The squeamish should avert their eyes and the easily frightenedmight take a rain(forest) check, but sticking it out for”Apocalypto” yields fascination. There may ...

Nothing gets Mel Gibson’s blood pumping as a filmmaker more than the sight, sound and splatter of someone’s blood actually pumping or, in the case of “Apocalypto,” spritzing from an actor’s temple, as ...

Mel Gibson's latest release "Apocalypto" will test his popularity in the wake of his anti-Semitic outburst during a DUI arrest in late July. The incident might hinder the movie's success at the box ...

Since rewriting the rules of Hollywood with his self-financed crucifixion blockbuster “The Passion of the Christ” (2004), Mel Gibson has busied himself creating one of the most bizarre and erratic ...

Mel Gibson wants to tell you something in his movies. Whether it’s about the importance of freedom (“Braveheart”) or selfless suffering (“The Passion of the Christ”), Gibson always seems to have one ...

WITH a ferocity that is often as difficult to take as it is fascinating to watch, Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto” comes crashing across 500 years of history with such immediacy that it feels as if this ...

Filmgoers who pledged to avoid the controversial director's movies after his anti-Semitic rant this summer will be missing out on a great movie. Just a few months ago, Barbara Walters declared she ...

The tranquility of a jungle village is shattered forever and a young man fights the forces responsible to save his very way of life in the new Mel Gibson epic “Apocalypto.” The thrill of the hunt, the ...

The bulk of this review’s constructive criticisms are going to fall on the back of its creator, Mel Gibson. Beyond his distinguished career in acting, Gibson is a very interesting director and has ...

It’s safe to say that only Mel Gibson could have made Apocalypto. No other director would have been able to gather enough funding to produce a film with mostly non-actors in a Mayan dialect. Yet for ...

“Apocalypto” will have a hard time matching the success of “The Passion of the Christ,” and not merely because of its director’s recent drunken monologue about Jewish people. This is a brutal, violent ...