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Review: Not Easily Broken

Bill Duke's Not Easily Broken
It's an uneven yet affecting effort, clotted with cliché and stereotype early on but becoming confluent and even provocative as it places a salient spin on responsibility, race, and going the distance.

By: TOM MEEK | January 07, 2009

Review: Revolutionary Road

Sam Mendes's not so Revolutionary Road
It's a masterful, devastating portrait of a marriage crumbling and a merciless critique of the torpor and predictability of 1950's suburbia.

By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN | December 30, 2008

Review: The Wrestler

Aronofsky, Rourke make The Wrestler a champ
Despite the bleak scenario, this is Aronofsky's funniest film.

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 24, 2008

Review: The Reader

Tiresome and callow
It's Christmas, and our thoughts turn toward the Third Reich.

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 24, 2008

Review: The Spirit

Awful on every level

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 23, 2008

Review: Valkyrie with Tom Cruise

You know the bad guys win, so what's the point?

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 24, 2008

Review: Bedtime Stories

Sandler reassures his audience
Adam Sandler returns to his simpering manchild persona in this witless ode to "imagination" directed by Adam Shankman.

By: BETSY SHERMAN | December 23, 2008

Review: Marley & Me

Banal entertainment
Will Jennifer Aniston ever get a good film role?

By: BRETT MICHEL | December 23, 2008

Review: The Human Condition

Kobayashi's 10-hour epic
Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi (1916-1996) always stood up to the established order

By: BRETT MICHEL | December 22, 2008

Review: Gran Torino

Cuddly Clint?
Gran Torino is vintage Eastwood

By: GERALD PEARY | December 17, 2008

Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Age before beauty
The film evokes the mystery and pathos of a life lived. In reverse.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 06, 2009

Review: Seven Pounds with Will Smith

A gimmicky tale annoyingly told
Will Smith's previous film with director Gabriele Muccino, The Pursuit of Happyness, was a tale well told. Their new one is a gimmicky tale annoyingly told.

By: BETSY SHERMAN | January 06, 2009

Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still

We're doomed
The scene set in McDonald's makes sense, unlike the rest of the plot.

By: BRETT MICHEL | December 17, 2008

Review: Yes Man with Jim Carrey

The correct answer is "No"
Once the one-note joke's been established, everything else follows with plodding, mechanical predictability.

By: BRETT MICHEL | December 16, 2008

Review: The Tale of Despereaux

A glorified hunk of cheese
This animated mouse epic aspires to grand scale but falters in its execution.

By: TOM MEEK | December 16, 2008

Review: Francois Ozon's Angel

Inglorious kitsch melodrama
But Ozon has a wry plan, for the conventionally told tale switches tone and becomes a very funny bodice ripper itself.

By: GERALD PEARY | December 16, 2008

Review: Ciao

A most gentle and civil gay film
The set-up in Yen Tan's most gentle and civil of gay films is that Dallas twentysomething Mark dies in a car accident just as his year-long Italian e-mail flirtation, Andrea (Alessandro Calza), is due to visit him from Genoa.

By: GERALD PEARY | December 16, 2008