Iraq in Fragments
This multiaward-winning documentary was two years in the making and tells stories about modern Iraq in the words of civilians of various ethnicities.
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Marrit Ingman, March 9, 2007
300
Both Frank Miller's comic about the legendary battle of Thermopylae and Zack Snyder's cinematic adaptation are bloodthirsty affairs, awash in spectacle.
Marc Savlov, March 9, 2007
The Number 23
Joel Schumacher and Jim Carrey combine their dubious talents to create an even more dubious movie in which a man becomes obsessed with the number 23.
Josh Rosenblatt, March 2, 2007
Wild Hogs
John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy star as middle-aged friends who seek life's purpose while on a cross-country motorcycle trip.
Toddy Burton, March 2, 2007
The Abandoned
Creepy Eastern European atmospherics encase this horror film, which nevertheless suffers from an anemic script.
Marc Savlov, March 2, 2007
Black Snake Moan
Like a steady 12-bar blues progression, Black Snake Moan lays down a groove and works the chords over and over 'til they're all spent.
Marjorie Baumgarten, March 2, 2007
Reno 911!: Miami
The gang from the Comedy Central show attend a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring break.
Marrit Ingman, March 2, 2007
May 6th
A fitting epitaph for the always controversial Van Gogh
Marc Savlov, March 1, 2007
Zodiac
The director of Fight Club and Se7en switches gears here from psychological thrillers to something that more closely resembles a police procedural.
Marjorie Baumgarten, March 2, 2007
The Lives of Others
This recent Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film is the story of the small redemption of one man, who happens to be a hated East German Stasi officer.
Josh Rosenblatt, March 2, 2007
Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls
Despite the fact that Tyler Perry relies on contrivances and sentimentality, he manages to spin a good yarn in the process.
Toddy Burton, Feb. 23, 2007
Amazing Grace
Unfortunately, what makes British abolitionist William Wilberforce a great man is also what makes him dull: his single-minded righteousness.
Josh Rosenblatt, Feb. 23, 2007
Starter for 10
This British coming-of-age drama and romantic comedy is fairly predictable, although the charming actors manage to keep the story’s characters just this side of stereotype and mediocrity.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Feb. 23, 2007
Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
Kimberley Jones, Feb. 23, 2007
Ghost Rider
The movie adds little to Marvel's source material, but to be fair, there wasn't a surfeit of originality in the comic book to begin with.
Marc Savlov, Feb. 23, 2007
Alfred HItchcock: The Early Years of the Master of Suspense
Lions Gate and StudioCanal have beaten Criterion to the punch with this intriguing if uneven collection
Marc Savlov, Feb. 23, 2007
An Unreasonable Man
This documentary is a far cry from the dry polemics one might expect from a survey of Ralph Nader's career as a consumer activist and political candidate.
Marc Savlov, Feb. 23, 2007
The Astronaut Farmer
This note-perfect film by the Polish brothers almost could be a relic from another age, an inspirational drama about staying true to one’s dreams no matter the social, economic, or emotional cost.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Feb. 23, 2007
Factory Girl
Sienna Miller nails Edie Sedgwick's gamine naivete in this biopic, but the film feels far too pat for its own good.
Marc Savlov, Feb. 23, 2007
Bridge to Terabithia
This excellent screen version of the Newbery-winning novel is not about fairies and enchanted forests but about kids who feel as though they don't fit in.
Marrit Ingman, Feb. 23, 2007
Music and Lyrics
Drew Barrymore plays lyricist to Hugh Grant's has-been musician in this Valentine's Day romantic comedy.
Toddy Burton, Feb. 16, 2007
Recent Releases
Taking a look at recent releases, from Johan van der Keuken to the St. Louis Cardinals
Shawn Badgley, Feb. 16, 2007
Academy Award-Nominated Live Action Shorts 2006
And the Oscar goes to … see the five nominees and judge for yourself.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Feb. 16, 2007
Tears of the Black Tiger
This Thai film is part melodrama and part spaghetti western, as if Sirk and Peckinpah fell into a blender and out poured tear-soaked Polaroids, giant exploding squibs and blown-up heads, tearful Asian songbird ballads, and homoerotic outlaw bonding.
Marrit Ingman, Feb. 16, 2007
Breach
The career of Robert Hanssen, the brilliant real-life FBI spy whose exploits as a double agent caused a great many deaths, should be the mole story to end all mole stories, but it is not.
Josh Rosenblatt, Feb. 16, 2007
Norbit
The three personas Eddie Murphy adopts in this film literally fill the screen, but the script doesn't serve his multidimensional talents.
Steve Davis, Feb. 9, 2007
The Martin & Lewis Collection: Volume One
"We don't need writers"
Steve Uhler, Feb. 9, 2007
The Last Sin Eater
Jesus Christ, the original sin eater, has his hands full with a bunch of superstitious Appalachian immigrants from Wales in the 1850s.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Feb. 9, 2007
Hannibal Rising
Who would have thought mass murder and cannibalism could be so dull?
Josh Rosenblatt, Feb. 9, 2007
The Messengers
This spook story is a surprisingly mediocre Hollywood debut for Hong Kong’s Pang brothers.
