Movie Reviews

Genre:  Program»
Release Date: 5/21/2008
Running Time: 150 mins
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Genre:  Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 5/22/2008
Running Time: 120 mins
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, Shia LaBeouf and Igor Jijikine
Producer: Frank Marshall
Writer: David Koepp and George Lucas
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

No doubt your history teacher failed to tell you of the long-lost Yagahl tribe, which apparently thrived on snowy mountainsides 6,000 years before Mike Huckabee believes the Earth even existed and consisted of one Jamaican (Mona Hammond), one... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Drama» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 3/7/2008
Running Time: 109 mins
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Affif Ben Badra, Mo Zinal, Nathanael Baring, Mona Hammond, Marco Khan and Reece Ritchie
Producer: Roland Emmerich, Mark Gordon and Michael Wimer
Writer: Harald Kloser, John Orloff, Matthew Sand, Robert Rodat and Roland Emmerich
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

Ben Mezrich’s 2002 best-seller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions was a smart narrative about . . . well, you did see the subtitle, right? It was a risky proposition for Mezrich,... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 3/28/2008
Running Time: 123 mins
Director: Robert Luketic
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Jim Sturgess, Jack McGee, Liza Lapira, Aaron Yoo, Sam Golzari, Spencer Garrett and Kieu Chinh
Producer: William S. Beasley
Writer: Allan Loeb and Ben Mezrich
Distributor: Sony/Columbia Pictures

Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 1/25/2008
Running Time: 113 mins
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean, Ion Sapdaru, Teodor Corban, Tania Popa, Cerasela Iosifescu, Doru Ana and Eugenia Bosânceanu
Producer: Cristian Mungiu and Oleg Mutu
Writer: Cristian Mungiu
Distributor: IFC First Take

Jon Avnet’s cheesy new thriller is 105 minutes long, and I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up by Al Pacino chewing scenery. Alas, it’s worse than that. Though his hair looks like Mount St. Helens preparing to blow, Pacino’s... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Suspense/Thriller» Drama»
Release Date: 4/18/2008
Running Time: 108 mins
Director: Jon Avnet
Cast: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman, Deborah Kara Unger, Benjamin McKenzie, Neal McDonough, Brendan Fletcher and Michal Yannai
Producer: Randall Emmett, George Furla, Avi Lerner, Jon Avnet and Gary Scott Thompson
Writer: Gary Scott Thompson
Distributor: Sony Pictures/TriStar

Could have sworn I’ve seen this episode of Baby Mama before—like sometime in January 2007, when it was originally titled “The Baby Show” and aired on the other prime-time series starring Tina Fey, 30 Rock .... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Comedy»
Release Date: 4/25/2008
Running Time: 96 mins
Director: Michael McCullers
Cast: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver, Greg Kinnear, Romany Malco, Dax Shepard, Maura Tierney, Holland Taylor, Curt Carlson and Dennis Albanese
Producer: Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn
Writer: Michael McCullers
Distributor: Universal Pictures

Heavily accented English (don't worry, there are subtitles throughout) is the only common tongue shared by the characters of Israeli writer-director Eran Kolirin's highly impressive debut feature, in which the members of an Egyptian policemen's... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Drama» Comedy»
Release Date: 12/7/2007
Running Time: 89 mins
Director: Eran Kolirin
Cast: Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour, Imad Jabarin, Tarak Kopty, Hisham Khoury, Francois Khell, Eyad Sheety and Shlomi Avraham
Producer: Eilon Ratzkovsky, Ehud Bleiberg, Yossi Uzrad, Koby Gal-Raday and Guy Jacoel
Writer: Eran Kolirin
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

The English media have spent the better part of a year back-and-forthing over the true-or-false plot points of the 1971-set Bank Job , a movie about the plan to steal nudie pics of Princess Margaret from the bank vault in which they were stashed.... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Suspense/Thriller»
Release Date: 3/7/2008
Running Time: 110 mins
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Richard Lintern, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, Peter Bowles, Keeley Hawes, Colin Salmon, Peter De Jersey and James Faulkner
Producer: Steve Chasman and Charles Roven
Writer: Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
Distributor: Lionsgate

