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This film dramatizes a historic labor strike for equal pay that was conducted by the women of a British auto plant in 1968.

Director Michael Winterbottom makes some fatal storytelling miscalculations in this screen adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel that stars Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, and Kate Hudson.

The pleasure of Nicole Holofcener's film – which stars Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, and Amanda Peet – lies in the honesty of its conversations rather than its plot.

Much like the title character Precious, this rough-hewn movie overcomes the unlikely odds for its success.

Before she became a world-renowned brand, Coco Chanel was a girl of few prospects but with lots of pluck.

Drew Barrymore makes her directing debut with this Austin-set story about the modern age of roller girls.

Meryl Streep is irresistible as Julia Child as is Nora Ephron's direction, but Amy Adams' Julie Powell is a dud – a mousy, grouchy irritant.

This impassioned work of persuasion is like a splatter film made for the Lifetime network, a screed against stoning made for audiences who already agree.

Another dangerous liaison, this one based on the Colette novella, reunites director Stephen Frears and star Michelle Pfeiffer.

This new teen sex comedy is both sexist and prudish.

Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes, and Queen Latifah as janitors at the Federal Reserve who plot the "recycling" of currency that is pegged for destruction.

Historically, Nancy Drew may be the best teen detective around, but in this new screen incarnation, she is definitely no spy kid.

What should have turned out as a terrific movie about the crime of spousal abuse has instead received the equivalent of a ham-handed molestation by director Jag Mundhra.

Children of Men brims with cinematic gusto, but the plot raises more questions than it answers.

A rare opportunity to see what's considered the best in the field of short docs; plus all four nominees have a socio-political bent.

This film is a passionate if clunky cri du coeur for the kidnapped and murdered women of Juarez, Mexico – a silent epidemic of as many as 450 crimes in the last 10 years.

For a movie about magic pants, this film shows a surprising level of sophistication – in its performances, its production values, and its emotional maturity.

Von Trotta puts a human face on 1943's Rosenstrasse uprising, one of the few public, and moreover, successful citizen protests against the power of the Nazi regime.

Cast is excellent; movie is OK; men and women are soooo different.

Jude Law's new Alfie is less tramp and more scamp: the modern metrosexual.

A sophisticated date movie about male midlife malcontents and the women who love them, from the director of Election.

Violent French erotica about female empowerment is a turbocharged gender bender that's equal parts soft-core porn and overwrought symbolism.

The women of the online Austin Craft Mafia got it made

Gone, with one major exception, are the delicious hysterics of Almodóvar's earlier works; Talk to Her is a mostly restrained, though by no means unemotional, work about two men in love with comatose women.

A dutiful Tunisian widow and mother of a teenage girl is awakened to self-actualization through the allure of belly-dancing.