The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a visually stunning fantasy film starring Brad Pitt, is a must-watch before it leaves Netflix.

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 ...

David Fincher raises expectations. If nothing else, he's one of the best technical filmmakers working today, and he's also a man who commits to a number of projects but tends to put a film out every ...

“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.

Based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button concerns itself with the life of an individual who ages in reverse. Starting from birth as a shriveled old man to his ...

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 ...

Producer David Fincher and writer Eric Roth take us on a nearly three-hour journey through a two-hour short story written long ago by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The result is a tedious look at a ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. The whole first section of the film is a bit like warmed-over Big Fish—from the framing story with the daughter (Julia Ormond) ...