Genre:  Documentary»
Release Date: 4/11/2008
Running Time: 86 mins
Director: Sunny Abberton and Macario De Souza
Cast: Jai Abberton, Koby Abberton, Sunny Abberton, Russell Crowe, Kelly Slater, Jack Kingsley, Sean Doherty, Cheyne Horan, Wayne Cleveland and Maurice Cole
Producer: Sunny Abberton
Writer: Stuart Beattie and Sunny Abberton
Distributor: Slowhand Cinema Releasing

The multiply blessed young Lebanese writer-director Nadine Labaki looks sublimely like Anna Magnani crossed with Penelope Cruz. She also has the brass and the chops not only to direct her first film but star in it as well. Here, she's a Beirut... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Romance» Comedy»
Release Date: 2/1/2008
Running Time: 95 mins
Director: Nadine Labaki
Cast: Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Al Masri, Joanna Moukarzel, Sihame Haddad, Adel Karam, Ismaïl Antar, Gisèle Aouad, Aziza Semaan and Fadia Stella
Producer: Anne-Dominique Toussaint
Writer: Nadine Labaki
Distributor: Roadside Attractions

If Andrew Adamson’s battle-heavy sequel to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe falls to Indy 4 at the box office, it won’t be for want of trying to out-he-man the competition. Adamson has retooled the... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  SciFi/Fantasy» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 5/16/2008
Running Time: 140 mins
Director: Andrew Adamson
Cast: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Ben Barnes, Peter Dinklage, Pierfrancesco Favino, Sergio Castellitto, Liam Neeson and Eddie Izzard
Producer: Mark Johnson, Andrew Adamson and Philip Steuer
Writer: Andrew Adamson, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

Less a movie than a collection of family-friendly platitudes rationed out at regular intervals, College Road Trip concerns overly protective police chief James (Martin Lawrence), who wants his daughter Melanie (Raven-Symoné) to attend... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Comedy»
Release Date: 3/7/2008
Running Time: 83 mins
Director: Roger Kumble
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Raven-Symone, Brenda Song, Kym Whitley, Adam LeFevre, Eugene Jones III, Margo Harshman, Lucas Grabeel, Matthew Schlein and Eshaya Draper
Producer: Louanne Brickhouse, Kristin Burr and Andrew Gunn
Writer: Carrie Evans, Cinco Paul, Emi Mochizuki and Ken Daurio
Distributor: Buena Vista

Genre:  Documentary»
Release Date: 4/18/2008
Running Time: 95 mins
Director: Oren Jacoby
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Producer: Oren Jacoby, Michael Solomon and Betsy West
Writer: James Carroll and Oren Jacoby
Distributor: First Run Features

When an Austrian filmmaker who makes no secret of the fact that his grandparents were Nazi sympathizers makes a fact-based movie (nominated by the Academy for best foreign film) about a Jewish forger who survived the concentration camps by... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  War» Drama»
Release Date: 2/22/2008
Running Time: 98 mins
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Cast: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, August Zirner, Veit Stübner, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Andreas Schmidt, Tilo Prückner and Lenn Kudrjawizki
Producer: Josef Aichholzer, Nina Bohlmann and Babette Schröder
Writer: Adolf Burger and Stefan Ruzowitzky
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Lonely is the life of the mogul. The long hours and hectic schedule make dating a headache, but who needs romance when you have the services of an anonymous sex club at your disposal? Like Rideshare with benefits, the “list” around which... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Suspense/Thriller» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 4/25/2008
Running Time: 108 mins
Director: Marcel Langenegger
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Maggie Q, Rachael Taylor, Natasha Henstridge, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Joe Huu Nguyen, Zoe Perry and Daisy Bates
Producer: Marjorie Shik
Writer: Jason Keller and Mark Bomback
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Genre:  Action/Adventure» Documentary»
Release Date: 3/30/2007
Running Time: 40 mins
Director: David Clark and Bayley Silleck
Cast: Michael Douglas, Roy Chapman Andrews, Mike Novacek and Mark Norell
Producer: David Clark
Writer: Bayley Silleck and David Clark
Distributor: Giant Screen Films

