Robert Downey Jr.

What we learned at TIFF 2014, from the best under-the-radar films to the biggest festival blunders

Brian D. Johnson on what to see this weekend

The sleuth of baker street returns with the first authorized novel post-Conan Doyle

Robert Downey Jr. plays it straight, and gives stoner boy Zach Galifianakis a master class in acting

He calls Keira Knightley ‘brilliant,’ Robert Downey Jr. ‘glib’—and turned down ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’

Robert Downey Jr.’s rehab is complete—he’s a comic genius shackled to 12-step action movie

Opening weekend: ‘State of Play’ revives the retro romance of the crusading newspaper reporter

‘The Soloist’ tells the story of a man who can’t even watch the film that will make him a star

The Iron Man of acting delivers the world’s first DVD commentary in verbal blackface.

Somehow I neglected to see Made of Honor. Shoot me. But among this week’s other new releases, there are some solid choices. From Hollywood, a new superhero is born with Iron Man, starring a re-tooled Robert Downey Jr., whose transformation from freaky, drug-addicted felon to buff box-office titan is as miraculous as the change undergone by his character onscreen. From Canada, Anne Michaels’ novel Fugitive Pieces finally opens in Canadian theatres, with an ending radically amended from the version that premiered as the opening night gala of the Toronto International Film Festival last year. And documentary wizard Errol Morris brings us Standard Operating Procedure, a mesmerizing investigation into the larger crimes behind the shocking photographs of military abuse from Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.