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New on DVD: Local Teacher Conquers Florida Gunslinger!
Joshua Fox, $27.98 George Ratliff’s movie, a sort of satirical take on Rosemary’s Baby, came and went upon…
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The Monastery: Love Among the Relics of Christianity
Living alone in the dilapidated Hesbjerg Castle he purchased more than 40 years ago, octogenarian bachelor Jørgen…
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U2 3D: Irish Supergroup Gets Supersized
Three dimensions seem scarcely enough to contain the messianic impulses of the world’s hardest-rocking humanitarian aid project, and…
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Untraceable: Diane Lane Is a Cougar With a Gun!
Regarding the irrelevance of Untraceable: First of all, torture is so 2007, and just because this drab little…
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Teeth: Teen Sex Gets Even More Dangerous
Credit writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein with making a first feature that every man in America will watch with his…
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Persepolis: Abba Versus the Mullahs!
Persepolis is a small landmark in feature animation. Not because of technical innovation—though it moves fluidly enough and…
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The Willow Tree: Iranian Auteur Majid Majidi Turns to Grown-Ups
The Willow Tree is the first film from Iranian director Majid Majidi to deal primarily with adults rather…
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Grace Is Gone: John Cusacks Bad Hair Signifies Sincerity
A year after winning the screenplay and audience awards at Sundance 2007, writer-director James C. Strouse’s Grace Is…
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How She Move: Better Than High School Musical
High School Musical excepted, dance figures now in teen movies mostly as competitive sport: Either it’s an NBA-like…
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Cloverfield: The Blair Witch Monster
Manhattan is under attack! Wheres Will Smith to save us from shaky cameras, blathering YouTube actors, and cheap…
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Fresh Carnage From Jennifer Garner and Jason Statham
The Kingdom Universal, $29.98 No doubt about it, Peter Berg’s The Kingdom ranked as one of 2007’s more…
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Imaginary Witness: The Holocaust Before Sophies Choice
This dutiful documentary has less to do with Hitler and Himmler than with Louis B. Mayer and…
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Cassandras Dream: Woodys Latest Is DOA.
“I do think the writing is pessimistic—all that stuff about life being a tragic experience,” says Angela Stark…
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Mad Money: Diane Keaton Offers Her Two Cents Worth
In this remake of a 2001 BBC television production titled Hot Money—about women who clean the Bank…
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Steep: Local Skier Makes Good!
The three deepest profundities plowed by Mark Obenhaus’ blandly beautiful, inarticulate extreme-skiing doc are: (1) Alaskan snow…
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27 Dresses: Katherine Heigl Is Naked Without Judd Apatow
A forgettable, formulaic comedy so predictable that seeing it and skipping it are the exact same thing.…
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Billy the Kid: A Teen Icon for the ADD Set
Billy is a 15-year-old boy living in rural Maine. He’s also THAT KID you went to high…
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War Made Easy: Or, How Bush Snookered Big Media
A critical element of waging war is the maintenance of a well-oiled propaganda machine, one that…
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Honey and Clover: Not Exactly Art School Confidential
Usually the phrase “based on the popular Japanese comic book” means you can expect saucer-eyed cherubs or…
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First Sunday: Tracy Morgan Cashes Easy Paycheck
LeeJohn (Tracy Morgan) is the screwup-schemey one; Durell (Ice Cube), the should-know-better buddy. Their latest very awful…