A romance starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, "(500) Days of Summer" understands that we mark our lives by our scrapes and defeats with love rather than by the white-wedding-cake successes.

Oh, that Lars von Trier, what will he do to women next? If his new film “Antichrist” is any indication, it will be off-with-their-heads and all their erogenous zones, but slowly, painfully and with a very dull knife.

According to Roland Emmerich's latest blockbuster “2012,” Mayan mythology puts the end of the world a little more than two years from now.

Love happens. But so do malodorous bodily functions. First time filmmaker Brandon Camp tries and fails to flout the genre's formula with his dud of a title, “Love Happens.”

“I always feel particularly nervous at this time; I'm afraid that Han-sun will never come back.”

Two movies battle for pride of place in "Julie & Julia," Nora Ephron's adaptation of memoirs by blogger Julie Powell and culinary legend Julia Child.

The exclamation point at the end of "The Informant!" gives it all away. While the title may promise a straightforward drama, that bit of faux-jaunty emphasis shows that nothing of the sort is in store — not surprising, with the lively Steven Soderbergh directing.

Prominent director Monika Treut, known for feature films and documentaries that explore gender issues and sexuality, returns to her beloved Taiwan in her latest film, “Ghosted," a supernatural murder mystery entwined with a cross-cultural love triangle.

A coming-of-age comedy set during the 1969 three-day music festival, "Taking Woodstock" revisits Ang Lee's ("Eat Drink Man Woman," "Brokeback Mountain") most signature themes, including the journey of a gay man grappling with his sexuality, but steadfastly remains outside the main event and its familiar muddy scrum of hippies and hangers-on.

In “A Place of One's Own,” Taiwanese director Lou Yi-an (樓一安) examines the cynicism of creative types and the anger of marginalized people in contemporary Taipei.