Joaquin Phoenix

  USA Gray favorite Joaquin Phoenix gives one of his best (and, the aspiring rap artist claims, his last) acting performances as Leonard Kraditor. The bipolar son of Jewish immigrants, he works at his father's Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, dry-cleaning shop and, ...

NORM: Joaquin Phoenix sports new look He quit after witnessing his actor brother, River Phoenix's death Oct. 31, 1993 from a drug overdose outside Johnny Depp's Viper Room in Hollywood. ... Casey Affleck Direct Documentary On Joaquin Phoenix eFluxMedia

Even the best actors -- and I'd rank Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo among their generation's finest -- can't save a movie that aims for tragedy but stalls at soap opera. Directed by Terry George from a novel by John Burnham Schwartz, the film concerns a hit-and-run that shatters two famil...

Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg Booed at the Cannes film festival (always a sign that a movie has good energy), James Gray's pulverizing crime drama is unafraid to put its passions right out where it's easy to mock them. We Own the Night is defiantly, refreshingly unhip. Set in Brooklyn in th...