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All the King's Men (2006, 120 min., PG-13)

Despite an A-list cast and director, it's astonishing how bad this movie is.

All the Pretty Horses (2000, 117 min., R)

This much-storied and long-in-the-making film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's widely cherished Western novel is neither the sacrilege that McCarthy's true believers feared nor the epiphany for which fans of the Western film genre had hoped. Instead, ...

All the Real Girls (2003, 108 min., R)

There’s a Silver Jews song called "Inside the Golden Days of Missing You" that laments the twin states of getting over love and getting over getting over love: "and then the feeling fades away, but you ...

All the Vermeers in New York (1990, 87 min.)

This newest work from steadfast American independent filmmaker, Jon Jost, almost breaks out of his arthouse ghetto and into markedly familiar movie strategies like narrative and performance, making this his most engaging merger of experimental and ...

Allegiance (2012, 91 min., R)

Bow Wow plays a National Guard soldier who goes AWOL in the early Nineties in this unfoused drama

All's Faire in Love (2011, 104 min., PG-13)

Christina Ricci stars in this strained romantic comedy set in the world of renaissance festivals.

Almost Famous (2000, 122 min., R)

This sweet, amiable, and knowing coming-of-age tale is Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical boyz-to-men story about how he grew into the role of a rock & roll journalist in 1973.

Almost Heroes (1998, 92 min., PG-13)

Oh, bitter irony! Christopher Guest, the great satirist of crap artists (he wrote or co-wrote This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, and The Big Picture)) has joined their ranks. And he can't even blame it ...

Alone in the Dark (2005, 96 min., R)

There's a certain majesty to German director Boll's style of filmmaking: a freedom from art, talent, skill of any formal kind, and the sheer pigheadedness to keep going at any cost.

Along Came a Spider (2001, 104 min., R)

Much like its predecessor, 1997's Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider is an efficient, if overly mechanized, delivery system of thrills 'n' chills, classed up by some narrative sleight of hand and the rock-solid performance ...

Along Came Polly (2004, 90 min., PG-13)

Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston date and become more than just friends.

Alpha and Omega (2010, 88 min., PG)

This 3-D animated film is about two wolves trying to find their way back to their pack.

Alpha Dog (2007, 115 min., R)

It’s a soggy true-crime drama – too serious to be trashy, too trashy to be serious.

Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007, 92 min., PG)

What's it all about, Alvin? This by-the-numbers attempt at a chipmunk revival is not bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011, 87 min., G)

We're wondering if anyone will call the ASPCA if we leave these animated rodents chipwrecked far from civilization.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009, 88 min., PG)

Alvin, Simon, and Theodore have good reason to squeak: Girl chipmunks enter the picture.

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2002, 103 min., NR)

(This Chronicle review is reprinted from an earlier screening of the film at the Austin Film Festival 2002.) The history of apartheid in South Africa is an ugly story, but one that needs to be told. ...

Amateur (1994, 105 min., R)

A Hal Hartley film is an acquired taste. A viewer can slip in and out of appreciation for Hartley's work, but it takes a true Hartley-ite to champion all of his films without pause. With Amateur, ...

Amazing Grace (2007, 111 min., PG)

Unfortunately, what makes British abolitionist William Wilberforce a great man is also what makes him dull: his single-minded righteousness.

The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995)

How about The Boring Panda Adventure? Or maybe The Formulaic Disney Ripoff? Either one is a more apt title for this tired retread of Uncle Walt's past nature-in-jeopardy vehicles. When 10-year-old Ryan Tyler (Slater) is invited ...

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012, 137 min., PG-13)

The Amazing Spider-Meh might be a better name for this dullish retread.

Amazon (1990, R)

The Amazon River Basin -- seething with life, death, corruption and rebirth -- has always been easy food for filmmakers, and though this new film is about as far as one can get from recent, guilt-heavy ...

The Ambassador (2011, 93 min., NR)

With daring, gonzo filmmaking, this documentary film penetrates the blood-diamond trade in the Central African Republic.

Amelia (2009, 111 min., PG)

Hilary Swank stars as Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair's big-budget biopic.

Amélie (2001, 122 min., R)

Why not get happy? Why not celebrate love, and little twists of fate, and a sepia-in-Technicolor portrait of Paris? Amélie's heart is in the right place – squarely on its sleeve. And what better place for it?

Amen. (2002, 132 min., NR)

Firebrand filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Missing) turns his lens upon the Holocaust, examining the conditions that allowed the mass exterminations of Jews to continue in virtually full view of the world. This is the story of Lt. Kurt ...

America: Freedom to Fascism (2006, 105 min., NR)

Although grounded in Libertarian theory, this documentary by producer-turned-director Aaron Russo presents provocative material about the perceived illegality of income taxes – and various freedom-restricting consequences of the new world order.

America's Sweethearts (2001, 100 min., PG-13)

Former Disney Chairman Joe Roth takes the directing helm with this bitchy romantic comedy, and wouldn't you know it, it's better than half the chipper fare out there these days. Admittedly, that's not saying much, but ...

American Beauty (1999, 118 min., R)

This Oscar winner is a bleak comedy of suburban mores and one man's sudden rejection of the arrangement.

American Buffalo (1996, 87 min., R)

Notes from a Business 101 course taught by David Mamet: The two most important principles in any transaction are: (1) Fuck the other guy; and (2) Piss on him after. At least, that's what I imagine ...
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