AMC Sunset Place 24

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...

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...

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...

Death Note: The Last Name

The madness and mayhem continue when a singer tries to impress the first Death Note’s resident folk hero by murdering some bad guys.

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...

Fireproof

The smarmiest aspects of Southern American Protestantism surface in this embarrassingly sincere sermon on the sanctity of matrimony. Caleb (Cameron), a porn-addicted fireman, loses grasp of his...

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...

Igor

Like a pesky little brother, Igor tries to ape the goth cool of Tim Burton’s early films (“Vincent,” “Frankenweenie”). Alas, the choice of mushy John...

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....

My Best Friend's Girl

Meet cute? More like fuck angry. Romcoms don’t get more toxic than this depressing stew of cock jokes, pussy insults and cesspool declarations of love. Self-loathing lothario Tank (Cook) is hired...

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]'

Religulous

The issue isn’t so much whether Bill Maher is fair to the people he interviews in Religulous, his...

Righteous Kill

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

Sex Drive

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 (