One of my favorite endings to a film is that of John Sayles’s Limbo. The characters’ fate will hinge on who’s in an approaching plane—but before the plane lands, the movie ends. Sayles’s refusal to ...

Those concerned that a 2 1/2 hour movie titled “Biutiful” might bear some of the attributes typically characterized as “pretentious” will not be reassured by the opening, whispered dialogue, with the ...

Writer-director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s rich history of plumbing the depths of human misery hits bottom with “Bituiful,” a wrenching portrait of a hustler and devoted father trying to get his ...

`Biutiful" revels in complexity and contradiction. That's typical of a movie directed by Mexican-born Alejandro González Iñárritu, who's known for such multi-character studies as `Babel' and `Amores ...

The 8th edition of the Morelia International Film Festival will kick off with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's latest drama "Biutiful," marking the Mexico premiere of the Javier Bardem vehicle. By John ...