The Sea Inside, the new right-to-die drama from Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar (The Others), is a flawed film worth seeing. Based on Letters From Hell, a book by quadriplegic Ramón Sampedro about ...

Based on the chastened life and hastened death of Spanish euthanasia activist Ramón Sampedro, the painterly biopic The Sea Inside finds art-house hunk Javier Bardem gazing Oscar-ward. Aged to a ...

I approached The Sea Inside with the sort of dread I reserve for disease-of-the-week made-for-TV movies. Sure, this was a classy production starring a solid, stolid actor, Javier Bardem (Before Night ...

In Spanish writer-director Alejandro Amenabar's movies, life is a slippery thing. Reality evaporated into a dreamy blur in Amenabar's 1997 "Open Your Eyes" (remade in Hollywood as "Vanilla Sky"), and ...