Fitfully hilarious but so much less than the sum of its parts, Christopher Guest's post-mockumentary take on the awards-season vanity derby is redundant and catastrophically wide of the mark. Recycling read more …

The Fountain's plot almost defies description, and it certainly dares you to keep a straight face. Tom Creo (Hugh Jackman) is a medical researcher whose wife, Izzi (Rachel Weisz) is dying of cancer. read more …

Turning Eric Schlosser's nonfiction expose into an Altmanesque tableau, Richard Linklater grafts the book's concerns onto an ensemble cast of fast-food casualties: Greg Kinnear's compromised flack,

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The story of pedophile priest Oliver O'Grady, who was allowed to run amok in Southern California parishes for more than 20 years, Deliver Us From Evil is a searing indictment of the Catholic read more …

Jeremy Brock's charmless coming-of-ager pits a sheltered 16-year-old (Rupert Grint, the Harry Potter franchise's Ron Weasely) against a kooky retired actress (Julie Walters) whom he's read more …

Nuri Bilge Ceylan is one of the world's great visual stylists, and I'd like to smash his face in. Or maybe not him, maybe just Isa, the spineless, loathsome creature he plays in Climates. A little read more …

Without taking any credit away from the Sex Pistols or Black Sabbath, Paul Rachman's blast of a documentary makes the case that the single most important figure in the development of American hardcore read more …

A rabbit's warren of temporal crisscrosses, feuding philosophies and elaborate schemes, Lady Vengeance takes the baroque moralism of Park Chanwook's trilogy to dizzying heights. Lady Vengeance's

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It's tempting to slot Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck's engaging documentary in with the rest of the left-wing agit-docs. Shadowing the Dixie Chicks in the wake of singer Natalie Maines' statement that read more …

At once burned by and defiant in the face of The Village's critical drubbing and mild returns, M. Night Shyamalan recycles its central premise but dumps the cultural resonance. A self-conscious

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