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"American Dreamz" attempts to throw a bone to everyone watching. If director Paul Weitz really wanted to use the film as a springboard for his worldview and opinions, he should’ve taken a cue from better executed, less wishy-washy satire like "Wag the Dog" or "Election."

Two great actors and a great director have teamed up for the not-so-great American Gangster, yet another look at one man’s rise to power and his struggle to maintain hold of that power as the law moves in.

American Reunion is about what you’d expect—a teen sex comedy about characters that long ago left their teenage years behind.

Even if your little Tommy or Sally is more virtuous than the teenagers seen here, at the very least it's fair to say that while levels of conduct vary, American Teen honestly portrays how every teenager feels—and does so in compelling fashion.

Director Anton Corbijn creates a moody but minimalist atmosphere in The American. The camera is mostly static, music scarcely heard, and shots linger. While thrillers usually depend on opposite tactics to set the tone, Corbijn strips those away—instead allowing circumstance and psychology alone to create confusion and build tension.

With stunning cinematography that is so beautiful it looks almost computer-generated (it’s not), “America’s Heart and Soul” is the perfect movie to celebrate the hardworking, persevering people who make up this great country of ours, and who live to fulfill their dreams.

Even though Billy Crystal gets less screen time this time around, one of the movie highlights is his performance when he's thrown into the middle of the mob and has a hilarious change of personality that even surprises Vitti (Robert De Niro).

If you find yourself howling with laughter throughout “Saturday Night Live” skits every weekend, then you’ll really bust a gut with this one, starring SNL alum Will Ferrell. Be sure to take your whoopee cushion to the theatre. Otherwise, bypass this like a white polyester suit.

On film, Angels & Demons is rewritten to follow the events of The Da Vinci Code. And so Christians are perhaps not unjustified in expecting this prequel/sequel to deal with our faith in a heavy-handed fashion. But it does not.

Rather than a straight reenactment of the grim Russian morality tale, the filmmakers decided to tell the story as if it happened on stage.

A few weeks after the successful debut of "Glory Road," Disney tries to win audiences again by combining war and sports in "Annapolis," a new film set at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. It’s surprising, therefore, that the film is only tangentially about war — and not altogether about sports.

Even Anglophiles might get lost in this convoluted historical drama that thinks it’s clever, but is mainly just overheated.

Despite an arresting idea and admirable execution, this drama fails. The problem: Another Earth needs another screenplay.

In The Answer Man, Arlen Faber (Jeff Daniels) is a writer who doesn’t know his subject very well. In fact, when it comes to people, let alone matters of faith, Arlen, the author of Me and God, couldn’t be more clueless.

There is something mechanical about "The Ant Bully," and the writers seem to rely heavily on scatological humor to juice up their formulaic script. My eleven-year-old son insists that “Kids love that stuff, Mom." But anyone over eleven might wish they had held out for “Barnyard,” which opens in theaters next week.

Denzel Washington directs this wonderful story that gently unfolds the layers of truth, abuse, and disappointments that have shaped Fisher's life, revealing a young man who can't go forward because of his past.

With Apocalypto, there is no central theological debate as there was with The Passion of the Christ. No ties to European ancestry and national pride, as in Braveheart. No, this film is a savage, repellant work that raises serious questions about director Mel Gibson’s interest in the worst kinds of human suffering.

“Aquamarine” is aimed straight at the often neglected tween market, giving girls that taste of fairy tale fantasy they don’t want to give up too quickly AND pulling them into some well-conceived, real girl issues that interest them greatly at this age.