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 ...

“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 ...

"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 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 ...

The film adaptation of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button emphasizes the loneliness and inevitability of Benjamin's aging backwards, creating a tragic tone that contrasts with Fitzgerald's satirical ...

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 ...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an epic, not of scale, but of time. It is the story of an infant born suffering the infirmities of old age who lives his life in reverse, growing younger with ...

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 ...