By Rex Reed 6/21/11 8:02pm

Movie Review

Demián Bichir in A Better Life.

Chris Weitz’s A Better Life Raises The Bar For Summer Movies

This week, I saw one good movie and two unspeakable piles of garbage. From where I sit, that’s a pretty fair average for the summer. And I didn’t even see the one about Jim Carrey and the penguins.

The one to catch is A Better Life, an intelligent, heartfelt study of the Olympian daily struggles of an honest, hard-working single father who also happens to be an illegal immigrant, toiling as a Mexican gardener in Los Angeles, while doing everything he can to keep his head above water and protect his 14-year-old son from the toxic environment of the ghettos in East L.A. Read More

By Jesse Oxfeld 8/18/10 2:22am

Woody, Is That You? Zach Braff Gets His Woody Allen on In Trust

It’s worth noting that Zach Braff began his career playing Woody Allen’s son.

That was in 1993′s Manhattan Murder Mystery, his first role, before his hit run on Scrubs, before his writer-director turn with Garden State. Armed with those financial and artistic successes, Mr. Braff has returned to the stage-he’s done a few small parts Read More