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Rambo

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

By: TOM MEEK | January 30, 2008

Over Her Dead Body

No pulse
TV stars Eva Longoria Parker and Lake Bell find life after TV in this beyond-the-grave rom-com.

By: TOM MEEK | January 30, 2008

Meet the Spartans

A humorless turd
The steam has at last run out on the Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer movie-spoofing machine.

By: TOM MEEK | January 30, 2008

U2 3D

Ego supersized
Even better than the real thing? An argument can be made.

By: MIKE MILIARD | January 31, 2008

Teeth

An uncomfortable horror/comedy hybrid
Nearly 45 minutes of expectant foreplay culminates in an unsatisfying, messy anti-climax that’s, well, toothless.

By: BRETT MICHEL | January 23, 2008

Untraceable

Delivering the goods, especially if you like to watch a man submerged in acid
The least-satisfying detective stories tend to be about serial killers.

By: MARK BAZER | January 23, 2008

Nanking

The death of a city
Nanking confronts an evil that, 70 years later, still chills the soul.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 24, 2008

''Mirrorball #1: Fresh Tracks''

Reality TV has not killed the video star
Reality TV has not killed the video star.

By: WILL SPITZ | January 23, 2008

How She Move

Not original "original" screenplay
The dance sequences suffer for the lack of gloss, but it’s a fair trade because tiny bursts of drama erupt whenever the plot looks the other way.

By: CHRIS BRAIOTTA | January 23, 2008

Grace Is Gone

No catharsis here, just soft piano keys
It’s strange that a film whose young characters are told to question the media should rely on its score to dictate how you’ll feel.

By: NICK MCCARTHY | January 23, 2008

Cloverfield

A $25 million dollar budget and a handheld camera
Despite the surreal images and the gratuitous 9/11 references, all this amounts to is about a $40 million opening weekend.

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 16, 2008

Billy the Kid

A charmer
Audiences can’t help but root for him when he discovers majestic first love in the person of a half-blind, perhaps dimwitted, 16-year-old local gal.

By: GERALD PEARY | January 23, 2008

2007 Sundance Shorts Program

Death, sex, and originality
The features at the Sundance Film Festival have tended toward limp, pseudo-indie pabulum.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 16, 2008

27 Dresses

An urban fairy tale
Well, I always cry at movies about weddings.

By: MARK BAZER | January 16, 2008

Transylvania

Authentic, but bumbling
Here, the seeker is a lovestruck pregnant young woman whose Gypsy lover, a pianist, was deported from France and now has disappeared.

By: GERALD PEARY | January 16, 2008

Steep

Reckless and soulful
“Mountains have the last say,” explains his stoic wife. “Sometimes they swallow you up.”

By: GERALD PEARY | January 16, 2008

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggietales Movie

Righteous and garden-fresh
From the Bible-hugging brain trust at Big Idea Productions comes another do-the-right-thing morality tale for kids.

By: TOM MEEK | January 16, 2008

Mad Money

Ain't nothin' but a paycheck
It does have stars: Diane Keaton (daffy!), Queen Latifah (sassy!), and Katie Holmes, who despite avoiding stereotype is cast as the most annoying of the three.

By: MARK BAZER | January 16, 2008

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

Silly confusion
In this chintzy exercise in mediæval conquest, taciturn martial-arts impresario Jason Statham takes on a maniacal Ray Liotta.

By: TOM MEEK | January 16, 2008

Honeydripper

A hot sticky mess
John Sayles’s first clunker is a threadbare yarn about the emergence of rock and roll that substitutes clichés for character development.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | January 16, 2008

First Sunday

Repent
You’ve got to be a serious screw-up or devastated by desperation to rob a church.

By: MARK BAZER | January 16, 2008

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