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The plots thicken

9/11 Truthers, Tea Parties, Birthers — conspiracy is in the air. No wonder Hollywood is embracing paranoia.
Eight years after the destruction of the World Trade Center — the result of one of the most devastatingly successful conspiracies in history — Americans still take comfort in paranoia.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 11, 2009

Review: Gamer

It's a bit tough to swallow
This film from Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor features two fictional games: Society and Slayers , and both involve the mind control of volunteers by gamers who pay to play.

By: MADDY MYERS | September 09, 2009

Review: All About Steve

They should have called it "There's Something Insane About Mary"
How is it that the absolute worst "chick flicks" of the summer were written by women?

By: BRETT MICHEL | September 09, 2009

Review: Extract

Mike Judge goes back to work
I'm hard-pressed to say, though, whether Extract is a significant leap forward for Judge in terms of story or just not as funny as his earlier work.

By: MARK BAZER | September 02, 2009

Love letter

Gerald Peary's ode to the film critic
Rock critics rarely cut gold records. Likewise, few football reporters go on to quarterback Super Bowl winners.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | September 03, 2009

Review: The Final Destination

Can-we-cheat-death exercise takes a fourth go-round
David R. Ellis, who helmed Final Destination 2 , pretty much reworks the exact same shebang here.

By: TOM MEEK | September 02, 2009

Review: Halloween II

Rob Zombie's newest bloody mess
Rob Zombie's remake of a sequel to a film he remade begins where his previous film left off.

By: BRETT MICHEL | September 02, 2009

Review: My One and Only

A side of George Hamilton seldom seen these days
If you've thought of George Hamilton only as a B-celeb with a Day-Glo perma-tan, think again.

By: TOM MEEK | September 02, 2009

First look at James Cameron's Avatar

Titanic Gamble
James Cameron captained the biggest box-office smash of all time, his Titanic having grossed nearly $2 billion worldwide. But that was 12 years ago, long before the recession appeared on anyone's radar.

By: BRETT MICHEL | August 26, 2009

Interview: Quentin Tarantino

The director talks Basterds
Quentin Tarantino began writing the screenplay for Inglourious Basterds more than 10 years ago. When I got him on the phone, he talked about the film's long gestation and how he chose his actors.

By: KAM WILLIAMS | August 18, 2009

Review: Inglourious Basterds

Payback for Hitler in Inglourious Basterds
From the beginning, Tarantino's obsessive self-referentiality and movie allusions never let you forget that you're watching a film.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 24, 2009

Review: The Time Traveler's Wife

One obnoxious romance
Long a staple of sci-fi, time travel makes its chick-flick debut in Robert Schwentke's adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's novel.

By: SHAULA CLARK | August 19, 2009

Review: Post Grad

Kooky!
Vicky Jenson's grainy Little Miss Sunshine spawn starts promisingly, with Carol Burnett as a caftan-clad coffin dodger inhaling oxygen and a bag of Cheetos.

By: ALICIA POTTER | August 19, 2009

Review: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

Idiotic, but not a total lemon
Cash for clunkers? Not completely.

By: SHAULA CLARK | August 19, 2009

Review: Spread

God, is it uncomfortable
If only there were some way to watch a con-artist houseboy give his cougar sugar mama a squirming reach-around, charm the pants off a candy-necklace string of countless empty-eyed Hollywood stick figures, lose his heart to an untouchable social chameleon, and, in the process, find himself .

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | August 19, 2009

Review: Ponyo

Visually stunning, but leaves you shaking your head
In a film like Spirited Away (2001), Hayao Miyazaki takes flight and creates his own seductive animated universe. When tied to a Disney fable about the environment and true love, he lurches from cliché to myth to things that just leave you shaking your head.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 12, 2009

Review: Bandslam

Where the Disney Channel and MTV2 intersect
This Todd Graff film suggests a year's worth of Degrassi plots squished into one overcomplicated bouillon cube.

By: SHAULA CLARK | August 12, 2009

Review: GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra

If only they'd brought Mr. Potato Head into the mix.
In the hands of director Stephen Sommers, who did better with the Mummy series, Joe looks like a cheap video game brightened by good actors.

By: TOM MEEK | August 13, 2009

Review: District 9

Apartheid gets the sci-fi treatment
You have never seen anything like District 9 — or so went the early buzz for Neill Blomkamp's feature-length directorial debut. The concept is the stuff nerdgasms are made of: a vérité sci-fi thriller set in an alternate-reality South Africa where 2.5 million Cthulhu-faced bug aliens crash-land into human society and a zillion boffo explosions ensue.

By: SHAULA CLARK | August 12, 2009

Review: Cold Souls

Paul Giamatti can't heat up Cold Souls
What if human souls were as interchangeable as hearts, kidneys, movie concepts, and auto parts? Writer/director Sophie Barthes's feature debut toys with the notion, but instead of breaking new ground, Cold Souls settles for rehashing elements from other films.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 17, 2009

Review: A Perfect Getaway

Well-crafted, entertaining pulp
David Twohy's film may be pulp, but it's well-crafted, entertaining pulp.

By: JEREMY MASSLER | August 13, 2009

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