A sly satire of an industry and a media climate where everything is fake from the Coen brothers.

The world of tomorrow looks like a cross between the world of Disney and an Eero Saarinen airport.

In Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, spectacular visuals save this film from lukewarm performances and genre cliches.

After being arrested early on Friday while protesting at the Embassy of Sudan, George Clooney was released after a few hours in custody. The actor paid a $100 fine.

George Clooney was arrested Friday morning outside the Embassy of Sudan while protesting actions taken by the Sudanese government he and other activists charge are provoking a humanitarian crisis.

Director Alexander Payne returns after a seven-year absence with a wry family drama that, while lacking the edge of some of his past work, takes an honest and moving look at familial failings.

You may feel the need to shower after seeing The Ides of March. The film’s marketers could have repurposed No Country for Old Men‘s tagline, “There are no clean getaways,” because in the cutthroat political stage on display here, nobody gets out without slinging not just mud, but probably some raw sewage as well.

It’s often said about George Clooney that he’s an old-fashioned movie star, in the mold of Cary Grant, a personality so affable that audiences seem unconsciously predisposed to like him the moment he graces the screen. But in the opening sequence of The American, director Anton Corbijn is quick to make Clooney’s character, Jack, challenge just how much goodwill you’re willing to extend to him. In the wake of a casually cold-hearted act committed in the quiet snows of Sweden, Corbijn and Clooney ask the audience to empathize with the sort of man who isn’t allowed to have friends, because his profession dictates that they are expendable liabilities.

Are you one of the many who have been laid off, fired, sacked, or otherwise sent to an unemployment office in the past year? You’ve probably had more than one revenge fantasy about whomever it was that delivered the news to you. In Up in the Air, writer/director Jason Reitman paints a target on George Clooney’s back and challenges his audience to identify with a guy who delivers this kind of bad news for…

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Sumo practice in Erez Tadmor and Sharon Maymon’s ‘A Matter of Size,’ playing tonight and tomorrow at the Washington Jewish Film Festival. Washington Jewish Film Festival Tonight marks the opening of the 20th iteration of the DC Jewish Community Center’s annual film festival, with the mid-Atlantic premiere of A Matter of Size, an Israeli film about…