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Appaloosa

It ain’t easy being a lawman in a Western mining town like Appaloosa, home to a slimy rancher named Bragg (Irons). For starters, Bragg just shot three deputies who tried to arrest him,...

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Despite the presence of the Humane Society on set, this Disney romp humiliates its canine cast by imbuing them with the worst kind of anthropomorphism. Why can’t those crazy,...

Blindness

‘The Constant Gardener’ director returns home to direct a version of the Portuguese novelist José Saramango’s ‘unfilmable’ 1990s novel. Another ‘Diving...

Body of Lies

It’s hard to remain a Ridley Scott fan these days. Once a director who could make anything—an Apple computer, a...

Burn After Reading

The Coens return to a lighter, glossier vein with this comedy drama about a missing CIA memoir. George Clooney, Gil Kenan’s scary animated movie ‘Monster House’ acknowledged its young audience’s ability to engage with a surprisingly...

Eagle Eye

Let’s see if your eagle eye is working: After being falsely accused of high crimes (North by Northwest), our heroes find the whole of modern technology turned against them...

Flash of Genius

The invention of the intermittent windshield wiper is hardly cinematic material. The real drama in the story of Robert Kearns—the prickly engineering prof who cracked the circuitry...

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

How To Lose Friends & Alienate People

Conflicted British journo Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) used to poke fun at celebrity culture in his left-field London mag, but, now...

Igor

‘I’d rather be a good nobody than an evil somebody’ is the mantra for this undistinguished animated Frankenstein comedy spin-off. Igor is one of many identical-looking hunchbacks who aid the...

Lakeview Terrace

Though the connection is never mentioned explicitly, Lakeview Terrace is named for the Los Angeles district where Rodney King was beaten in 1991—the natural backdrop...

Max Payne

The popular video game gets a big-screen treatment.

My Best Friend's Girl

Meet cute? More like fuck angry. Romcoms don’t get more toxic than this depressing stew of cock jokes, pussy insults and cesspool declarations of love. Self-loathing lothario Tank (Cook) is hired...

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

An emo cover version of a John Hughes comedy, Peter Sollett’s tale of two music-obsessed teens updates the template...

Nights in Rodanthe

Nicholas Sparks’s novels are to Harlequin romances as international coffees are to Nescafé: Marketed as having a little dash of class, they’re still ersatz java. With the odd...

Psycho

As original, and as personal, as a Warhol screen print, Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of Hitchcock's seminal shocker takes an established text and recontextualises it 38 years on. The choice of...

Quarantine

Once again, gory horrors befall oddly committed videographers—in this case, a TV crew trapped inside a rabies-infected L.A. building swarming with flesh-chompers. Even The Blair Witch...

Religulous

The issue isn’t so much whether Bill Maher is fair to the people he interviews in Religulous, his...

Righteous Kill
In ‘Heat’, they only shared the screen for one all-too-brief scene. Now Al Pacino and Robert De...

The Secret Life of Bees

Dakota Fanning does not get raped in this movie; she’s not even stung by a wasp. But she once again plays, as she...

Sex Drive

“All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun,” wrote Jean-Luc Godard. Sex Drive has both, plus raunch, a 1969 hot-red-orange GTO and