Eli Roth loves to make an audience squirm. That isn't idle speculation; the director was in attendance at Hostel's Philly screening and watched gleefully from the wings during the climactic read more …

Eli Roth loves to make an audience squirm. That isn't idle speculation; the director was in attendance at Hostel's Philly screening and watched gleefully from the wings during the climactic read more …

By the very act of invoking The Graduate, Rob Reiner's latest makes a tacit admission: Mainstream American film has gotten old and boring. Reiner's own employment, as a last-minute read more …

The season's second extended-family comedy deals with the problem of writing for 20 kids by largely ignoring them, concentrating instead on the slapstick-inducing rivalry between heads-of-household read more …

Yes, it's that Christmas movie again: Throw a bunch of diametrically opposed types together in a room and wait for the holiday's warming glow to force the various polar opposites together. read more …

Blame the Farrelly brothers. Not so much for the comedy of extreme physical abuse (of which there is plenty here), but for the accompanying heart-on-sleeve sentimentality. Making a film both mushy and read more …

Be grateful that Raja Gosnell has such a unique name. Like the distinctive markings of a monarch butterfly, it's a clear warning to stay away. After managing to drain the meager life out of even read more …

In the closing moments of Chicken Little, the story we've just seen is co-opted by Hollywood and turned into a big, dumb action flick for a few digs at by-the-numbers moviemaking. A tad read more …

At times like this, one is inspired to channel one's inner Gene Shalit, though I'm not entirely sure if this qualifies as a laugh-a-minute thrill ride or a roller coaster of adventure. In read more …

The sort of indie cast-off usually relegated to the 2 p.m. Tuesday slot at an overstuffed film festival, Duane Hopwood emerges from the Sundance graveyard solely on the strength of David Schwimmer's read more …