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According to Box Office Mojo, Avatar has made over $2.5 billion worldwide to date. it made over $77 million domestically opening weekend. Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland has been out since Friday. It made over $116 million opening weekend, over $210 million worldwide.

When cinema first became a commercial enterprise, it [...]

The way films are promoted and marketed has been dramatically changed by the prevalence of film clips & reviews of top indie movies on the internet. The number of web sites and blogs devoted to independent films has grown. There are no longer barriers to entry in starting such an internet presence. With this new [...]

Robert Pattinson in "Remember Me" ( Summit Entertainment )

Anticipation has been high for Robert Pattinson's first major post-'Twilight' role.

After wrapping filming on "New Moon" in May 2009 and before beginning the shoot for "Eclipse" that August, Robert Pattinson headed to New York to shoot his first major post-"Twilight" role:  the lead in the [...]

Gab Archive/Redferns
The Runaways: from left, Cherie Currie, Joan Jett, Sandy West,
Lita Ford and Jackie Fox.

THE most striking thing about “The Runaways,” a new film about the trailblazing bad-girl rock band from the 1970s that spawned Joan Jett, is how authentic it feels. The clubs are properly scuzzy. The dialogue is properly raunchy. The [...]

Richard Harbaugh/European Pressphoto Agency
Kathryn Bigelow backstage at last Sunday’s Academy Awards show.

KATHRYN BIGELOW’S two-fisted win at the Academy Awards for best director and best film for “The Hurt Locker” didn’t just punch through the American movie industry’s seemingly shatterproof glass ceiling; it has also helped dismantle stereotypes about what types of films women can [...]

Magnolia Pictures
Kim Hye-Ja in “Mother,” directed by Bong Joon-ho.

The last monster to run wild through Bong Joon-ho’s imagination was an enormous creature from the watery deep. A different menace storms through “Mother,” the fourth feature from this sensationally talented South Korean filmmaker, though she too seems to spring from unfathomable depths. Unlike the beast in [...]

Photofest/Film Forum
Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel in one of Victor Fleming’s well-known films, “Gone With the Wind,” playing Saturday through Tuesday at the Film Forum as part of a retrospective of his work.

Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases, movie trailers, showtimes and [...]

Oscilloscope Laboratories
Zoe Kazan plays Ivy in “The Exploding Girl,” directed by Bradley Rust Gray.

Ivy (Zoe Kazan), present in virtually every frame of “The Exploding Girl,” Bradley Rust Gray’s sweet and tentative new film, is home from college for the summer, back in a New York suffused with leafy green in the daytime and red neon [...]

Chris Teague/The Kids Are Alright Productions
Crystal Chiu and Michael Chen in “Children of Invention.”

Restraint proves a virtue of — and a shrewd if necessary choice for — “Children of Invention,” a modestly scaled, quietly effective independent movie about a struggling single mother and her two children. Directed and written by Tze Chun, making a fine [...]

DELTA (1h32) Directed by Kornél Mundruczó

When the liveliest character in a movie is the heroine’s pet turtle, you know you’re in for some seriously stately filmmaking, and “Delta” does not disappoint. Set in a village on the edge of the Hungarian Danube, this visually demonstrative, emotionally constipated drama observes the fallout when a towheaded prodigal [...]