Toddy Burton

Teen popularity traumas are translated here into a loosely updated version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Using a conversation about history, three men, and a talk show, this Romanian comedy and Cannes Camera d’Or winner achieves surprising levels of underplayed wit and pathos. AFS@Dobie

Jet Li and Jason Statham spar and provoke all-out war among the Asian mobs.

On the surface, Rocket Science is yet another quirky high school movie, but its story of a stutterer who’s enticed into joining the debate team is special in its own way.

Pure farce served straight up and directed by the man who moonlights as the voice of Yoda and Miss Piggy.

Jane Austen could spot a phony, and, as a result, she would not have been happy with this romanticized account of her early years.

The film delivers familiar hilarity and some treats you’ll never get on the show (nudity and drunkenness) but steers shy of anything bold and new.

Cheadle leads a great cast through a musical glance at D.C. in the Sixties and Seventies.

Newest Adam Sandler comedy Chuck & Larry is a movie full of weak moments, contrived to the point of painful, that quickly turns from wild farce to gay-agenda movie.