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Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

The latest from Gurinder Chadha, the director of ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ and ‘Bride & Prejudice’ is a coming-of-age...

Babylon A.D.

Adapted from Maurice C Dantec’s cult 1999 novel ‘Babylon Babies’, this post-apocalyptic sci-fi film began life as un film de Mathieu KassovitzNicolas Cage stars a hit man who develops a crisis of conscience in the Pang brothers' remake of their 1999 film.

The Dark Knight

Nolan’s sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins internalizes the schism between serious aims and summer-movie duties. The problem isn’t the admittedly jaw-dropping Sturm...

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...

Flashbacks of a Fool

In a scene reminiscent of the ending of Robert Altman’s ‘The Long Goodbye’ – where Sterling Hayden’s suicidal writer strolls out into the sea from his Malibu house – Guillermo del Toro’s Fabergé egg of a fairytale is not so much a sequel as a fusion of the fabulist imagination of...

Kung Fu Panda

Kicks, punches, pratfalls, head smacks, tumbles and free falls galore: A parade of pain dominates Kung Fu Panda, which forgoes the rigors of character development for...

Mamma Mia!

Throughout the screening of ‘Mamma Mia!’ I kept clocking the security guard in the corner. What was he thinking, I wondered, as Pierce BrosnanGuy RitchieWill Ferrell is 41. Assessing his emotional age from comedy to comedy is also fairly easy:...

The Duchess

If you’ve seen the posters for ‘The Duchess’, you’ll know that they recall the marital woes of another Spencer, Princess Diana, born two centuries after Georgiana (Luc Jacquet’s ‘The Fox and the Child’, his semi-autobiographical follow-up to ‘March of the Penguins’, is structured...

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 Strangers

To paraphrase H.P. Lovecraft, terror comes from the anticipation of intense fear, while horror is what happens when such promises are delivered upon. Writer-director Jonathan LevineAidan Quinn as he sends his brat daughter Adam Sandler movie could bring peace to the Middle East, and this baggy, shoddily FX’d star vehicle—the story of...