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Staff WriterContrary to previous films from Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn, ?21 Grams? is not a reference to drug use. The title actually revolves around the idea that in between the brief moments of ...

Alejandro González Iñárritu made his name with 2000’s Oscar-winning stunner “Amores Perros,” a gritty, stylish look at life, love, and death among the underclass in Mexico City. He returns with “21 ...

"I make films not for the most stupid people in the world." -- Alejandro González Iñárritu to Karen Martin, September 2003 When Karen finds something she likes, she holds onto it. Around the house she ...

Under its seemingly chic despair, its celebration of squalor and pain, its violence, its willfully skewed narrative scheme, "21 Grams" turns out to be a powerful relic from a bygone age: It's really a ...