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Baby Mama

As a recent Vanity Fair cover had to remind us, women are funny—never mind that this is the same magazine that also published Christopher Hitchens’s crazy screed...

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...

Drona

Bollywood’s ‘Harry Potter meets Indiana Jones’ is a fantastic failure. Adi (Bachchan) is unaware of his superhero powers as he sings a song in an unnamed Eastern European city. When the camp...

Happy-Go-Lucky

Sally Hawkins is a real delight in Mike Leigh’s new...

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...

Kidnap

Mean and lean Kabir (Khan) does something terrible (see title) to Sonia (Lamba) the skimpily-clad teenage daughter of Vikrant (Dutt), a millionaire Indian businessman. Dutiful dad and kiddie...

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 BrosnanPierre Salvadori’s Priceless, and it’s not even...

Righteous Kill

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

Taken

Written by ‘Leon’ director Luc Besson and directed by Pierre Morel (‘The Transporter’), ‘Taken’ is a...

The Women

Diane English’s abysmal remake of George Cukor’s 1939 femme classic will have fans of the original growing claws....

Tropic Thunder

Attention, fans of Pineapple Express: Here’s the real transgressive comedy of the summer—more or less Stiller’s version of The Last Movie....