Randy and the Mob
This Southern-fried comedy, directed by and starring Ray McKinnon, is a flat-footed take on the suburban Southern gentleman in disrepair.
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Marc Savlov, Oct. 19, 2007
Things We Lost in the Fire
This film starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro is an impeccably constructed and perfectly paced drama of domestic and internal volatility.
Josh Rosenblatt, Oct. 19, 2007
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?
The creative powerhouse known as Tyler Perry is back in front of and behind the camera with this predictable film about four married couples.
Toddy Burton, Oct. 19, 2007
Into the Wild
Sean Penn adapts Jon Krakauer's bestselling mystery adventure to the screen with frequently stunning but ultimately unsatisfactory results.
Josh Rosenblatt, Oct. 19, 2007
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
This week Milestone is releasing the director's edition on DVD for the first time, complete with 10 minutes of previously unseen footage, and even with no other extras to speak of, it's a cause for celebration
Josh Rosenblatt, Oct. 19, 2007
Rendition
Intelligent and well-meaning, Rendition is nevertheless an oversimplified and uneven attempt to arouse righteous indignation among its viewers.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Oct. 19, 2007
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
More than an appreciation, this documentary portrait of the great American folksinger and activist is an inspiration.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Oct. 19, 2007
Vanaja
Unlike the Bollywood films most mainstream audiences expect from India, Vanaja operates on a far more realistic level, with the added bonus of a melodramatic story that's a real heartbreaker.
Marc Savlov, Oct. 12, 2007
Lust, Caution
The NC-17-rated passion in Ang Lee's movie is at distinct odds with the chilly film that surrounds its lovers.
Marc Savlov, Oct. 12, 2007
Feel the Noise
In this overstuffed movie, an aspiring Harlem rapper finds his artistic calling and homeland pride with Puerto Rico's reggaeton.
Josh Rosenblatt, Oct. 12, 2007
The Darjeeling Limited
Wes Anderson boards another train of ironic whimsy, although this time the train is quite literal and not just the train of thought in his head.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Oct. 12, 2007
Broken
Heather Graham is an L.A. transplant whose dreams of a music career become soiled by her relationship with her junkie boyfriend, played by Jeremy Sisto.
Marc Savlov, Oct. 12, 2007
The Final Season
A small-town high school baseball team is put to the test in this emphatically inspirational mess.
Toddy Burton, Oct. 12, 2007
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I is back for seconds in this melodramatic sequel that emphasizes how the Virgin Queen lusted in her heart.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Oct. 12, 2007
King of California
Michael Douglas plays a wild-eyed dreamer who sways his daughter and friend into digging clandestinely for treasure underneath a California superstore.
Toddy Burton, Oct. 12, 2007
We Own the Night
Joaquin Phoenix is dynamic, Mark Wahlberg subdued, and Robert Duvall trusty in this otherwise redundant story about brothers on opposite sides of the law.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Oct. 12, 2007
Michael Clayton
This smart and thoroughly entertaining film asks the question of where a lawyer’s ethical responsibility to zealously represent a client ends and the societal interest in achieving justice begins.
Steve Davis, Oct. 12, 2007
Feast of Love
Robert Benton directs this Oregon-set meditation on the permutations of love among a constellation of characters.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Oct. 5, 2007
Weirdsville
Weirdsville accomplishes something that is rare for Canadian-made comedies: It's actually funny.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Oct. 5, 2007
The Heartbreak Kid
Ben Stiller stars in this smart and winning remake of a 1972 Neil Simon-penned comedy about a man who falls in love with another woman on his honeymoon.
Marc Savlov, Oct. 5, 2007
The Jane Austen Book Club
Though it’s as estrogenic as dong quai, this amiable film about six friends and their book club is thoughtfully rendered with a certain universality of spirit.
Marrit Ingman, Oct. 5, 2007
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
This fantasy film, adapted from Susan Cooper's series of novels, is utterly devoid of anything but bombastically simplistic notions.
Marc Savlov, Oct. 5, 2007
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin wrote, directed, and stars in this endearing schlub-in-Chicago movie that features contributions from Sarah Silverman, Bonnie Hunt, and other comic performers.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Sept. 28, 2007
Stranger Than Paradise
When it was first released in 1984, Jim Jarmusch's tale of three lost souls going nowhere was a revelation – a dry-as-the-desert revelation in black and white, or rather gray and lighter gray
Josh Rosenblatt, Sept. 28, 2007
The Kingdom
Initially, The Kingdom seems like it might be another of this season's politically charged movies, but it actually plays more like an explosive episode of CSI: Riyadh.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Sept. 28, 2007
December Boys
In his first film role post-Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe plays an orphan in Australia who's pals with a bunch of other boys born in December.
Marc Savlov, Sept. 28, 2007
Resident Evil: Extinction
Milla Jovovich continues to fight zombies and the apocalypse.
Marc Savlov, Sept. 28, 2007
Across the Universe
Julie Taymor takes the timelessness of the Beatles' music and yanks it earthward into a minefield of literalism.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Sept. 28, 2007
The Game Plan
The Rock plays a quarterback whose life is altered by the daughter he didn't know he had.
Josh Rosenblatt, Sept. 28, 2007
Outsourced
When a Seattle man is transferred to India due to outsourcing, he overcomes his aversion and becomes the eventual poster boy for immersing, life-altering travel.
