Alexander Payne is both the most aptly-named director and the least accurate: His movies are all about people enduring a fair share of pain, but his default reaction is to find humor in that. It’s a ...

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig of USA Today, Andy Klein and animation historian Charles Solomon review The Descendants, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, Happy Feet Two and ...