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College

In what any student of Animal House will recognize as a boneheaded move, three prefrosh decide to spend their college visit crashing at a discipline-resistant frat, which...

Death Race

It would take a team of semioticians to explain why Statham is somehow more compelling when obscured by an iron mask. But he is, as “Frankenstein,” this vicious thriller’s Web-celeb racer,...

Disaster Movie

At least the title is partly true: This would-be satire is indeed a disaster. Scary Movie creators Friedberg and Seltzer return to their hit-or-miss formula of bite-sized...

Hamlet 2

Coogan is one of those actors you really want to love. Every clip from his British television work hints that he’s got something to offer. And yet, in his films (Around the...

Sixty Six
Ads director Paul Weiland brought the house down at his fiftieth by recalling the almighty shambles when his Bar Mitzvah fell on...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
In the midst of galactic conflict, someone has kidnapped the infant son of gelatinous gangster Jabba the Hutt, and for complex reasons the Jedi are called in to investigate. If the first ‘Star...

The House Bunny

Faris, last seen through a haze of pot smoke in Smiley Face, plays dizzy dolls as expertly as Lucille Ball and Marilyn Monroe. If Faris’s movies fail her total...

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Here’s ample proof of the unwritten rule that second sequels always suck. This time out, the husband-and-wife adventurers battle an ancient Chinese emperor revived from a curse that turned him...

Pineapple Express

The most acclaimed filmmaker to join the Apatow stable, David Gordon Green has a keen eye for landscapes and a...

The Rocker

About as edgy as a Jonas Brothers concert, this harmless homage to ’80s hair bands and 21st-century emo teenyboppers is wholesome in its debauchery and good-natured in its...

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Adapted from Cannes 2008 Film Festival Diary
Woody Allen