Today:
'The Life Before Her Eyes' is just as beautiful as its lead actresses, Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. Based on the Laura Kasischke novel ...
The poster for "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" is the best thing about the movie, depicting the brainy potheads in orange prison jumpsuits ...
What can compare with the white-knuckle suspense of uploading a file? "Deception," that's what. This is a movie jam-packed with all the thrills of watching ...
So what's a guy to do when his girlfriend dumps him? If you're Jason Segel, you try "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," and we get to laugh ...
'Know why the Jews are always persecuted?" Salomon Sorowitsch, a Jew known as the King of the Counterfeiters, tells a friend in 1936 Berlin. "Because ...
Let me say with all confidence that you've never seen, nor will you likely ever see again, a film like "Funny Games." Well, unless you ...
For her first film since 1999's "Boys Don't Cry," Kimberly Peirce initially wanted to make a documentary about soldiers who had fought in the Iraq ...
"Taxi to the Dark Side" is a stunning indictment of torture as policy, a brilliant documentary whose arguments are so well-supported and reasonably made that ...
If you're looking for candidates for most off-the-wall movie of the 2008, you might call "Doomsday" the early favorite. It's a post-apocalyptic thriller, where we ...
Perhaps YouTube and MySpace and the proliferation of cheap, digital video cameras have turned us into a nation of navel-gazers. We sit in front of ...
The biggest complaint I have about Will Ferrell's latest (and there are plenty) is its rating. For some reason, director Kent Alterman chose to leave ...
"City of Men" begins atop the metaphorically named Dead End Hill in Rio de Janeiro, where a gun-toting gang is lazily contemplating a swim. With ...
Charlie Bartlett tries hard to be cool. He's been thrown out of every private school in the region for trying to make friends. Usually by ...
Day-Lewis gives the performance of his career Someday we're probably going to look back at "There Will Be Blood," Paul Thomas Anderson's epic about greed, ...
The Coen Brothers have come full circle with their latest film, a Western-noir thriller rich in both style and substance. "No Country for Old Men" ...
The monsters are back on the big screen, and that's not a good thing in "Alien vs. Predator: Requiem." If you're anything like me, at ...
I definitely have mixed feelings about "Rambo." As an action film, it is intense, loud, and dirty, as Rambo and a gang of mercenaries are ...
A killer is on the loose, and we're all accessories, or so says "Untraceable," a plodding thriller that has a good premise and a decent ...
When was the last time you saw an honest-to-goodness, real old-school ghost story? After watching "El Orphanto" ("The Orphanage"), I realized it had been quite ...
Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) isn't your typical stuffed-suit, dyed-in-the-wool politician. He drinks excessively, womanizes, and hangs out in limos and hot tubs with strippers doing ...
Floors creak. Doors slam. Hidden passages lead to secret compartments. Ratty old dolls show up out of nowhere. Are these playful signs from the children ...
Estranged brother and sister Jon and Wendy Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney) are screwed-up and self-absorbed, but they certainly seem realistic. Sometimes they're ...
Gene Dekker (Danny Dyer) pulls up to a stoplight, snuggling with his bride-to-be. A car full of yobs pulls up next to him; a few ...
I have never wanted to vomit more in my whole life. And I don't mean that in a good way. What else can I say ...
Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There" is a kaleidoscopic reflection on the life and music of Bob Dylan. The movie is not so much a biography ...
A terrific film from Werner Herzog, "inspired" by the true story of a pilot who was shot down in Laos at the outset of the ...
This may only be my quirky way of thinking, but if you wanted to move through the world as an invisible hit man responsible for ...
Some of the best thrillers begin at the end. Billy Wilder's dark classic "Sunset Boulevard" starts with the film's narrator talking in voiceover as his ...
In some ways, "P2" reminds me of the fantastic 2005 flick "Hard Candy." It's mostly a two-person show, a man and a woman, in an ...
Then She Found Me
Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt makes her directorial debut with "Then She Found Me," in which she also stars and receives a writing credit. It's no ...