16 Oct 2008
Style triumphs over substance in this video game turned into a film - "Max Payne" is a banal revenge melodrama-cum-detective story, but fans of the video game on which it is based should not be alarmed. The crews on .. read more
10 Oct 2008
This testosterone-driven road comedy is more typical than Judd Apatow - Trying for reheated "American Pie" if served up by Judd Apatow, the raunchy "Sex Drive" is by no means "Superbad," but thanks to a likable cast, neither is .. read more
10 Oct 2008
No one expects confection from British sobersides Mike Leigh, so his light-as-air new film "Happy-Go-Lucky" is as surprising as it is delicious with an .. read more
10 Oct 2008
It has taken less than a decade, but the concept of horror films filmed documentary-style has officially become a tiresome cliche. This latest example .. read more
10 Oct 2008
Dennis Quaid scores an emotional touchdown in this sturdy, factual .. - It's straight out of the inspirational sports-drama playbook, but "The Express," based on the tragically short life of college football hero Ernie Davis -- .. read more
10 Oct 2008
A fantasy film that appeals only to very young people - Fox Walden's film of Jeanne Duprau's children's book "City of Ember" stalls at the intersection of fantasy and science fiction. While the story line harkens .. read more
10 Oct 2008
A new kind of spy movie as dark as night and as ruthless and vile as .. - If Ridley Scott gave us a new kind of war movie with "Black Hawk Down," where an army unit functioning in total chaos in a hostile city became a collective .. read more
3 Oct 2008
As a comedy routine about the absurdity of religious fundamentalism, Bill Maher's "Religulous" is very, very funny. As a serious discussion of religion and .. read more
3 Oct 2008
VENICE -- Jonathan Demme, last in Venice with "The Manchurian Candidate," breathes a breath of honest cinema into a lackluster competition with "Rachel .. read more
3 Oct 2008
A film that sets out to demonstrate the shallows of celebrity-obsessed pop journalism should at least offer a few fully fleshed characters, if only as a .. read more