There's more "directing" per square inch of Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly than in any movie this year, with the possible exception of Michael Bay's Transformers . Yet some of the same people who criticize Bay for his... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 11/30/2007
Running Time: 112 mins
Director: Julian Schnabel
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz Lopez Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands and Max von Sydow
Producer: Jim Lemley
Writer: Jean-Dominique Bauby and Ronald Harwood
Distributor: Miramax Films

Genre:  Family» Animation» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 3/14/2008
Running Time: 88 mins
Director: Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino
Cast: Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, Isla Fisher, Dane Cook, Jaime Pressly, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Producer: Bob Gordon
Writer: Cinco Paul, Dr. Seuss and Ken Daurio
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Rare is the star vehicle that is as poorly matched to its star as Drillbit Taylor , which casts Owen Wilson as a homeless army deserter and con man, able to fool people into believing he’s both a substitute teacher and a master of... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Comedy»
Release Date: 3/21/2008
Running Time: 102 mins
Director: Steven Brill
Cast: Owen Wilson, Alex Frost, Matt Gallini, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, Janet Varney, Josh Peck, Rakefet Abergel, Christopher L. Antie and Stacy Arnell
Producer: Judd Apatow, Susan Arnold and Donna Roth
Writer: Edmond Dantes, Kristofor Brown and Seth Rogen
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Genre:  »
Release Date: 3/20/1992
Running Time: 90 mins
Director: Derek Jarman
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Is Fool's Gold really a new movie, or is it just some infernal clip reel cut together from that first Matthew McConaughey-centric Indiana Jones knockoff ( Sahara ), that romantic comedy in which Kate Hudson falls for a shaggy slacker against... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Romance» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 2/8/2008
Running Time: 110 mins
Director: Andy Tennant
Cast: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Donald Sutherland, Ewen Bremner, Roger Sciberras, Alexis Dziena and Kevin Hart
Producer: Donald De Line, Bernie Goldmann, Jon Klane and Wink Mordaunt
Writer: John Claflin and Kenneth Lonergan
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

The plot is pure choose-your-own-adventure: A bullied wuxia fanboy from South Boston (Michael Angarano) is teleported back into a LARP fantasia of feudal China, where he’s singled out as the long-anticipated “Chosen One”... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 4/18/2008
Running Time: 113 mins
Director: Rob Minkoff
Cast: Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Michael Angarano, Collin Chou, Yifei Liu and Bingbing Li
Producer: Ryan Kavanaugh and Casey Silver
Writer: Ch'eng-En Wu and John Fusco
Distributor: Lionsgate

Jason Segel puts it all out there--and, like, it’s all out there in Forgetting Sarah Marshall . It takes all of five minutes for Segel, who wrote and stars in the movie, to drop towel: His character, Peter Bretter, is on the verge of being... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Romance» Comedy»
Release Date: 4/18/2008
Running Time: 111 mins
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Cast: Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Russell Brand, Bill Hader, Jonah Hill, Liz Cackowski, Maria Thayer, Jack McBrayer and Davon McDonald
Producer: Judd Apatow and Shauna Robertson
Writer: Jason Segel and Judd Apatow
Distributor: Universal Pictures

Genre:  Romance» Comedy»
Release Date: 4/11/2008
Running Time: 87 mins
Director: Casper Andreas
Cast: Jesse Archer, Charlie David, Cory Grant, Goldsmith, Steven M. Goldsmith, J.R. Rolley, Virginia Bryan, Jeremy Gender, Allison Lane and John Kaisner
Producer: Casper Andreas and Markus Goetze
Writer: Casper Andreas and Jesse Archer
Distributor: Embrem Entertainment

