Matthew Fox wonders how he can drive his Speed car back to the island.

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Speed Racer

The Wachowski Brothers Regress Into Their TV Infancy

Paltrow and Downey preserve their humanity beneath the movie’s metal gear-work.

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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…

Binoche mid-Flight.

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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…

Prom trumps Graduation for Lucio.

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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…

Hunt calls her own shots.

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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…

Garrel and Sagnier in Love.

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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…

Shibasaki decides to get her Maiko on.

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Maiko Haaaan!: He’s Hot for Geisha

Kimihiko (Sadao Abe) has a dream. That, one day, he will play yakyuken (strip poker) with a geisha.…

No Honor for Dempsey and Monaghan.

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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…

Barbaro in May action.

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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…

Jameson has moved up or down the career ladder to Strippers?

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Zombie Strippers: Jenna Jameson Doesn’t 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…

Wood before Life makes waves.

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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…

Penn (left) and Cho get high in Harold.

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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…

Yo, check my mad wilderness skillz, y'all!

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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…

Chan gets all rasta in Kingdom.

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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…

Name your Price: Elmaleh and Tautou.

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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…

Pacino prepares to eat cell phone, umbrella, scenery in 88 Minutes.

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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…

Mila Kunis helps Segal Forget.

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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…

Jenkins (left) learns the beat from Sleiman.

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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…

Spurlock finds no Happy Meals in the Middle East.

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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…

Jones (left) and Portman feeling Blue.

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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…