Timur Bekmambetov’s latest film, and his first American effort, is the violent Matrix/Bourne series/Fight Club mashup Wanted, starring James McAvaoy and Angelina Jolie.

Chris Bell’s entertaining and edifying documentary about steroids, Bigger, Stronger, Faster, explodes the media myths abou

Mongol, the new beautifully staged epic by Russian auteur Sergei Bodrov (Pri

Recall those images of Abu Ghraib—those cheap, seemingly spontaneous snapshots are, thus far, the most powerful pictures of the 21st century.

As a dumb B-movie intended to give you the creeps, the jumps and the mocking laugh attacks at its dumbness, The Happening gets two somewhat unenthusiastic thumbs up...

For those who struggle with religious faith, one question yet gnaws: How can there be a God who is all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good, but who still allows Adam Sandler movies to exist?

The French Ministry of Culture may have enacted laws that mandate 40 percent of music made in France to be in French, but that doesn’t mean a French filmmaker can’t purloin 90 percent of h

That we can't all just get along is confirmed in the new bad cop/badder cop noir thriller,

Street Kings

, which is set in America's symbolic capital of police brutality: Los Angeles.

Marla Olmstead paints ferocious, bold abstractions that convey the joys, sorrows and fears of existence. She has an agent and solo exhibitions in glamorous galleries, cruises in limos and boasts work that sells for tens of thousands of dollars. Her other accomplishments include teething, learning to pee in a toilet and successful bipedal motion.

Though Rendition is problematic, it does raise questions about American involvement in the practice of torture. Mark Danner, a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror and The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History, discusses these questions with SFR.