Going the Distance -- Film Review
"Going the Distance" is, in a way, a remarkable film: It's hard to imagine any romantic comedy going wrong in so many different ways.
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The Last Exorcism -- Film Review
Demonic possession goes the shaky, hand-held camera route in "The Last Exorcism," a backwoods psychological thriller delivered faux-documentary-style, with mixed results.
Nanny McPhee Returns -- Film Review
Five years after her movie debut -- not so long a passage to have been forgotten and enough time to be fondly remembered -- "Nanny McPhee Returns."
Hiding Divya -- Film Review
Although well-meaning in its attempt to dramatize the stigma the subject evokes in the South Asian American community, "Hiding Divya" ultimately falters in its execution.
Piranha 3D -- Film Review
"Piranha 3D" is a pitch-perfect, guilty-pleasure serving of late-summer schlock that handily nails the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the Roger Corman original.
Calvin Marshall -- Film Review
"Calvin Marshall" reps a career-best performance by Steve Zahn as an alcoholic junior college baseball coach bitter over his failure to make it into the major leagues.
The Scenesters -- Film Review
"The Scenesters" ineffectively blends elements of satire and noir-style mystery in a tale of a crime-scene cleaner who finds himself on the trail of a media-obsessed serial killer.
Making Plans for Lena -- Film Review
Chiara Mastroianni provides a vividly intense turn in the title role, but the film's narrative diffuseness and excessive stylization defeats her best efforts.
Matching Jack -- Film Review
It's a risky business, the children-with-cancer film, and despite a valiant effort to leaven the gloom, Australian director Nadia Tass fails to lift "Matching Jack" above a handsomely photographed movie of the week.
Vampires Suck -- Film Review
Ignoring "True Blood" and "The Vampire Diaries," not to mention stalwarts like Dracula or the works of Anne Rice, this witless spoof instead merely provides an unfunny scene-by-scene retread of the first two movies in the hugely successful franchise.
La Soga -- Film Review
Unlikely to be embraced by Dominican Republic tourism agencies, "La Soga" is a violent thriller centering on a hit man with -- what else? -- a conscience.
The People I've Slept With -- Film Review
"A slut is just a woman with the morals of a man," declares the heroine of Quentin Lee's indie feature about a woman trying to determine the father of her unborn child.
The Switch -- Film Review
Despite a virtually unplayable premise, "The Switch" overcomes this handicap to turn itself into a friendly, offbeat romantic comedy.
Love like Poison -- Film Review
Screened last May at Cannes in the Directors Fortnight, Katell Quillevere's debut feature "Love Like Poison" about a pre-adolescent's struggles with the competing demands of faith and the flesh won modest critical acclaim and a best screenplay prize.
The Counsel -- Film Review
French director Cedric Anger's ambitious legal thriller "The Counsel" ("L'Avvocat") looks good and has a fine cast but his script covers familiar terrain and is so naive that the whole thing becomes laughable.
Winter Vacation -- Film Review
There are many slow and uneventful scenes in Li Hogqi's labored comedy "Winter Vacation" that are intended to show how slow and uneventful a break from school can be for teenagers in a snowbound urban wasteland with nothing to do.
Confessions -- Film Review
The cruelty that young teens are capable of and the amoral prurience of Japanese society portrayed in Tetsuya Nakashima "Confessions" will deliver a shock to the system of any audience.
Tere Bin Laden -- Film Review
In the gently subversive comedy "Tere Bin Laden," an enterprising young Pakistani TV reporter named Ali Hassan gets the idea to orchestrate an elaborate video hoax, starring an uncanny Osama Bin Laden lookalike, in an attempt to earn a $25 million reward and a ticket to America.
Hair -- Film Review
Turkish director Tayfun Pirselimoglu's "Hair" is a dreary and dispiriting tale of a wig seller dying of cancer who becomes obsessed with a woman married to a man who washes corpses for a living.
Takers -- Film Review
Although "Takers" pales alongside "Rififi"or "The Killing," it's a serviceable B-movie that will do decent business during the dog days of August.
Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp -- Film Review
The sound and fury of gross-out gore, eardrum-ripping noise effects and a stable of clone-like starlets of plastic beauty signify nothing in "Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp," the alarmingly brainless and sloppily directed follow-up to "Death Bell."
Outbound -- Film Review
Romanian director Bogdan George Apetri's first feature film, "Outbound," is a hard-nosed little thriller in which a no-nonsense woman takes a one-day release from jail for her mother's funeral in order to flee the country.
Thomas Mao -- Film Review
Filled with as many laugh-out-loud farcical gags as high brow visual aesthetics, "Thomas Mao" is a refreshing aperitif for the artsy crowd yet relatively accessible to an open-minded western audience.
Tales From Earthsea -- Film Review
"Tales From Earthsea" is an artistically arresting yet narratively lame and strangely unfocused cartoon aimed at older children and young adults.
The Fantastic Water Babes -- Film Review
"The Fantastic Water Babes" is a kooky medley of the motivational sports movie, supernatural fantasy, romantic comedy and absurdist vernacular gags.
Lottery Ticket -- Film Review
The twist in this film is that the story is set in an African-American community which triggers an unfortunate onslaught of caricatures one had hoped had gone out of fashion a long time ago.
