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Appaloosa

It ain’t easy being a lawman in a Western mining town like Appaloosa, home to a slimy rancher named Bragg (Irons). For starters, Bragg just shot three deputies who tried to arrest him,...

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...

City of Ember

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

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...

Flash of Genius

The invention of the intermittent windshield wiper is hardly cinematic material. The real drama in the story of Robert Kearns—the prickly engineering prof who cracked the circuitry...

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...

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

Once again, gory horrors befall oddly committed videographers—in this case, a TV crew trapped inside a rabies-infected L.A. building swarming with flesh-chompers. Even The Blair Witch...

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...