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Kurosawa uses Shakespeare's King Lear as a template, but in Ran Lear's three scheming daughters are sons, and the action is transposed to a mythic, dreamlike, feudal Japan. Like an adrenalized fever dream of ultimate power gone awry, Ran reveals Kurosawa's grasp of visual splendor at its most powerful.

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In this French film a 10-year-old girl moves into a new neighborhood and pretends to be a boy because, well, it seems like boys just have more fun.

The Scottish Play – still cursed after all these years

A beloved children's book gets a mediocre screen adaptation

The rom-com is dead! Long live the rom-com!

Business and non-performer accolades precede the AMAs

In this faith-based comedy, frat boys create a fake charity to pay back tuition bills.

The film is an inoffensive slice of canny brand (or is that non-Brand?) management and marketing.

When adventuresome tourists visit the town that housed most of the workers at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, they discover they are not alone.

Wolfgang had a sister who was also a musical prodigy. Guess which sibling the history books remember.

The beloved comic-book hero rediscovers his powers on the big screen.

Nicolas Cage plays a parent on a mission to avenge the murder of his daughter and granddaughter.

This mixture of animated talking animals and live action is unbearable.

Renée Zellweger stars as a social worker who protects a child whose family has created dark forces around her.

Oliver Stone delivers an enlivening and wickedly entertaining take on the occasional angels and plentiful demons that have run the country into financial ruin.

This is an even-handed portrait of discontented lovers: A love that starts out in a fever winds up with lots of pistol-waving.

This nimble movie about Tolstoy's last days stars Christopher Plummer as the author and Helen Mirren as his high-strung wife, Sofya.

Will Ferrell's remake of the beloved Sid and Marty Krofft TV show lacks virtually everything that made the original series so memorable.

Although this hotly anticipated film has ideas galore, it remains bizarrely cold and uninvolving.

Filmmaker Wong Kar-wai's English-language debut stars the singer Norah Jones in her acting debut, but instead of exuding newness this sensuous film has an also-ran feel.

Like Rashomon, this Dennis Quaid vehicle replays a single event – the assassination of the U.S. president – from multiple points of view.

This is a winning, sweet, and occasionally disturbing documentary about otherwise sensible adults who vie for the title of World's Best Donkey Kong Player.

Instead of being the hippest kid on the block, this comedy plays like a schizophrenic exercise in shrill cinematic politics.

This story about one-upmanship while staging a bar mitzvah in L.A., should, by all rights, be very funny, but, sadly, it is not.