Movie Reviews
Son of Rambow
"Son of Rambow" is filled with small surprises and treasures, a veritable bounty of delight. It perfectly captures the innocent, whimsical joys of boyhood, and it does this in the simplest possible way: by being innocent and whimsical itself. When th...
Iron Man
Score one for the underdogs: "Iron Man" is certainly not the most well-known or beloved title in the Marvel comic book canon, yet the film adaptation proves to be as plucky, as confident, and as polished as if it were the keystone. If it lacks a litt...
Then She Found Me
Someone tells a joke at the beginning of "Then She Found Me" that's meant to be indicative of Jewish humor: more wry than funny, and with a sharp bit of truth behind it. The joke is about trust issues, and so is the movie, which was directed by Helen...
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
It's easy to see how Harold and Kumar, the merry stoners last seen looking for a White Castle, could be mistaken for terrorists. One is Middle-Eastern-looking and one is Korean (North Korean???). They are fanatical and devoted, albeit to marijuana an...
Baby Mama
If we cannot agree that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are two of the funniest women in television, then we have nothing to say to each other. But I know there are people who hate them, who think they ruined "Saturday Night Live," who automatically despise...
Standard Operating Procedure (documentary)
Errol Morris is the best documentary filmmaker currently working, maybe the best ever, with a body of work unparalleled in its editorial incisiveness and cinematic elegance. Heck, his "Thin Blue Line" led directly to a criminal case being reopened an...
The Life Before Her Eyes
Vadim Perelman, the director of "The Life Before Her Eyes," has said in interviews that he wants people to know how the movie ends before they see it. I'm not going to grant his wish -- that's not how I roll -- but his attitude is unusual, and not ju...
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Forget the talk about Judd Apatow's laff factory being a sexist boys' club: "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" emphasizes men's failures, not women's. It is men who cry the most in the film, for a variety of reasons, most of them emotional. It is men who ar...
88 Minutes
So here's Al Pacino in yet another mediocre drama, his new stock in trade. "88 Minutes" affords him plenty of opportunities to yell and shoot guns at people, so I guess he's happy. Appearing in a film like this must be the actor's equivalent of eatin...
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (documentary)
A lot of eyes were on Morgan Spurlock to see what he'd do as a follow-up to "Super Size Me," an out-of-nowhere documentary hit that became a cultural phenomenon and actually effected some change in the McDonald's attitude toward healthfulness (though...
The Forbidden Kingdom
Part of the charm of "The Forbidden Kingdom" is that, like so many of the foreign martial-arts films it emulates, the plot is a crazy quilt of random developments, bizarre characters, and absurd proclamations. It begins with a Boston kid being magica...
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (documentary)
"Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" is crap, but it's well-produced crap. I'll give it that. It leads the choir gently by the hand and entertains it with snarky humor before settling in to preach to it.
I don't say the film is crap because I disa...
The Visitor
The bulk of Thomas McCarthy's professional credits are as an actor, mostly minor roles in film and television, including 10 episodes of "The Wire." But where he has made his most indelible mark is as the writer and director of the beloved "Station Ag...
Prom Night
One of the production companies for "Prom Night," a painfully by-the-numbers teen-slasher flick, is an outfit called Original Film. So the movie starts out with a logo that says "ORIGINAL FILM," and I thought: This film's been mislabeled.
Beyond ...
Street Kings
Crime novelist James Ellroy has had several of his stories turned into films, notably "L.A. Confidential" and "The Black Dahlia," but "Street Kings" marks the first time he's written something directly for the screen. Too bad he chose an unoriginal p...
Smart People
With the familiar whiff of tweedy films like "Wonder Boys" and "The Squid and the Whale" emanating from it, "Smart People" smells like the kind of movie that would debut at Sundance and appeal to New Yorker subscribers. And what do you know, that's w...
Young @ Heart (documentary)
It sounds like a cheap gimmick: a senior citizens' choral group that performs covers of rock 'n' roll songs. But the Young @ Heart Chorus is more than a novelty act. As the beautiful and exhilarating documentary "Young @ Heart" shows, the lyrics to f...
My Blueberry Nights
Fans of the acclaimed Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai ("In the Mood for Love," "2046," "Chung King Express") have awaited his latest, "My Blueberry Nights," with what you might call reserved curiosity. It is his English-language debut, and jazz singe...
