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The Spiderwick Chronicles

Poignant enough
The film version of The Spiderwick Chronicles centers on the three Grace siblings and their interactions — some friendly, some potentially deadly — with fairies and goblins.

By: BROOKE HOLGERSON | February 13, 2008

Jumper

An 88-minute flop
Life and this movie are too short to have to put up with the little shit.

By: BRETT MICHEL | February 13, 2008

Fool's Gold

Ever shirtless, ever silly
As for Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, they should have a sit-down with their agents.

By: TOM MEEK | February 13, 2008

Definitely, Maybe

Agonizingly boring
You’d have to be a pretty dumb kid not to recognize your own mother, but this is a pretty dumb movie.

By: BROOKE HOLGERSON | February 15, 2008

Beyond Belief

Tears without embellishment
Be forewarned: this is the kind of movie that will make you take down the Web site shown at the end and send in a contribution.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 13, 2008

Academy Award Nominated Shorts 2007

Unchallenging and underwhelming
“Madame Tutli-Putli,” about a woman on a nightmarish night train, has the look of an animated Egon Schiele drawing.

By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN | February 13, 2008

Khadak

Contemporary nomads in Mongolia
Khadak is a brutal but redemptive story of an oppressed, disappearing pastoral culture.

By: PEG ALOI | February 13, 2008

Stop, look, and upload

Diary of the Dead records it for the Web
Romero has not grown narcissistic or solipsistic; American society has.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 13, 2008

Screaming Masterpiece

Sort of crap
Magnússon’s film fails to illuminate what this declaration of independence meant or how it was carried out.

By: WILL SPITZ | February 06, 2008

Taxi to the Dark Side

Torture in the shadows
In 2002, an Afghani jitney driver named Dilawar took off with two customers and disappeared.

By: GERALD PEARY | February 06, 2008

Today the Hawk Takes One Chick

The hawk is AIDS
They show what is, without voiceover commentary, leaving it to the horrified audience to figure out what to do.

By: GERALD PEARY | February 06, 2008

Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights: Hollywood to the Heartland

It seems, you had to be there
The film of Vince Vaughn’s September 2005 jaunt through the West, South, and Midwest has a dubious goal: to be a stand-up movie with heart.

By: BETSY SHERMAN | February 06, 2008

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

Disinterestedly coughed up
“I wonder how this can possibly end?” Wait, sorry, I meant, “When will this possibly end?”

By: CHRIS BRAIOTTA | February 06, 2008

Strange Wilderness

Lazy, lazy, lazy
Gaulke and Wolf (the actual ones) might have greater difficulty saving their careers.

By: BRETT MICHEL | February 06, 2008

The Hottie and the Nottie

Total makeover madness
It’s a shame you can’t auto-tune acting talent the same way you can manufacture vocals in the recording studio.

By: SHARON STEEL | February 06, 2008

Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour in Disney Digital 3-D

Oodles of fun
TV force, tweener pop star, and daughter of country-music icon Billy Ray Cyrus, Miley Cyrus gets the concert-tour-movie treatment, in 3-D no less.

By: TOM MEEK | February 06, 2008

The Eye

Two directers and still unoriginal
“I see . . . ,” says formerly blind concert violinist Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba, not believable as a musician even while visionless).

By: BRETT MICHEL | February 06, 2008

Caramel

Love, loniliness, aging, and bad hair
Why are beauty salons so popular all over the world as settings for microcosmic movies?

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 06, 2008

Mediæval morality play

In Bruges is a good place to be
It’s location, location, location for Martin McDonagh.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | December 16, 2008

4 Months refuses to come to terms
No surprise that Cristian Mungiu’s brilliant and brutal record of a day in the life of two distraught women failed to make even the Oscar short list of 10 for Best Foreign Language Film.

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 16, 2008

Rambo

Inadvertent camp
Let’s hope the fork has been firmly planted.

By: TOM MEEK | January 30, 2008

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