"Interesting" is one of those kiss-of-death compliments in the movie business. It's a code word that ranks right up there with "You've done it again" as a noncommittal way to avoid saying someone's ...

Junebug (Sony Pictures Classics) has been bugging me. I’ve seen it twice and have been laboring to make total sense of it, but it has more layers and disjunctions than I can keep track of, and I’m ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it.

I'm used to movies about dysfunctional families that are full of flamboyant characters doing outrageous things and then all making up by the end. It's rare to find a family drama as subtle, graceful ...

NEW YORK — Sony Pictures Classics’ “Junebug” preem Monday was an SRO affair, with guests lining the back of the theater to watch frosh feature helmer Phil Morrison‘s Southern indie unspool. “We’ve ...

THE "JUNEBUG" referred to in the title of director Phil Morrison's funny-sad first feature film is not the summertime beetle so ubiquitous in the Southern states, but the nickname of a character's ...