No actor descends into madness quite like Jack Nicholson.Sean Penn's latest directing effort, "The Pledge," succeeds thanks to a compelling performance from Nicholson, with big assists from a spate of ...

When movie fans say “they don’t make ‘em like they used to,” I always try to fight the kneejerk urge to remind them that every era of any artistic medium always has some bangers and clunkers. After ...

"The Pledge" opens with Jack Nicholson's alcoholic ex-cop mumbling into the wind at a deserted mountain gas station. That's also how Sean Penn's stark film about noble intentions gone awry ends. In ...