Canadian poet Anne Michaels’s beautiful 1996 novel—about a Jewish writer immobilized by the memory of his Polish family’s murder at the hands of the Nazis—distills tragedy into grief, terror, and a wary romance set on a... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 5/2/2008
Running Time: 108 mins
Director: Jeremy Podeswa
Cast: Stephen Dillane, Rade Sherbedgia, Rosamund Pike, Ayelet Zurer, Robbie Kay, Ed Stoppard, Rachelle Lefevre, Nina Dobrev, Themis Bazaka and Diego Matamoros
Producer: Robert Lantos
Writer: Anne Michaels and Jeremy Podeswa
Distributor: IDP Distribution

Genre:  Documentary»
Release Date: 3/14/2008
Running Time: 44 mins
Director: Greg MacGillivray
Cast: Shana Watahomigie, Wade Davis, Nikki Kelly and Robert Redford
Producer: Mark Krenzien, Greg MacGillivray and Shaun Macgillivray
Writer: Jack Stephens and Stephen Judson
Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films

Genre:  Comedy» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 4/25/2008
Running Time: 102 mins
Director: Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg
Cast: John Cho, Kal Penn, Eric Winter, David Krumholtz, Neil Patrick Harris, Robert Corddry, Christopher Meloni, Ed Helms, Eddie Kaye Thomas and Paula Garces
Producer: Greg Shapiro and Nathan Kahane
Writer: Hayden Schlossberg and Jon Hurwitz
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre:  Documentary»
Release Date: 3/28/2008
Running Time: 84 mins
Director: Jyll Johnstone
Cast: Mimi Weddell
Producer: Michael Arlen Davis and Jyll Johnstone
Writer: 
Distributor: Canobie/Abramorama

Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 11/9/2007
Running Time: 114 mins
Director: Guy Moshe
Cast: Ron Livingston, Chris Penn, Udo Kier, Virginie Ledoyen, Thuy Nguyen, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Srey Cham, Kosal Dang, Mudha Dann and Kun Daravann
Producer: Adi Ezroni, Guy Jacobson and Nava Levin
Writer: Guy Jacobson and Guy Moshe
Distributor: Priority Films/Slowhand Cinema Releasing

Writer-director Georgina Garcia Riedel’s feature debut is so good for so long that it breaks the heart to watch the film lose its way. Opening with silent, static shots of the characters’ sleepy Arizona community, How the Garcia Girls... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Drama» Comedy»
Release Date: 5/16/2008
Running Time: 128 mins
Director: Georgina Garcia Riedel
Cast: Eliana Alexander, David Barrera, Steven Bauer, Alek Carrera, Ana Cervantes, Jorge Cervera, Patricia De Leon, Marina Dena-Santo, Alyssa Diaz and America Ferrera
Producer: Olga Arana, Jose C. Mangual and Georgina Riedel
Writer: Georgina Garcia Riedel
Distributor: Maya Releasing

Nothing if not a product of his moment, Tony Stark, the billionaire weapons-designer-cum-rocket-powered-superhero better known as Iron Man, first appeared in March 1963, just in time to fight the encroaching Red menace in Southeast Asia. In the... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  SciFi/Fantasy» Drama» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 5/2/2008
Running Time: 126 mins
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, Hilary Swank, Leslie Bibb, Stan Lee, Shaun Toub and Bill Smitrovich
Producer: Avi Arad
Writer: Arthur Marcum, Don Heck, Jack Kirby, Larry Lieber, Matthew Hollaway and Stan Lee
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 4/4/2008
Running Time: 78 mins
Director: Shira Geffen and Etgar Keret
Cast: Sarah Adler, Tsipor Aizen, Bruria Albek, Ilanit Ben-Yaakov, Assi Dayan, Ma-nenita De Latorre, Miri Fabian, Shosha Goren, Tzahi Grad and Johnathan Gurfinkel
Producer: Yael Fogiel
Writer: Shira Geffen
Distributor: Zeitgeist Films

