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Ms. King played Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler’s ill-fated little girl, Bonnie Blue Butler, in “Gone With the Wind.”
Like its subject, the movie is sharp, charismatic and so light on its feet we never know which way it will turn.
The film about living in New York post-9/11, is earnest and well meaning and, while dangerously sentimental at times, never quite crosses the line into maudlin.
The bungled wedding story and the road movie collide happily in “White Wedding.”
The Portuguese director Miguel Gomes blurs the line between nonfiction and fiction.
“Max Manus” is a solidly acted biopic of World War II derring-do.
A boy loses his rodent and finds a girl in “Etienne!,” a sunny-sweet fable about healing wounds with the balm of the open road.
Robert Rodriguez’s splatter comedy “Machete” is a live-action comic book with roots in the pungent swamp of 1970s B movies.
An alcoholic finds self-respect as the coach of a high school girls’ basketball team in “The Winning Season.”
This documentary by Lixin Fan traces the conflicts between married migrant factory workers in Guangzhou and their daughter, strains partly resulting from China’s accelerating economy.
The Museum of Modern Art and TCM are revisiting “The March of Time” series, short films created from 1935 to 1951 that examine foreign affairs and social issues.
In “Going the Distance” Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are young lovers struggling through a cross-country romance.
The director Zhang Yimou honors the unlikely affinity between himself and Joel and Ethan Coen with a remake of their movie “Blood Simple.”
The documentary is adapted from the writing of Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish statistician who has argued against what he believes are extreme and alarmist scenarios presented by other environmentalists.
Mr. Douglas, the actor and "Wall Street" star, said he had been given the diagnosis over the summer and that he believed he had an 80 percent chance of recovery.
“My Dog Tulip,” an animated film based on the 1956 memoir by J. R. Ackerley, explores a lonely man’s devotion toward his pet.
“The Town” gives Ben Affleck another chance to shine as writer, director and star.
This suspense thriller, directed by Anton Corbijn, is often more evocative of the art house than of the multiplex.
Paul Hogan, the Australian-born, U.S.-based actor, has been unable to leave Australia because of a tax dispute.
Final figures show it was edged out by "Takers."
A. O. Scott looks back at the 1963 caper film starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn and Walter Matthau.
Nagesh Kukunoor’s “Aashayein” is a genre-defying Bollywood look at death.
A PG-13 rating and a wide release helped push the horror movie “The Last Exorcism” to No. 1 at the box office.
Barbara Loden’s film “Wanda,” a feminist portrayal of a woman struggling to survive, is being reissued.
“Pandora and the Flying Dutchman,” Albert Lewin’s morbid, grandiloquent Technicolor film starring Ava Gardner and James Mason, has been released on DVD.
The animation team Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, in films like “My Dog Tulip,” use custom-made computers to create their hand-drawn-looking images.
The documentary “Last Train Home” looks at a generation of migrant workers who have sacrificed their families to China’s rush to economic supremacy.
The 1981 Dudley Moore comedy “Arthur” is being remade, starring Russell Brand, and filming is taking place all over Manhattan and Queens.
The new film “Louis” is shown with live music led by Wynton Marsalis.
From Dana Brown, who made “Step Into Liquid,” comes a documentary about a surfing season on the North Shore of Oahu.