Leatherheads
If the slick and silly "Leatherheads" is any indication, the time George Clooney spent with the Coen brothers has rubbed off on him. Clooney's third stint in the director's chair is a loopy Roaring Twenties screwball comedy, and much of its wry, slig...
Nim’s Island
"Nim's Island" is a so-so live-action movie that would have been better if it were a cartoon. Animated films inspire a greater suspension of disbelief, and so we aren't bothered by gaping plot holes or (for example) wild animals that respond to compl...
The Ruins
Scott Smith's novel "The Ruins" is a great thriller, with the chills evenly divided between those of a psychological nature and those that are more graphic. The film version, adapted by Smith himself and directed by Carter Smith (no relation), remove...
Flawless
Like so many good heist movies, "Flawless" presents us with a seemingly unsolvable puzzle, lets us stew over it for a while, then solves it for us. The puzzle is of the "How did Person X manage to accomplish Task Y?" variety, and it is indeed a head-...
Chapter 27
John Lennon's murder in 1980 traumatized a generation of Beatles lovers, and the infuriating senselessness of it all resulted in a disproportionate amount of rage being directed at the killer, Mark David Chapman. With the other major assassinations o...
Priceless (French)
Since her fabulous success in "Amelie" in 2001, Audrey Tautou has been unsure how to capitalize on her charm and talent without seeming to replay the same character. She made a few French films, including "A Very Long Engagement," which reunited her ...
21
In "21," an M.I.T. math whiz joins a secret cabal of card-counters who fly to Vegas on the weekends to make a killing at the blackjack tables. That's the hook, the part you might not have seen in a thousand other films. But the rest is as generic as ...
Run Fatboy Run
Though "Run Fatboy Run" is genial and often amusing, I can't help thinking it would have been funnier if a different combination of people had worked on it. Michael Ian Black (the writer), Simon Pegg (the star and co-writer), and David Schwimmer (in ...
Superhero Movie
The best that can be said for "Superhero Movie" is that, despite a lazy title that puts you in the mind of wretched parodies like "Date Movie" and "Epic Movie," it's not nearly as bad as those. It's rather benign, actually -- never very funny, and ne...
Stop-Loss
It's been almost nine years since Kimberly Peirce's breakout film "Boys Don't Cry," so expectations for her new project were bound to run high. Alas, she doesn't do herself any favors with the self-serious, emotionally hollow "Stop-Loss." Why would s...
Drillbit Taylor
Here it is, the first major sign of weakness in the Judd Apatow comedy juggernaut: "Drillbit Taylor," a cluttered and clueless effort produced by Apatow, co-written by Seth Rogen ("Superbad"), and featuring barely a whiff of the raucous-but-intellige...
Meet the Browns
Well, it took five tries, but Tyler Perry has finally made a good movie. Not a great movie, and not a movie without its flaws, but a good one nonetheless. This is something that, like a colony on the moon, many scientists believed we would not see in...
Shutter
I don't feel like talking about "Shutter," which is this week's bad remake of an Asian horror film, so instead I'm going to tell you why critics won't like it but regular audiences will.
The primary reason for the frequent disconnect between criti...
Funny Games
The purpose of "Funny Games" is to provoke and disturb the audience. It does this so well that you may not be able to watch it -- a curious thing for a filmmaker to shoot for, but hey, that's the Austrians for you.
Michael Haneke already made this...
Doomsday
British filmmaker Neil Marshall earned a legion of new fans with 2005's "The Descent," a genuinely scary flick that put me, for one, off spelunking forever. And for his next act? An energetic but derivative apocalyptic adventure that Rogue Pictures h...
Horton Hears a Who!
Yes! At last! This is how you make a good Jim Carrey comedy -- by leaving his forced physical mania behind and including only his voice! "Horton Hears a Who!" succeeds where previous Dr. Seuss adaptations have fallen short, most notably by using anim...
Never Back Down
If you combined "The Karate Kid" with "Fight Club," then threw in a dash of "The O.C." and "You Got Served," then beat it with a stick until it was really stupid, you'd have something twice as smart as "Never Back Down." The very height of teen-orien...
