"Baby Mama" (Universal/Relativity) is a frequently funny but morally problematic romantic comedy about one woman's obsession with having a child.
: Apr 25, 2008
"Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" (Premise/Rampant) is a provocative documentary that focuses on the conflict between adherents of what is called today Neo-Darwinism, which denies any such purposeful providence, and proponents of the alternate theory of intelligent design, known as ID.
: Apr 25, 2008
"Forgetting Sarah Marshall" (Universal), the latest romantic comedy from the producer of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up," is often touching and funny. But, like its predecessors, it is also frequently vulgar.
: Apr 17, 2008
"88 Minutes" (TriStar) is a shoddy, strictly B-level thriller set in Seattle about Jack Gramm (Al Pacino), a forensic psychiatrist whose testimony leads to death sentence for serial killer Jon Forster (Neal McDonough).
: Apr 17, 2008
This modest little film is just endearing enough to earn some sort of cult status before long.
: Feb 22, 2008
As a wise man once said, it all depends on how you look at it. The aptly named "Vantage Point" (Columbia), a propulsive thriller about an attempted assassination of a U.S. president (William Hurt), gives us the same events in the same time frame from eight disparate perspectives.
: Feb 22, 2008
"Heart speaks to heart." This motto, popularized by the great Victorian churchman Cardinal John Henry Newman, establishes the ambitious theme of "Charlie Bartlett".
: Feb 22, 2008
In an unseen world of goblins, sprites and ogres, an ordinary family gets caught up in the epic struggle between good and evil, discovering the need for teamwork along the way. Such is the worthy theme of "The Spiderwick Chronicles"
: Feb 15, 2008
Imagine yourself in a terrible scrape, your life about to end, and in no time flat, you can disappear and re-emerge safely in Paris, Tokyo, among the pyramids, or in your very own bedroom.
: Feb 15, 2008
"Rambo" (Lionsgate), the latest offering in a franchise begun in 1982, is remarkable only for the toxic level of graphic violence enabled by recent advances in special effects.
: Jan 25, 2008
"Untraceable" (Screen Gems) is a grimly unpleasant thriller concerning an Internet killer who tortures kidnapped victims on a Web site he calls "killswithme.com."
: Jan 25, 2008