The National Society of Film Critics today selected "The Hurt Locker," a film about an elite Army bomb squad unit that works in Iraq to defuse improvised explosives while under the threat of insurgents, as the best picture of 2009. ...more

January 3, 2010

The Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" was chosen as the year's best picture Sunday by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The film also won the group's best-director honor for Kathryn Bigelow. ...more

December 14, 2009

NEW IN TOWN The Class French film "Entre Les Murs" centers on a teacher who teaches an ethnically diverse class in a tough Parisian neighborhood. Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. 128 minutes. (PG; profanity) ...more

March 20, 2009

OPENING Mongol (not Reviewed) Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, this action-adventure movie recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world, including Russia, in 1206. In Mongolian with English subtitles. 126 minutes (R; sequences of bloody warfare) ...more

June 26, 2008

Joel and Ethan Coen's western noir "No Country for Old Men" was the big winner Monday at the 13th annual Critics' Choice Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. ...more

January 10, 2008