AMC Pine Square 16

An American Carol

Watching Michael Moore get bitch-slapped by JFK is one of the few redeeming pleasures in Zucker’s right-wing comedy, which reduces humor to a patriotic duty and claims to be wildly irreverent...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Miracle at St. Anna

Of all Spike Lee’s considerable gifts, it’s his ear for dialogue that’s best served him through a spotty ten years....

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...

Quarantine

US remake of ace Spanish horror film '[Rec]'

Righteous Kill

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

The Express

The inspirational-sports-movie template seems capable of absorbing almost any set of facts and coming out with the same basic uplift. Take the case of Ernie Davis, the first...

Tyler Perry's the Family That Preys

A mother’s best intentions don’t guarantee that her child will turn out well. “There are always outside influences,” as Alice (Woodard) says, and as her best friend, Charlotte (Bates),...