On-screen and off, George Clooney is like a holdover from a time—which, admittedly, may only have ever existed in the movies—when men were witty gentlemen who knew how to dress, how to charm the pants off a lady, and how to throw a punch... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Romance» Comedy»
Release Date: 4/4/2008
Running Time: 114 mins
Director: George Clooney
Cast: George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, John Krasinski, Jonathan Pryce, Ezra Buzzington, Wayne Duvall, David de Vries, Rick Forrester, Craig S. Harper and Malcolm Goodwin
Producer: Grant Heslov and Casey Silver
Writer: Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly
Distributor: Universal Pictures

In Made of Honor , Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial “fornicator” slowly but surely domesticated by his unspoken love for longtime BFF Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), who’s on her way to Scotland to... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Romance» Comedy»
Release Date: 5/2/2008
Running Time: 101 mins
Director: Paul Weiland
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd, Busy Philipps, Sydney Pollack, Kelly Carlson, Kathleen Quinlan, Beau Garrett, Sarah Wright and Kadeem Hardison
Producer: Tania Landau
Writer: Adam Sztykiel
Distributor: Sony Pictures/Columbia

Genre:  Suspense/Thriller» Drama»
Release Date: 1/1/1962
Running Time: 126 mins
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury and Janet Leigh
Producer: George Axelrod and John Frankenheimer
Writer: George Axelrod
Distributor: MGM/UA Classics

Film noir and melodrama cast a long shadow over Ira Sachs’s look back at the rotting heart of the ’50s nuclear family, but his movie rarely breaks a sweat. Slow, deliberate, and russet to a fault, this quietly controlled chamber piece,... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Romance» Drama»
Release Date: 3/7/2008
Running Time: 90 mins
Director: Ira Sachs
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, Rebecca Codling, Chris Cooper and Pauline Crawford
Producer: William Horberg
Writer: John Bingham and Oren Moverman
Distributor: Sony Classics

For an obscure tale of a virginal London governess who discovers her true calling running interference for a giddy night-club singer, British homemaker Winifred Watson’s 1938 novel, knocked off in six weeks while she washed dishes under the... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Drama» Comedy»
Release Date: 3/7/2008
Running Time: 92 mins
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Cast: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Ciaran Hinds, Shirley Henderson and Lee Pace
Producer: Nellie Bellflower
Writer: David Magee and Simon Beaufoy
Distributor: Focus Features

Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 4/4/2008
Running Time: 111 mins
Director: Wong Kar Wai
Cast: Norah Jones, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, Chad R. Davis, Katya Blumenberg, John Malloy, Demetrius Butler, Frankie Faison and David Strathairn
Producer: Jean-Louis Piel
Writer: Wong Kar Wai
Distributor: The Weinstein Company

The family as microcosm of a divided country: Two brothers come of age in late-’60s Italy, as political strife reaches their provincial Latina (a city laid out by Mussolini’s government). A bounding prologue shows younger Accio entering... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Comedy»
Release Date: 3/28/2008
Running Time: 100 mins
Director: Daniele Luchetti
Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Elio Germano, Diane Fleri, Luca Zingaretti, Anna Bonaiuto, Massimo Popolizio, Ascanio Celestini, Alba Rohrwacher and Vittorio Emanuele Propizio
Producer: Marco Chimenz
Writer: Antonio Pennacchi and Daniele Luchetti
Distributor: ThinkFilm

