Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson survive their melodrama.

Jumper and Be Kind Rewind dive headlong into our headspace.

George Romero’s new living-dead film has got superior carnage—and a message, too.

Tragic. Comic. Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges can’t make up its mind.

Sylvester Stallone returns with a bang.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days looks back in anger at Romania’s dead-soul past.

Over the next several pages are images that represent a few of my favorite female performances of 2007.

Two summers ago, on the opening night of Mother Courage and Her Children with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman shambled into the outdoor Delacorte Theater audience alone, uncombed, unshaved, in a faded black T-shirt, glancing neither left nor right.

Oil, blood, Iran, and the CIA: Four year-end films worth the trip outdoors.

Johnny Depp slashed throats and Javier Bardem got freaky with a cattle stun gun, Julie Christie astonished, rats mingled with Ayn Rand, and we came to an infinitely greater understanding of what can happen in the blink of an eye.