Super High Me (documentary)
Ah, marijuana. Is there anything funnier? If your answer is either "no" or "What was the question?," then Doug Benson is the comedian for you. His pot documentary "Super High Me" follows his efforts to abstain from ganja for a month, followed by 30 d...
At the Death House Door (documentary)
On the subject of the death penalty, there are reasonable arguments to be made on both sides. But even those who support capital punishment in theory must concede that it’s perilously difficult to administer it in practice. It’s only defensible if th...
Yeast
It’s risky to make a film with only three characters. If the audience dislikes even one of them, that’s 33 percent of the ensemble gone. In the case of “Yeast,” a three-person mumblecore debacle by Mary Bronstein, I hate all three of them. How am I s...
Up With Me
"Up With Me" is proof that you can make a good film out of old ideas. All it takes is a different approach, some reinvention to give the familiar themes a new twist. In fact, the only real shortcomings in "Up With Me" occur when the film tries too ha...
The Lost Coast
As Jasper, the narrator and protagonist of "The Lost Coast," begins to describe the events of Halloween night, he says, "We found a dead body -- but more on that later." You know it's an eventful night when discovering a corpse isn't even the lead st...
Wellness
I get the feeling "Wellness" is supposed to be an awkward, sad comedy about a hapless fellow who just can't catch a break. The problem, then, is that it's rarely actually funny, and the story of the poor guy who can't catch a break is bleak and depre...
College Road Trip
"College Road Trip" stars Martin Lawrence, Raven-Symone, Donny Osmond, and a pig. Want to guess which one gives the most convincing performance? I'll give you a hint: it's the one who's chubby, fuzzy, and has a cute pink tail. That's right, Raven-Sym...
10,000 BC
If you watch "10,000 BC" and are disappointed or surprised by how bad it is, then I have to say, with all due respect, that you're a moron. It was written and directed by Roland Emmerich, the man who made "Independence Day," "Godzilla," "The Patriot,...
The Bank Job
"The Bank Job" is one of the most generic film titles I've ever heard, and for a while it looks like the movie is going to live up to that standard of ordinariness with a well-worn story about a crew of London bank thieves. But then a trove of unfore...
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
As light and pleasant as a summer breeze and almost as weightless, "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" is a screwball comedy set in London during the Great Depression. England is on the brink of war with Germany, breadlines stretch around the block -- a...
Snow Angels
No one ever talks about the weather in "Snow Angels." The film is set in a quaint, ordinary Pennsylvania town, the kind of place where frozen ponds and high snow banks seem like a permanent part of the landscape. The locals are used to it. The cold m...
Penelope
"Penelope" stars Christina Ricci as a woman cursed by a witch to be born with a giant forehead. No! I kid. She's cursed with a pig-like snout. The forehead is all Ricci.
Now that the unfair cheap shots are out of the way, I'll tell you that "Pene...
The Other Boleyn Girl
"The Other Boleyn Girl" pretends to be a serious historical romance, but it's really just a bodice-ripper, a cheap Harlequin paperback dressed up in frilly clothes. Imagine skit night at the Renaissance Faire and you'll have a pretty good idea of wha...
Semi-Pro
Will Ferrell doesn't bring much to "Semi-Pro" that he hasn't brought to his other starring vehicles. His character, Jackie Moon -- the owner/coach/starting forward of the 1976 Flint (Michigan) Tropics basketball team -- is a cocky, self-important man...
Chicago 10
It was 40 years ago that the Democratic National Convention in Chicago became the site of riots, demonstrations, and protests, almost none of it related to the candidates or the presidency. It makes the current battle for the Democratic nomination lo...
The Signal
You don't often see horror movies as scary, nor comedies as funny, as "The Signal." Bearing an unfortunate (and apparently coincidental) resemblance to Stephen King's novel "The Cell," it might be dismissed as a clone, but make no mistake: The execut...
Vantage Point
I'll tell you up front that I love movies that show multiple perspectives of the same event, and I love movies that mess around with timelines. When a film shows something, then jumps back in time to show it again from a different point of view, I am...
Charlie Bartlett
An acquaintance of mine loves the movie "Rushmore" so much that he was mortally offended by "Charlie Bartlett," which borrows most of its plot and a lot of its tone. While I can see his point, and while I would caution any hardcore "Rushmore" devotee...
