This summer, the omnipresent Will Ferrell is last year’s Jude Law.

Mos Def has steered his career with elegant foresight. Now he’s heading for outer space—and it may be his best move yet.

When Ben Stiller reached his commercial peak, critics attacked. No wonder he’s struggling with the comedian’s midlife crisis: the need to be taken seriously.

"I’ve always loved movies, but I guess I did everything to avoid the very hard thing of making a feature film,” says renaissance hipster Miranda July.

Born Into Brothels, couldn’t be more earnest—it’s about the children of prostitutes in Calcutta’s red-light district—but it couldn’t be more powerful either.

A filmgoer’s resolution for 2005: More MoMA.

You will not find a more exciting, international slate of films than the 34th New Directors/New Films series.

Actor-director John Turturro makes his song-and-dance debut with Romance & Cigarettes, a musical that May be the most outlandish indie of the season.

What did the idiosyncratic director do with his first full-size budget? He put Bill Murray into a father-figure role, and gave him a speargun.

Now I know why everyone makes fight scenes in the bamboo forests.