Sean Burns

Once banned for obscenity, his X-rated comedies are canonized in the Criterion Collection and National Film Registry. Now he's receiving the Coolidge Award and the theater is running a six-film retrospective of his work. “I’m getting so respectable, it’s scary,” Waters said.

Stop me if you've heard this one: A candy-colored phenomenon beloved by women of all ages is making its big-screen debut on the same day as a violent, R-rated historical epic with far more masculine appeal.

Angelina Jolie is a great actress who has arguably never appeared in a great film. This is not entirely her fault. It's the pictures that got small.

When it comes to movie adaptations of popular novels, people like to tell you that the book is always better.

My friend David Brudnoy died 20 years ago, on Dec. 9, 2004. He was 64 years old.

Sean Burns went to the movies 185 times during the first 11 months of this year. Here are five of his favorites.

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A more-personal-than-usual reflection on the holiday perennial, now streaming on Amazon Prime.

Starring Timothée Chalamet, director James Mangold’s movie about Dylan’s early years in NYC is pure Hollywood hokum, "compressing a tumultuous chunk of cultural history into an easily digestible arc," reviews film critic Sean Burns.