Witless Protection
The low point of Larry The Cable Guy's "Witless Protection" comes when Larry tries to check into a small motel. The proprietor is a Middle Eastern man who speaks in backward Yoda language. "Pay with card credit you must!" he says. (Really, Larry The ...
The Counterfeiters (German)
It's a foregone conclusion that a film about the Holocaust can usually pick up an Oscar or two, but it would be unfair to dismiss this year's foreign-language winner as having benefited solely from that bit of Academy-voter shorthand. While "The Coun...
In Bruges
I have long admired the Irish playwright Martin McDonagh for his bleak, darkly comic works, in no small part because almost every one of them features, in full view of the audience, at least one act of unspeakable violence. There is something viscera...
Diary of the Dead
George Romero's obsession with zombies has made him the undisputed godfather of undead cinema. His "Night of the Living Dead" defined the genre 40 years ago and spawned countless imitators, and while some of those pretenders have done well, you can a...
Step Up 2 the Streets
Most sequels are unnecessary, but "Step Up 2 the Streets" takes it to a new level. It is a follow-up to the 2006 hit "Step Up," and that film's star, Channing Tatum, does appear in one scene to pass the torch. But other than that, it's no more connec...
The Spiderwick Chronicles
After the overcooked bombast of "The Golden Compass" and the slapdash carelessness of "The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising," "The Spiderwick Chronicles" is a pleasant, lightweight treat. Like those other films, it's a young adult fantasy story based on a ...
Jumper
Add "Jumper" to the list of movies with nifty premises that are squandered by a sloppy, rushed execution. Based apparently rather loosely on Steven Gould's 1992 novel, it's about a young man who can teleport himself anywhere in the world, who is purs...
Definitely, Maybe
As regular readers may have noticed, my chief complaint about romantic comedies is that they tend to follow the same template, with no variation from the usual plotline. This puts me at odds with many members of the target audience, who view the genr...
Fool’s Gold
It's uncanny what an apt title "Fool's Gold" is for this ludicrous mess of a movie. Fool's gold, of course, is a shiny, worthless substance mistaken for gold. The movie by that name appears to be a romantic comedy (maybe even a good one!), but is act...
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
The high incidence of film-critic suicides in the months of January and February is attributable to movies like "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins," a rancid, unfunny disaster full of embarrassing performances and shamefully simple-minded comic notions. It...
Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa (documentary)
The 400 or so people who live on "The Mesa" -- a 15-square-mile area of New Mexico without water or electricity -- have moved there for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, the documentary about them, "Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa," starts by showi...
The Trap (Serbo-Croatian)
"The Trap" is an ominous title for an ominous movie. Using the American film noir as a template, this Serbian production injects quiet contemplation of moral dilemmas into the genre. It's like a deep and thoughtful version of "Double Indemnity."
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The White Silk Dress (Vietnamese)
I'm grateful for movies like "The White Silk Dress" because they offer insight into a country and culture that I don't otherwise have much contact with. This film, Vietnam's submission for the foreign-language category at the Oscars, wades through so...
Strange Wilderness
I would say that "Strange Wilderness" tries to be stupid and succeeds at it, except that I don't think anyone involved really "tried" very hard to do anything. This is a lazy film, lazily written, lazily edited, lazily released. Its final scene ends ...
The Eye (2008)
At the risk of damning it with faint praise, "The Eye" is one of the less awful horror remakes in recent years. The source material, a 2002 Hong Kong thriller, is far more effective, but this American retread doesn't embarrass itself too deeply, the ...
Over Her Dead Body
All hail Paul Rudd! You give him something lukewarm like "Over Her Dead Body" and he'll enliven it with charming sarcasm and impeccable comedic instincts. Of course, he has Eva Longoria working hard to undermine everything he does, flopping around fr...
Caramel (Arabic)
You wouldn't give "Caramel" a second thought if it were an American film. It's a cute and unsubstantive light comedy about a group of women who work at a beauty parlor, with particular emphasis on their romantic lives; it's basically the Lebanese equ...
