Regarding the irrelevance of Untraceable: First of all, torture is so 2007, and just because this drab little thriller with…
Credit writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein with making a first feature that every man in America will watch with his legs crossed:…
Persepolis is a small landmark in feature animation. Not because of technical innovation—though it moves fluidly enough and its drawings…
The Willow Tree is the first film from Iranian director Majid Majidi to deal primarily with adults rather than children,…
A year after winning the screenplay and audience awards at Sundance 2007, writer-director James C. Strouse’s Grace Is Gone has…
High School Musical excepted, dance figures now in teen movies mostly as competitive sport: Either it’s an NBA-like ticket out,…
Manhattan is under attack! Wheres Will Smith to save us from shaky cameras, blathering YouTube actors, and cheap scares?
The Kingdom Universal, $29.98 No doubt about it, Peter Berg’s The Kingdom ranked as one of 2007’s more visceral action…
This dutiful documentary has less to do with Hitler and Himmler than with Louis B. Mayer and Jack Warner….
“I do think the writing is pessimistic—all that stuff about life being a tragic experience,” says Angela Stark (played by…
In this remake of a 2001 BBC television production titled Hot Money—about women who clean the Bank of England…
The three deepest profundities plowed by Mark Obenhaus’ blandly beautiful, inarticulate extreme-skiing doc are: (1) Alaskan snow feels unusually…
A forgettable, formulaic comedy so predictable that seeing it and skipping it are the exact same thing. Fox sneak-previewed…
Billy is a 15-year-old boy living in rural Maine. He’s also THAT KID you went to high school with—you…
A critical element of waging war is the maintenance of a well-oiled propaganda machine, one that carefully manages…
Usually the phrase “based on the popular Japanese comic book” means you can expect saucer-eyed cherubs or bullet-breasted ninja…
LeeJohn (Tracy Morgan) is the screwup-schemey one; Durell (Ice Cube), the should-know-better buddy. Their latest very awful idea: breaking…
Rob Reiner’s latest film is, among other things, a reflection of our persistent cultural belief that you haven’t really…
In 1976, when Gengnian (Sun Haiying) returns from six years of brutal re-education, he finds that his son, Xiangyang…
Eastern Promises Universal, $29.98 Though it’s showing up on several 10-best lists for 2007, there’s still a bit of the…
