In director Seth Gordon’s Identity Thief, Jason Bateman plays a mild-mannered accountant who falls prey to a skilled con artist (Melissa McCarthy). This Diana-assuming-that’s-even-her-real-name ...

"Identity Thief" is a raunchy road trip comedy with a simple yet meandering plot that relies heavily on immature humor - and yet, it somehow isn't actually that awful. Probably because of Melissa ...

Hollywood’s latest films performed tepidly at the box-office on Oscar weekend, with Melissa McCarthy’s “Identity Thief” returning to the top spot in its third week of release. The Universal comedy ...

Melissa McCarthy knows how to use her bulk; she hurls herself around the screen as dangerously as Chris Farley or John Belushi, and I can’t think of any woman in American movie comedy quite like her.

If there still is a post-Bridesmaids question as to whether Melissa McCarthy, an audience favorite given the movie's MVP award in the form of an Oscar nomination, is a bona fide Movie Star, the most ...