On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams (nee Fuller) is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline ...

"Benjamin Button" represents a richly satisfying serving of deep-dish Hollywood storytelling. Due to its history-spanning structure, blank-page title character and technical sleight of hand, the film ...

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is imaginative, evocative, long on craftsmanship but way too long. David Fincher’s film, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, has moments of great beauty and ...

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is that rare thing: a truly magical movie. And as such, it’s difficult to find the right way to convey its spell in words. If I tell you that it’s a movie about ...

The button is a perfect symbol for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Simple and old-fashioned, yet somehow timeless. None of the cheap shortcuts of the zipper or – shudder – Velcro. Take one of ...

Ever since 1996 -- when I'd seen Apollo 13, Babe, Sense And Sensibility and, yes, even Il Postino only to watch Braveheart win the Oscar -- I've seen every Best Picture nominee before the ceremony.

”The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is one of those obligatory Oscar-bait movies, a big, sprawling thing (two hours and 45 minutes!) about the ephemeral, magical moments that make life worth living ...

When we’ve reached the end of a story that touches us deeply, we rarely move right on to the task of figuring out how or why our armor was breached. That kind of assessment might come later, but one ...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Drama. Starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Directed by David Fincher. (PG-13. 167 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) The lesson here is never to aim to make a ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald never had much success when he tried to parlay his literary cache into a Hollywood screenwriting career, but with Eric Roth's (Forrest Gump) superb adaptation of the author's 1922 ...