About 30 years ago, this is precisely the kind of film that would’ve had Jodie Foster starring as the willful, resourceful, imaginative kiddo stuck on Paradise Island and waiting for her father to return—or not—following a storm... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Family» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 4/4/2008
Running Time: 95 mins
Director: Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin
Cast: Jodie Foster, Abigail Breslin, Gerard Butler, Morgan Griffin, Christopher Baker, Peter Callan, Alphonso McAuley, Sean Keenan and Michael Carman
Producer: Paula Mazur
Writer: Jennifer Flackett, Joseph Kwong, Mark Levin, Paula Mazur and Wendy Orr
Distributor: Fox Walden

Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 3/7/2008
Running Time: 80 mins
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Jake Miller, Taylor Momsen, Lauren McKinney, Winfield Jackson, Joe Schweitzer, Grace Carter, Scott Patrick Green and John Michael Burrowes
Producer: David Cress, Charles Gilibert, Nathanaël Karmitz and Neil Kopp
Writer: Blake Nelson and Gus Van Sant
Distributor: IFC First Take

“A Fairytale Like No Other”? Penelope ’s influences are right up front--there’s the Tim Burton production design (overstocking each frame with curios) and Amelie music-box wistfulness tinkling all about. The film’s... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  SciFi/Fantasy» Drama» Comedy»
Release Date: 2/29/2008
Running Time: 89 mins
Director: Mark Palansky
Cast: Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Dinklage, Richard E. Grant, Simon Woods, Ronni Ancona, Jason Thornton and Russell Brand
Producer: Christian Arnold-Beutel
Writer: Leslie Caveny
Distributor: Summit Entertainment

Genre:  Comedy»
Release Date: 3/28/2008
Running Time: 104 mins
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh, Marie-Christine Adam, Vernon Dobtcheff, Jacques Spiesser, Didier Brice, Annelise Hesme, Jean-Michel Lahmi and Blandine Pélissier
Producer: Philippe Martin
Writer: Benoît Graffin and Pierre Salvadori
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films

This gore-free PG-13 slasher film bears the same title as a fondly remembered and very bad 1980 horror movie that starred Jamie Lee Curtis. It wasn’t her finest hour, nor is this quasi-remake likely to do much for Brittany Snow, who stars as... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Horror»
Release Date: 4/11/2008
Running Time: 88 mins
Director: Nelson McCormick
Cast: Brittany Snow, Brianne Davis, Kellan Lutz, Kelly Blatz, Andrew Fiscella, Jana Kramer, Hugh Scott, Collins Pennie, Madison Riley and Marcuis Harris
Producer: Neal H. Moritz
Writer: J.S. Cardone
Distributor: Screen Gems

Genre:  Program»
Release Date: 5/15/2008
Running Time: 130 mins
Director: 
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With his 10th feature—an entertaining tale of high-stakes martial arts—David Mamet has infused the trademark sleight of hand with a measure of two-fisted action. Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor), an exponent of Brazilian jujitsu, teaches... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Drama» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 5/9/2008
Running Time: 99 mins
Director: David Mamet
Cast: Emily Mortimer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Max Martini, Rebecca Pidgeon, Cathy Cahlin Ryan, Ricky Jay, Alice Braga, Bob Jennings and Enson Inoue
Producer: Chrisann Verges
Writer: David Mamet
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Genre:  Comedy» Musical»
Release Date: 9/25/1975
Running Time: 100 mins
Director: Jim Sharman
Cast: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien and Patricia Quinn
Producer: Lou Adler and Michael White
Writer: Richard O'Brien
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Genre:  Suspense/Thriller» Horror»
Release Date: 4/4/2008
Running Time: 97 mins
Director: Carter Smith
Cast: Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, Joe Anderson, Dimitri Baveas, Sergio Calderon, Bar Paly and Jesse Ramirez
Producer: Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld and Chris Bender
Writer: Scott B. Smith
Distributor: Dreamworks/Paramount Studios

Genre:  Documentary»
Release Date: 10/5/2007
Running Time: 45 mins
Director: Sean MacLeod Phillips
Cast: Liam Owen, Doug Kisgen and Liev Schreiber
Producer: 
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Distributor: National Geographic

