Gabourey Sidibe plays an abused teen mother in "Precious." She’s 16, morbidly obese and illiterate. She lives in 1987 Harlem with her abusive, welfare-scamming, couch-potato mother. Oh, and she’s ...

LITTLE ROCK — Movies come, movies go. A rare few arrive like gifts, sent by some cosmic messenger to awaken compassion and empathy. Such is the movie Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Its title, undoubtedly the most awkward of the year, is nevertheless informative. The horrific events of this movie, it tells us, were not based on a true story. Thank goodness.

“Precious” is a cinematic rarity: it touches hearts and minds, attacks monstrous subjects with the utmost bravery, yet somehow leaves us thoroughly entertained. And it never succumbs to the original ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Here are two words we promise not to use in this review of “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”: monstrous and horrific. It isn’t that those ...

Lee Daniel's low-budget film, "Precious," is based on the award-winning novel "Push" by the African American author Sapphire. Like the book, the movie tells the story of an obese 16-year-old girl from ...

LOS ANGELES — As Hollywood closed specialty divisions that aimed for quality and personal stories, as studios focus more and more on superhero sagas and action blockbusters, cinema fans have rightly ...

"Precious" is sure to be a front-runner for the best picture Oscar, and will win tons of other awards. Director Lee Daniels used a documentary-like shooting technique, which makes his film even more ...

The genius of Mo’nique’s Oscar-winning performance is how it straddles a line. The over-the-top nastiness of abusive mother Mary would feel at home in a Bond film, but the pain she reveals in scenes ...