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The Book of Eli continues the string of apocalyptic tales. It has style, it has action, but it also has something that sets it apart from even the...

Ever seen Kindergarten Cop? How about The Pacifier, Daddy Day Care or Are We There Yet? Basically, if you answer yes to any of these, well, then...

Those hoping for glimpses of Peter Jackson's stunning foray into dream-like drama with 1994's Heavenly Creatures will be sorely disappointed in The...

Daybreakers takes the vampire genre in some new directions, but it can't memorably resolve its story. With strong atmosphere and respectable...

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is so bursting with visual wonders and ideas about faith and belief that one viewing can't do it justice. With...

In what's basically a remake of Frank Capra's It Happened One Night set in the always-photogenic Irish countryside, Amy Adams and Matthew Goode do...

Michael Cera is a star. If you didn’t know it after his role on Arrested Development, or his turns in Juno and Superbad, or after he shared top...

Between serving up a pitch-perfect portrayal of Julia Child in this summer's Julie & Julia, voicing George Clooney's wife in Fantastic Mr. Fox and...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective has been reinvented for the Jason Bourne age. Adding to the brawn and brains is a dash of romance. But the main...

Even with pop music at the center of Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, the filmmakers behind the second big-screen installment of Alvin and...

In yet another instance where a trailer doesn't remotely match the tone of the actual film, (yes, the only funny bits were there, but the end...

The intense publicity, as well as several ecstatic early reviews, have set the bar very high. But Avatar doesn't come anywhere near clearing that...

Even with five Oscar-winning actresses delivering fantastic performances without really having that much to work with, the screen adaptation of...

The Young Victoria is not the best film currently playing, or even a particularly good one, because the story has a split personality. But some...

Disney gets nostalgic and tries capitalizing on everything that's worked so well in the past, while taking advantage of new technology. Not only...