How She Move
"How She Move" is a stupid title, obviously, and no reason for its ungrammaticality is given within the film itself. Which is a shame, since the movie, an indie production from Canada that played at Sundance last year, is rather good, despite its non...
Teeth
Monsters, demons, and ax-wielding maniacs are fine for most horror movies. But "Teeth" knows that if you really want to terrify male adolescents, you should capitalize on something they're already afraid of in real life: the vagina.
From the warp...
Rambo
Sylvester Stallone's "Rocky Balboa" was an elegantly suitable requiem for a beloved character. His "Rambo," on the other hand, is very clearly a cynical cash-grab, made not because he had some good ideas for the character but because he wanted to cap...
Meet the Spartans
When the comedy revolution comes, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer will be the first ones shot. They are the talentless, incompetent boobs who wrote and directed "Date Movie," "Epic Movie," and now "Meet the Spartans," a desperate and underdone paro...
Untraceable
In 1995, when Sandra Bullock appeared in "The Net," the World Wide Web was new enough that audiences could be creeped out by the film's techno-paranoia. In 2008, when Diane Lane is starring in "Untraceable," the idea of being afraid of the Internet's...
27 Dresses
"27 Dresses" makes the bold decision to focus on a character who flatly refuses to speak up for herself or express her feelings. It's possible to craft an engaging story around such an indecisive figure -- "Hamlet" comes to mind -- but it's not easy,...
Cloverfield
The film-it-yourself YouTube generation has inspired its first monster movie in "Cloverfield," a short, intense, and scary flick that plays out the way "Godzilla" would have if it had been shot with a bystander's camcorder.
That is the central co...
Mad Money
"Mad Money" plays like the chick-flick version of "Ocean's Eleven," with the emotional stakes played up and the logistics of the heist played down. It's men who are most interested in gadgets and technicalities, after all; women prefer films about re...
Cassandra’s Dream
Woody Allen is 72 years old, and "Cassandra's Dream" is his 38th theatrical feature, yet it's alive with energy and ideas, not to mention good old-fashioned suspense and tragedy. It plays like a milder version of "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" ...
Falling
The Bible asks, "What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" Eric Boyle, the protagonist in Richard Dutcher's profoundly unsettling new film "Falling," has gotten the short end of the stick: He's lost his soul ...
Beaufort (Hebrew)
Beaufort Castle is an ancient fortress in southern Lebanon that came under Israeli control at the start of the 1982 Lebanon War, and stayed that way until Israel abandoned it in 2000. The film "Beaufort," an Oscar nominee in the foreign-language cate...
American Son
You’d be excused for feeling skeptical about Nick Cannon appearing in a serious drama about a Marine about to be shipped off to Iraq. And if knowing it’s from Neil Abramson -- director of the Jerry Springer trainwreck "Ringmaster" – turns you off alt...
The Recruiter (documentary)
How’s this for a job: Your assignment is to persuade people to join an organization that is definitely going to send them into a war zone, where there is every chance they will be killed. And you thought being a telemarketer was tough!
"An America...
Slingshot Hip Hop (documentary; Arabic)
When you hear that "Slingshot Hip Hop" is a documentary about Palestinian rap groups, you probably have the same thought I had: What, that old subject again? Why can’t filmmakers come up with something original?
Just kidding. One of the joys of a ...
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North (documentary)
YouTube's popularity notwithstanding, it is not true that just because you have filmed something means that other people will want to see it. The documentary "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North" is a prime example of someone making a fi...
Secrecy (documentary)
Government secrecy: good or bad? Whatever your gut answer is, the issue is a thorny one. "Secrecy," a sharply produced, thought-provoking documentary by Peter Galison and Robb Moss, presents talking heads who make compelling arguments on both sides. ...
First Sunday
Tyler Perry's success with church-going black audiences may not have earned him much credit in mainstream Hollywood yet, but it has gotten him something else: imitators. As if Perry's own films weren't bad enough, now we have to contend with ill-bego...
One Missed Call
Remember that period a few years ago where it seemed like every movie at the multiplex was a PG-13 remake of a Japanese horror flick? Well, if you thought that trend was over, you were wrong. DEAD WRONG.
"One Missed Call" is the latest, based on ...
