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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...