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City of Ember

Gil Kenan’s scary animated movie ‘Monster House’ acknowledged its young audience’s ability to engage with a surprisingly...

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...

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 – Simon Pegg) used to poke fun at celebrity culture in his left-field London mag, but, now...

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 Morel (‘The Transporter’), ‘Taken’ is a...

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

The son of a Nazi officer befriends a concentration camp inmate in this harrowing, inspiring drama.

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 Mutant Chronicles

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....

WALL-E

Lonely cleaning robot Wall-e is the last sentient being on Planet Earth, now an intergalactic waste disposal site. But one night a gleaming ship appears, whisking Wall-e away on a dizzying...