Genre:  Musical» Documentary»
Release Date: 4/4/2008
Running Time: 122 mins
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Rollingstones, Christina Aguilera, Buddy Guy and Jack White III
Producer: Steve Bing, Michael Cohl, Victoria Pearman and Zane Weiner
Writer: 
Distributor: Paramount Vantage

Genre:  Documentary»
Release Date: 12/7/2007
Running Time: 100 mins
Director: Maureen Castle Tusty, James Tusty and Mike Majoros
Cast: Linda Hunt, Inna and Imra Sooaar, Toomas and Anne Raudberg, Mari-Ann Kelam, Enn Sarv, Tunne Kelam, Mart Laar, Tiia-Ester Loitme, Heino Noor and Marju Lauristin
Producer: Thor Halvorssen, James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty
Writer: James Tusty, Maureen Castle Tusty and Mike Majoros
Distributor: Mountain View Productions

Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid, beneath a greasy moptop and a brushy beard) is a misanthropic college prof who, when he’s not willfully forgetting his students’ names or altering clocks to duck office hours, is out peddling a... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Romance» Drama» Comedy»
Release Date: 4/11/2008
Running Time: 93 mins
Director: Noam Murro
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ellen Page, Thomas Haden Church, Ashton Holmes, Christine Lahti, Camille Mana, David Denman, Barret Hackney and Amanda Jane Cooper
Producer: Bill Block, Michael Costigan, Bridget Johnson, Michael London and Bruna Papandrea
Writer: Mark Poirier
Distributor: Miramax Films

In the 1980s, three Mississippi 12-year-olds famously spent six years filming a shot-for-shot VHS remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark . The misfit heroes of writer-director Garth Jennings’s whimsical comedy—two enterprising British... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Comedy»
Release Date: 5/9/2008
Running Time: 96 mins
Director: Garth Jennings
Cast: Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jules Sitruk, Jessica Stevenson, Neil Dudgeon, Anna Wing, Ed Westwick, Eric Sykes, Adam Buxton and Adam Godley
Producer: Nick Goldsmith and Garth Jennings
Writer: Garth Jennings
Distributor: Paramount Vantage

Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series into a prospective franchise, the Matrix masters, Larry and Andy Wachowski, have taken another step toward the total cyborganization of the cinema. Gaudier than a Hindu-temple roof, louder than the... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 5/9/2008
Running Time: 135 mins
Director: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Nicholas Elia, Susan Sarandon, Melissa Holroyd, Ariel Winter, Scott Porter, Gian Ganziano, Peter Fernandez, Harvey Friedman and Sami Loris
Producer: Joel Silver, Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski
Writer: Andy Wachowski, John Lau, Larry Wachowski, Patrick Read Johnson and Tatsuo Yoshida
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

Freud lives and prospers in The Spiderwick Chronicles , an exceptionally oedipal fantasy adventure based on the popular children's novels by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. The story is stuffed with defaulting dads ripe for slaying; a freshly... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  SciFi/Fantasy» Drama» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 2/14/2008
Running Time: 97 mins
Director: Mark S. Waters
Cast: Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn, Seth Rogen and Martin Short
Producer: Mark Canton, Larry Franco, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Karey Kirkpatrick
Writer: David Berenbaum, Holly Black, John Sayles, Karey Kirkpatrick and Tony DiTerlizzi
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Though conceived as yet another sobering frontline report on law enforcement’s ever-expanding gray area, director David Ayer’s grim police thriller mostly plays as one long dick-measuring competition. Keanu Reeves (blank as ever) is Los... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 4/11/2008
Running Time: 107 mins
Director: David Ayer
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Naomie Harris, Jay Mohr, John Corbett, Cedric the Entertainer, Amaury Nolasco and Terry Crews
Producer: Lucas Foster
Writer: James Ellroy and Kurt Wimmer
Distributor: 20th Century Fox/Regency Films

