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Speed Racer
The Wachowski Brothers Regress Into Their TV Infancy
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Iron Man: Robert Downey Jr. Makes a Comic Book Movie We Actually Like
Chalk it up to personal preference, but I’ve always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by…
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Flight of the Red Balloon: The Return of Hou Hsiao-hsien
The Red Balloon was the art-house E.T. of 1956. Flight of the Red Balloon is something far more…
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Graduation: Bank Robbery for Dummies
Brainy Polly (The O.C.‘s Shannon Lucio) has just been accepted to Harvard, meaning she’ll soon leave behind her…
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Then She Found Me: Helen Hunt Gives Herself the Barbra Treatment
First-time writer-director Helen Hunt stars as April Epner, a schoolteacher desperate to have a child before she turns…
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Love Songs: French Musical Leaves Us Cold
If the great movie musicals of yesteryear put a song in your heart, Christophe Honoré’s Love Songs leaves…
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Maiko Haaaan!: Hes Hot for Geisha
Kimihiko (Sadao Abe) has a dream. That, one day, he will play yakyuken (strip poker) with a geisha.…
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Made of Honor: Back to the O.R., McDreamy!
Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial “fornicator” slowly but surely domesticated by his unspoken…
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The First Saturday in May: Big Deal, a Horse Race
Of the 40,000 thoroughbreds foaled in the United States annually, only 20 make the regal two-minute run that…
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Zombie Strippers: Jenna Jameson Doesnt Bare Her Flesh, But Eats Yours
During George W. Bush’s fourth term as president, the administration’s desire for crises and predisposition toward fuckups leads…
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The Life Before Her Eyes: Uma Thurman Is Confused; Us, Too
Riddled with high concept, this florid adaptation of Laura Kasischke’s 2002 novel is a horror picture of sorts…
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Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantánamo Bay: War on Terror Reaches the Stoner Demo
Once more, Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) are on a road trip, this time…
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Planet B-Boy: Takin the Bronx to Beijing
True story: In fourth grade, a nun gave me and a friend detention for break dancing, squashing whatever…
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The Forbidden Kingdom: Jackie Chan in Dreads!
The plot is pure choose-your-own-adventure: A bullied wuxia fanboy from South Boston (Michael Angarano) is teleported back into…
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Priceless : Audrey Tautou Almost Steals Our Hearts
Priceless begins as standard, unconvincing, assembly-line French farce and ends as a cop-out, feel-good rom-com. In between, it…
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88 Minutes : Hoo-Ah! Pacino Unleashed!
Jon Avnet’s cheesy new thriller is 105 minutes long, and I feared that 100 of them would be…
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall : Enough Penis; More Jokes, Please
Jason Segel puts it all out there—and, like, it’s all out there in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It takes…
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The Visitor : More Liberal Guilt
The Station Agent‘s writer/director, Tom McCarthy, follows up that surprise success with another self-consciously whimsical tale of an…
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Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? : Morgan Spurlock Makes Like Lawrence of Arabia. Not.
Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this exercise in…
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My Blueberry Nights : Wong Kar Wai Hearts America
Wong Kar Wai called Chungking Express, his fourth film but first international calling card, “a road movie of…