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A Girl Cut in Two

High-quality perversity
The title of Claude Chabrol’s 2007 black comic morality tale — La fille coupée en deux — serves as a playful reminder of the role women usually play on the screen.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 04, 2008

I Served the King of England

Ambitious but old-fashioned and sluggish
I Served the King of England , though an arresting story, is the least successful of Czech filmmaker Jiří Menzel's film adaptations.

By: GERALD PEARY | September 03, 2008

The Grocer's Son

Nothing much happens here
Le fils de l’épicier is a dull title, but appropriate for Eric Guirado’s competently made, unexciting movie.

By: GERALD PEARY | September 03, 2008

Disaster Movie

Devoid of laughs or recognizable actors
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (the hacks behind Date Movie and Epic Movie ) unleashed their second witless rehash of pop culture references this year.

By: BRETT MICHEL | September 03, 2008

College

A vulgar, witless depiction of college
College , which was “directed” by Deb Hagen, is so full of nastiness and cruelty that it’s hard to believe anyone would find joy in it.

By: MARK BAZER | September 03, 2008

Babylon A.D.

Incoherent and somewhat amusing
Vin Diesel’s bad-ass boomfest will do if you’re in the mood for post-environmental-apocalypse action that doesn’t make you think too hard.

By: BETSY SHERMAN | September 03, 2008

Eric Rohmer says adieu with Astrea and Celadon
Now 88 years old, Eric Rohmer, a leading light of the French New Wave and a former film critic at Cahiers du cinéma, says Romance of Astrea and Celadon is his last film.

By: A. S. HAMRAH | September 02, 2008

Traitor

Never as exciting as an episode of 24
This Islamic-terrorist thriller takes us halfway around the world before landing on our shores to introduce us to the terrorists in our midst.

By: MARK BAZER | August 27, 2008

Stealing America

Something to infuriate everyone
Watching Stealing America , you wonder whether even the election of 2008 isn’t a foregone conclusion.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 27, 2008

The House Bunny

Cheap gags and the requisite amount of T+A
Once again Anna Faris, the only reason to see the Scary Movie franchise, adds undeserved riches to an awful premise.

By: TOM MEEK | August 27, 2008

Death Race

A B-movie full of crowd-pleasing bullshit
Glistening torso Jensen Ames (the ubiquitous Jason Statham), is framed for the murder of his sweet wife in this loose remake of the 1975 cult favorite Death Race 2000 .

By: JASON O'BRYAN | August 27, 2008

What We Do Is Secret

Exposition trumps atmosphere
That staple of the musical bio-pic — a close-up of dope bubbling on a spoon — punctuates Rodger Grossman’s account of the short life of Darby Crash.

By: BETSY SHERMAN | August 20, 2008

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

A stiffly-animated, money-grabbing afterthought
It is Star Wars , but it's also an ad for an upcoming video game and an animated TV series debuting in October.

By: BRETT MICHEL | August 20, 2008

Sixty Six

A pleasing, if unbalanced, period piece
Paul Weiland ( Made of Honor ) directs this autobiographical coming-of-age comedy set in London in 1966, the year England took on Germany in the World Cup final.

By: PEG ALOI | August 20, 2008

The Rocker

The set-up is adequate, but the jokes fall flat
Rainn Wilson of The Office gets promoted to the big screen with this anemic comedy directed by The Full Monty helmer Peter Cattaneo.

By: BROOKE HOLGERSON | August 20, 2008

Mirrors

A less gory and more clichéd remake
It would all be funny if it didn’t mirror the same burnt-out ideas every one else is using.

By: CHRIS WANGLER | August 20, 2008

The Longshots

The script may have taken an hour to write
A based-on-a-true-story inspirational tale of the first girl quarterback to take a team to the Pop Warner Super Bowl, The Longshots is directed by Fred Durst.

By: MARK BAZER | August 20, 2008

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Lovely, anime charm with a jarring third act
The novel written by Yasutaka Tsutsui in 1965 had been adapted some eight times before this, but never quite so adorably .

By: JASON O'BRYAN | August 20, 2008

Frozen River

A cold film with a warm ending
This Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner takes us to a remote stretch of the New York–Quebec border where, come winter, there’s not much to do but wish you were elsewhere.

By: MARK BAZER | August 20, 2008

Elegy

Sex and power dominate in this Roth adaptation
Cruz, who bares all in her finest performance since her days as Pedro Almodóvar’s muse.

By: TOM MEEK | August 20, 2008

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