable as it sounds, kind of boring.

Funny when it’s supposed to be serious and awkward when it’s supposed to be romantic, every twist in this Gabriel García Márquez adaptation is a near miss, except for the performance of Javier Bardem.

Only in Hollywood can a movie about alien children be boring, although the terrific performances of John Cusack and Bobby Coleman help redeem this predictable mush.

The creative powerhouse known as Tyler Perry is back in front of and behind the camera with this predictable film about four married couples.

A small-town high school baseball team is put to the test in this emphatically inspirational mess.

Using a conversation about history, three men, and a talk show, this Romanian comedy and Cannes Camera d’Or winner achieves surprising levels of underplayed wit and pathos. AFS@Dobie

Jet Li and Jason Statham spar and provoke all-out war among the Asian mobs.

Pure farce served straight up and directed by the man who moonlights as the voice of Yoda and Miss Piggy.

Is a local production company that recently finished its first documentary too good to be true?

Cheadle leads a great cast through a musical glance at D.C. in the Sixties and Seventies.

How do you tell the true story of the nearly mythical popular performer Edith Piaf? In epic proportions, of course.

Davis Guggenheim (director of An Inconvenient Truth) tells this more-or-less true story of one New Jersey girl's struggle to play soccer in the male-dominated sports world of the late Seventies.

The filmmakers, cast, and crew of 'Chalk' learned valuable lessons with little in the way of a plan or a budget

David Duchovny and Sigourney Weaver star in this dyspeptic drama about the work of creating television shows.