The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” an old-school Hollywood romance with an eccentric streak, provides an occasion to ponder the curious case of David Fincher, a big-budget filmmaker with a taste ...

Though Hollywood suits have been trying to make it for decades, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is not a project that cries out to be filmed. Now that it's finally been turned into a major ...

"Benjamin Button" represents a richly satisfying serving of deep-dish Hollywood storytelling. Due to its history-spanning structure, blank-page title character and technical sleight of hand, the film ...

Intermittently throughout "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," an elderly man recounts in a worn and quivering voice, "Did I tell you how I was struck by lightning seven times?" Cut to a silent-film ...

Here’s a helpful comparison for understanding why F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button really shouldn’t have been made into a movie: Consider Franz Kafka’s ...

Why it’ll win: “Button” is thematically gripping, viscerally poignant, visually stunning storytelling with a literary backbone in the way of an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story that will appeal to the ...