Brainy Polly (The O.C.‘s Shannon Lucio) has just been accepted to Harvard, meaning she’ll soon leave behind her three best…
First-time writer-director Helen Hunt stars as April Epner, a schoolteacher desperate to have a child before she turns 40. (Hunt…
If the great movie musicals of yesteryear put a song in your heart, Christophe Honoré’s Love Songs leaves you with…
Kimihiko (Sadao Abe) has a dream. That, one day, he will play yakyuken (strip poker) with a geisha. The noodle…
Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial “fornicator” slowly but surely domesticated by his unspoken love for…
Of the 40,000 thoroughbreds foaled in the United States annually, only 20 make the regal two-minute run that is the…
During George W. Bush’s fourth term as president, the administration’s desire for crises and predisposition toward fuckups leads to the…
Riddled with high concept, this florid adaptation of Laura Kasischke’s 2002 novel is a horror picture of sorts that plays…
Once more, Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) are on a road trip, this time not in…
True story: In fourth grade, a nun gave me and a friend detention for break dancing, squashing whatever dreams two…
The plot is pure choose-your-own-adventure: A bullied wuxia fanboy from South Boston (Michael Angarano) is teleported back into a LARP…
Priceless begins as standard, unconvincing, assembly-line French farce and ends as a cop-out, feel-good rom-com. In between, it develops into…
Jon Avnet’s cheesy new thriller is 105 minutes long, and I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up…
Jason Segel puts it all out there—and, like, it’s all out there in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It takes all of…
The Station Agent‘s writer/director, Tom McCarthy, follows up that surprise success with another self-consciously whimsical tale of an unlikely threesome—except…
Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this exercise in “body art”…
Wong Kar Wai called Chungking Express, his fourth film but first international calling card, “a road movie of the heart.”…
You come away from Chop Shop with a mood, the voluptuous sum of its fine-tuned parts: the way a rundown…
Co-directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue—yes, that Phil Donahue, who will do a Q&A following the 7 p.m. Friday…
From the washed-out images to the twee voice-over (courtesy of director Stephen Walker), this British television documentary about the titular…
