In the past, in lieu of ranking movies and being held hostage by the dissonance between the film release calendar and my own experience of the ebb and flow of filmgoing, I have listed my favorite ...

Blue Valentine, a raw and affecting drama about a young couple’s crumbling marriage, contained little in the way of sex or violence. Just weeks before it opened, the film was given an NC-17 rating by ...

An acclaimed entry from the dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival, Derek Cianfrance’s “Blue Valentine,” has been acquired by The Weinstein Company, a film rep confirmed this morning. The ...