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

No Spain, no gain

Woody takes a siesta in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Many are hailing Woody Allen’s new film, claiming it to be a “return to form.” I agree: he’s returned to the earliest form of his career, the monologue.
By PETER KEOUGH | August 14, 2008

All at sea

Local color spices Side By Each at the Rhode Island Film Festival
The Ocean State is a character as colorful as any of the ragtag denizens of Side by Each.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | August 05, 2008

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Empire

A flashy, ludicrous threequel
Lines like “I will crush any idea of freedom!” may or may not be intended to reflect current Chinese leadership.
By CHRIS WANGLER | August 05, 2008

Paper or plastic?

Baghead keeps itself covered
The Duplass brothers have constructed a compact meta-movie laced with knowing winks.
By BRETT MICHEL | July 30, 2008

Power playing

Theater by the Sea’s Evita
Theatre by the Sea is staging a slick rendition of Evita that gets across much of the power of the personalities and social forces involved.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | July 23, 2008

Bridesheads revisited

The novel and the Granada TV adaptation

By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 23, 2008

Royal fun

Colonial’s rousing As You Like It
As You Like It accomplishes what every production of a Shakespeare comedy tries to do.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | July 22, 2008

Smart women, tough choices

All’s Well in Lenox, Going to St. Ives via Gloucester
Welcome back to the director’s chair, Tina Packer.
By CAROLYN CLAY | July 22, 2008

Holy multiplicity, Batman!

A Caped-Crusader scorecard

By MIKE MILIARD | July 16, 2008

Streetball spectacle

The other end of the court

By NEELY STEINBERG | June 18, 2008

Company man

War, Inc. cuts its losses
In at least one of its toss-away scenes, Joshua Seftel’s War, Inc. rises to the level of brutal bad taste that distinguishes master satirists from Jonathan Swift to Stanley Kubrick.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 11, 2008

The Promotion

A bumpy seesaw ride
Reilly is an actor who excels at both realism and caricature — too bad the director doesn’t have the chops to take advantage either way.
By BETSY SHERMAN | June 11, 2008

Bourne to lose

Action, but no thrills, in this Conspiracy
The Bourne Conspiracy is a video game not directly based on the Bourne films starring Matt Damon — a fact its makers have taken great pains to obscure.
By MITCH KRPATA | June 10, 2008

The awful truth

Leo McCarey was better in the ’30s
Among the signal directors of 1930s comedies — one thinks of Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Ernst Lubitsch, and George Cukor — Leo McCarey’s name has been largely forgotten.
By STEVE VINEBERG | June 02, 2008

Crossword: ''And the last shall be first''

Or pretty close, anyway.

By MATT JONES | May 21, 2008

Just another Night

The songs are the draw in Trinity’s Paris
Paris by Night , the musical play — as opposed to a straight musical, if you’ll pardon the expression — is a pleasant enough excursion.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | May 07, 2008

Animal house

Sara Gruen’s fictional menagerie
Each of Sara Gruen’s first three novels have had animal characters who were crucial to the book, but Water for Elephants has made the biggest splash.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | April 30, 2008

Existential rubble

The potent poetry of Sweet Disaster
Sweet Disaster may not topple any of our convictions about how the world works. But that’s only because it reminds us how we stumble over our existential rubble every day.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | April 30, 2008

Room with a view

Theater of Thought’s fascinating Tape
Theater can capture our attention by trickery — think onstage helicopter in Miss Saigon or Richard III in a Civil War setting.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | April 23, 2008