The Orphanage (Spanish)
If you ever find yourself in Spain, do not visit any orphanages, for they are all haunted. Guillermo del Toro has taught us this, first by directing the chilling "Devil's Backbone" and now by producing something simply called "The Orphanage," which i...
There Will Be Blood
We get to know early-20th-century oilman Daniel Plainview pretty well over the course of "There Will Be Blood's" 2 1/2 hour running time, and there's no question that blood is important to him, in both its literal and metaphorical senses. He's willin...
The Water Horse
"The Water Horse" is set on the banks of Loch Ness, and it's about a reptilian creature that lives in the lake and becomes famous, and someone stages a photo that turns out looking exactly like the iconic picture of the Loch Ness Monster -- yet the m...
The Great Debaters
"The Great Debaters" is Oprah-produced, Oprah-approved, and Oprah-endorsed. Oprah, people! If you think I'm going to criticize an Oprah movie, you're crazy. She's all-powerful. She will cut you.
It's a perfectly respectable drama, made from the I...
The Bucket List
"The Bucket List" is a cheery cancer comedy with a drippy tearjerker ending, which might not sound like fun to you, but I bet your parents will love it. It's the kind of movie that people's parents love. It has just enough vulgarity to make undiscern...
Persepolis (French)
"Persepolis" is essentially a coming-of-age story, though that description feels a little reductive for a movie as special as this one. It is the memoir of Marjane Strapi, an Iranian woman who was born in 1969 and underwent the travails of adolescenc...
The Kite Runner
"The Kite Runner" might be the year's best example of a well-meaning movie that doesn't have anything significantly wrong with it -- it just doesn't have anything significantly right with it, either. Anemically directed by Marc Forster ("Monster's Ball," "Finding Neverland") and adapted from Khaled Hosseini's bestselling novel, the story is set first in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1978, where a rich boy named Amir is best friends with his servant's son Hassan. Amir fails to prevent harm from befalling Hassan and never forgives himself for his act of cowardice. Years later, the grown-up Amir -- now a successful writer living in the United States -- seeks to redeem himself by returning to the Taliban-run Afghanistan and helping Hassan's family. Forster's chief mistake is toning down the unsettling plot elements and glossing up the overall picture, inadvertently muting the emotional impact in the process. Still, the flaws aren't great enough to make it unwatchable, or even "bad." It's the kind of film whose major accomplishment is to make you think, "Wow, the book is probably really good. I should have stayed home and read it."
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
If you walked out of "National Treasure" three years ago thinking, "OK, that was kind of fun but it sure was ridiculous," then I'm here to tell you, you ain't seen nothin' yet. The sequel, "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," is twice as ridiculous ...
P.S. I Love You
Hilary Swank doesn't usually play girlie roles, and the unabashed chick flick "P.S. I Love You" demonstrates why: She's not very girlie. The film even casts Kathy Bates as her mom; I kept expecting them to put on some denim jackets and head down to Home Depot. Swank plays what obviously should have been the Sandra Bullock part, a woman named Holly whose dead husband (Gerard Butler) sends her love letters from beyond the grave (written when he learned he was dying) to help her move on with her life. Lisa Kudrow and Gina Gershon earn a few laughs as Holly's friends, and Harry Connick Jr. has a nice turn as a bartender with no filter on his brain (just like Sophia on "The Golden Girls"!). Even Swank, if not exactly a delicate, feminine heroine, exhibits some charming lightheartedness here and there. But director Richard LaGravenese (adapting Cecelia Ahern's novel) seems content to let the film be nothing more than a generically competent, mildly diverting girls' night out. Being a C student is fine if that's all you can do, but shouldn't you at least try to do better?
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
I devoutly believe Stephen Sondheim is the greatest songwriter in the history of musical theater (note I do not say "most hummable"), and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" is one of his best works, a darkly comic and truly horrifying t...
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
It takes a smart team to make a good spoof. This is evident in the many not-good spoofs that have polluted cineplexes in recent months, simple-minded exercises like "The Comebacks" and "Date Movie" that think referencing something is the same thing a...
Charlie Wilson’s War
"Charlie Wilson's War" is about a liberal congressman who fervently believed America should get involved in a foreign war, and how that decision proved to be the right one. It was written by Hollywood liberal Aaron Sorkin and directed by Hollywood li...