Genre:  Documentary»
Release Date: 1/18/2008
Running Time: 106 mins
Director: Alex Gibney
Cast: Brian Keith Allen, Greg D'Agostino, Maan Kaassamani and Karyn Plonsky
Producer: Alex Gibney
Writer: Alex Gibney
Distributor: ThinkFilm

First-time writer-director Helen Hunt stars as April Epner, a schoolteacher desperate to have a child before she turns 40 (Hunt herself turns 45 this year, but never mind that). Adapted by Hunt and two other writers from Elinor Lipman’s... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Romance» Drama» Comedy»
Release Date: 5/9/2008
Running Time: 100 mins
Director: Helen Hunt
Cast: Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Lynn Cohen, Cherise Boothe, John Benjamin Hickey, Tommy Nelson, Ben Shenkman and Florence Annequin
Producer: Connie Tavel, Helen Hunt, Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler
Writer: Alice Arlen, Helen Hunt and Victor Levin
Distributor: ThinkFilm

Genre:  Romance» Drama» Comedy»
Release Date: 3/21/2008
Running Time: 100 mins
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast: Tyler Perry, David Mann, Tamela Mann, Angela Bassett, Lance Gross, Chloe Bailey, Mariana Tolbert, Rick Fox, Sofia Vergara and Irma P. Hall
Producer: Reuben Cannon
Writer: Tyler Perry
Distributor: Lionsgate Films

Genre:  Drama» Comedy»
Release Date: 10/12/2007
Running Time: 118 mins
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast: Tyler Perry, Sharon Leal, Janet Jackson, Malik Yoba, Jill Scott, Richard T. Jones, Tasha Smith, Michael J. White, Denise Boutte and Lamman Rucker
Producer: Reuben Cannon
Writer: Tyler Perry
Distributor: Lionsgate Films

Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 3/19/2008
Running Time: 109 mins
Director: Patricia Riggen
Cast: Adrian Alonso, Kate Del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez, Maya Zapata, Carmen Salinas, Angelina Pelaez, Gabriel Porras, Maria Rojo, Ignacio Guadalupe and Pailo Heitz
Producer: Patricia Riggen, Ligiah Villalobos, Gerardo Barrera, Norman Dreyfuss and Ram Bergman
Writer: Ligiah Villalobos
Distributor: The Weinstein Company

The Station Agent ’s writer-director, Tom McCarthy, follows up that surprise success with another self-consciously whimsical tale of an unlikely threesome—except this time he decides to get political, making a liberal-guilt-trip movie... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 4/11/2008
Running Time: 108 mins
Director: Tom McCarthy
Cast: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman and Danai Gurira
Producer: Mary Jane Skalski and Michael London
Writer: Tom McCarthy
Distributor: Overture Films

Genre:  Romance» Comedy»
Release Date: 5/3/2008
Running Time: 99 mins
Director: Tom Vaughan
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Cameron Diaz, Queen Latifah, Lake Bell, Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Krusiec, Krysten Ritter, Maddie Corman, Rob Corddry and Jason Sudeikis
Producer: Dean Georgaris and Michael Aguilar
Writer: Dana Fox
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

A brutal crackdown on left-wing dissidents by Brazil's new military dictatorship hardly registers in a country preoccupied with the 1970 World Cup championship. Before 12-year-old Mauro's radical parents go into hiding, they hastily arrange for... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 2/15/2008
Running Time: 110 mins
Director: Cao Hamburger
Cast: Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Paulo Autran, Daniela Piepszyk, Simone Spoladore, Caio Blat and Liliana Castro
Producer: Caio Gullane
Writer: Cao Hamburger and Claudio Galperin
Distributor: City Lights Pictures

Genre:  Documentary»
Release Date: 4/18/2008
Running Time: 107 mins
Director: Stephen Walker
Cast: Young@Heart Chorus and Bob Cilman
Producer: Sally George
Writer: 
Distributor: Fox Searchlight