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Pathology

Total cheese for the CW set
Pathology is totally ludicrous, and too self-serious to be any fun.

By: BROOKE HOLGERSON | April 23, 2008

Mio Fratello È Figlio Unico|My Brother Is an Only Child

Brotherly amore
“A Fascist in the family is always handy.” Unless it’s a family of leftists in a small Italian town during the turbulent “anni di piombo” (“years of lead”).

By: BRETT MICHEL | April 23, 2008

The Life before Her Eyes

Exploiting high school shootings
Shame on all involved.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 23, 2008

88 Minutes

Beat the clock or die
Al Pacino may have The Godfather and Dog Day Afternoon to rest his laurels on, but some of his later endeavors, like this ill-conceived thriller, are best forgotten.

By: TOM MEEK | April 23, 2008

Deal

A watch watcher
If you’re going to make a movie about a subject as non-cinematic as professional poker, you might as well go all in.

By: MARK BAZER | April 23, 2008

Bab’aziz: The Prince who Contemplated his Soul

A clumsy fairy tale
But as the stories clumsily pile up in a Sheherazade-like overload, audiences will wish to escape the sand.

By: GERALD PEARY | April 23, 2008

Largely laugh-barren
Not even SNL’s whipsmart Tina Fey and Amy Poehler can save writer/director Michael McCuller’s pregnancy comedy from its fate as another condescending, self-congratulatory fantasy of maternal bliss.

By: ALICIA POTTER | April 23, 2008

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

Nobody knows
Last time we saw documentarian Morgan Spurlock, he was downing McDonald’s fries in Supersize Me.

By: TOM MEEK | April 16, 2008

The Visitor

Unforgettable direction
Writer/director Tom McCarthy, expanding on the theme of unexpected friendships that propelled 2003’s The Station Agent , is a subtle artist, and that trait extends to Jenkins.

By: BRETT MICHEL | April 16, 2008

Prom Night

A bloodless slasher flick
The original Prom Night (1980) wasn’t all that original.

By: TOM MEEK | April 16, 2008

My Blueberry Nights

Sexy but emotionally failing
Three years after 2046 , Wong Kar-wai is not in love any more — and I for one am happy for him. Perfectionism can be exhausting for all involved.

By: ROB NELSON | April 16, 2008

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

A limp comedic effort
Judd Apatow gave the dick joke a shot of Viagra in Knocked Up and Superbad .

By: TOM MEEK | April 16, 2008

The Forbidden Kingdom

Big screen fairy tale
Hong Kong action stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li don’t stray too far from type in this big-screen fairy tale: Chan plays a drunken kung fu master and Li’s a stoic monk with lethal reflexes.

By: TOM MEEK | April 16, 2008

The First Saturday in May

Majesty and manure
Shot in the winter and spring of 2006, this down-to-earth documentary from John and Brad Hennegan follows half a dozen Kentucky Derby hopefuls.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | April 16, 2008

Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge|The Flight of the Red Balloon

Clear and serene
Such a multiple remove from a concrete object to various levels of simulation would probably be dizzying or even annoying as posed by any filmmaker other than the great Iranian auteur.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 16, 2008

Zombie Stippers

Hilariously good gorefest
I found it well-directed, sexy, schlocky, and sublime.

By: PEG ALOI | April 16, 2008

Young@Heart

Pleasantly predictable
The Young@Heart Chorus was formed in Northampton in 1982 by whip-cracking director Bob Cilman.

By: CHRIS WANGLER | April 16, 2008

Street Kings

A copycat cop movie
A film based on a James Ellroy story should evoke its brutal LA demi-monde setting, not the clichés of other films from the same genre.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 09, 2008

The Ruins

Vegetation and gore
A group of archæologically minded twentysomethings check out an ancient Mayan temple in the Mexican jungle and wind up with hell to pay.

By: TOM MEEK | April 09, 2008

Smart People

As expected, smart supporting characters
Stories about addled, self-absorbed middle-aged male professors whose lives are falling apart and — worse yet — who can’t get published don’t mean much to the rest of us.

By: MARK BAZER | April 09, 2008

The belle boy

Audrey Tautou goes slumming in Hors de prix
Precious, rather than priceless, is the word that comes to mind when describing Audrey Tautou.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 09, 2008

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