REVIEW: Step Up Revolution Pops (and Locks) in 3-D But Turns Out to Be Real Wallflower in the Story…
Although the proliferation of talent shows on TV is proof of just how much audiences have come back around to watching dance on…
REVIEW: Dogme 95 Meets The Hangover in Startlingly Funny Klown
Like so many of the R-rated comedies of Judd Apatow and Todd Phillips, the Danish film Klown is about men behaving amusingly…
REVIEW: The Queen of Versailles Reveals Harsh, Humane Truths About Today's American Dream
It's hard to imagine that the documentary Lauren Greenfield initially set out to make when she started shooting The Queen of…
REVIEW: Ice Age: Continental Drift Hits for Uninspired Blockbuster Average
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted was an unexpectedly charming addition to the summer's kiddie flick franchise pile-up, better…
REVIEW: A Preposterously Talented Cast Enlivens Muddled Red Lights
Red Lights, the new film from Buried director Rodrigo Cortés, weds an earnest, simplified exploration of the nature of faith with…
REVIEW: Rob Reiner Gives Us a Sticky-sweet and Textureless Magic of Belle Isle
What was Rob Reiner's last noteworthy film? Was it Ghosts of Mississippi in 1996? The American President, the year before…
REVIEW: Crazy Eyes Traces the Travails of a Rich, Self-Absorbed, Self-Pitying Angeleno. Do We…
The rich, F. Scott Fitzgerald famously (and much overabusedly) wrote, "are different from you and me," and Crazy Eyes tests just…
REVIEW: Madea's Witness Protection Proves It's Time for Tyler Perry to Hang Up the Dress
With Tyler Perry gradually segueing toward non-drag leading man status with Good Deeds and the upcoming James Patterson…
REVIEW: Take This Waltz Hums to the Conflicts of the Heart
Take This Waltz is an unusually kind film about infidelity -- not because it sidesteps or shortchanges heartbreak, but because it…
REVIEW: Channing Tatum Works His Beefcakey Magic in Magic Mike
Like the world of male stripping it inhabits, Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike is naughty in gaudy but sanctioned and unthreatening…
REVIEW: Tough, Devastating The Invisible War Takes on Rape in the Military
It's hard to know exactly how to review something like The Invisible War, how to step back and look at it as a movie through the…
REVIEW: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Falters With Forced Romance
If the world were ending imminently — say, in three weeks — would you throw off the shackles of social confines and indulge in…
REVIEW: That's My Boy Would Be Good Raunchy Fun, If Not for One Fatal Flaw
To say that That's My Boy is a step up from the recent output of Adam Sandler and his company Happy Madison Productions really is…
REVIEW: Todd Solondz Spins a Tale of an Unlovable But Compelling Loser in Dark Horse
Dark Horse is a romance and a comedy in the way that Titanic is a movie about a boat trip. The latest film from Todd Solondz…
REVIEW: Aubrey Plaza Brings Sardonic Solidity to Safety Not Guaranteed
Aubrey Plaza might just be the anti-manic pixie dream girl, the gloriously glowering inverse of that giddy, whimsical creation…