Review: Planet 51 Really Familiar—And Not in a Good Way Review in a Hurry: Sure, every story has already been told, but there still could have been a smidgen of originality in this role-reversal alien-invasion pic. Staring bright animation and the...
Review: The Blind Side All Heartstrings and Sandra Bullock Review in a Hurry: The Blind Side doesn't pretend to be anything but a heartstrings-tugging "feel good" movie. Swelling music, tearful epiphanies, all that sentimental crap is here in...
Review: Nic Cage at His Crazy Best in Bad Lieutenant Review in a Hurry: You may have heard that Nicolas Cage acts completely insane in the title role of a New Orleans cop who becomes a heavy drug user. It's true...but "completely insane"...
Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox Just Simply Fantastic Review in a Hurry: Awkward-humor auteur Wes Anderson, Oscar-winner George Clooney, and Willy Wonka creator Roald Dahl come together for a stop-motion animated feature that doesn't seem like it...
Review: 2012 Is Total Disaster-Porn Overload! Review in a Hurry: Beyond ridiculous and overstuffed with dizzying computer effects, director Roland Emmerich's 2012 is a disaster pic that pulls no destructive punches. But at more than 2.5...
Review: Precious Is Everything Oprah Says It Is Review in a Hurry: How about this for a night at the movies: Emotional and physical abuse, incest, and a role that will forever taint the usually jolly image of comedienne Mo'Nique. Precious...
Review: Napoleon Dynamite + Battlefield Earth = Gentlemen Broncos! Review in a Hurry: An odd attempt at satirizing the world of pulp sci-fi writers. This confused tale of a boy with a promising manuscript, the girl who tries to make a low-budget movie out of it,...
Review: Paranormal Activity Real Simple, Real Scary Originally published Sept. 25, 2009
Review in a Hurry: One of the decade's scariest films arrives without the hype that surrounded the soon-to-be compared with The Blair...
Review: Astro Boy Missing Iconic Kid-Robot Charm Review in a Hurry: One of the original icons of Japanese anime—the robot boy with the atomic heart—gets a Hollywood upgrade in this sporadically entertaining but somewhat muddled...
Review: The Vampire's Assistant Only Kinda Sucks Review in a Hurry: Can't get your fill of bloodsuckers? Then drink up, hard-core fang fans, because Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant doesn't totally suck, though it's not...
Should you go see New Moon? Does it matter what we say? You're going to see New Moon. But if you have any lingering doubts about the second film in The Twilight Saga, we're here to help....
Review in a Hurry: Sure, every story has already been told, but there still could have been a smidgen of originality in this role-reversal alien-invasion pic. Staring bright animation and the...
Review in a Hurry: The Blind Side doesn't pretend to be anything but a heartstrings-tugging "feel good" movie. Swelling music, tearful epiphanies, all that sentimental crap is here in...
Review in a Hurry: You may have heard that Nicolas Cage acts completely insane in the title role of a New Orleans cop who becomes a heavy drug user. It's true...but "completely insane"...
Review in a Hurry: Rock 'n' roll and the high seas make an unlikely but jolly combination in this exuberantly directed film by Love, Actually writer-director Richard Curtis. Wisely, Curtis...
Review in a Hurry: Awkward-humor auteur Wes Anderson, Oscar-winner George Clooney, and Willy Wonka creator Roald Dahl come together for a stop-motion animated feature that doesn't seem like it...
Review in a Hurry: Beyond ridiculous and overstuffed with dizzying computer effects, director Roland Emmerich's 2012 is a disaster pic that pulls no destructive punches. But at more than 2.5...
Review in a Hurry: How about this for a night at the movies: Emotional and physical abuse, incest, and a role that will forever taint the usually jolly image of comedienne Mo'Nique. Precious...
Review in a Hurry: Ditched by his wife, reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) makes a semi-suicidal beeline for Iraq. There he encounters apparent psychic soldier Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who...
Review in a Hurry: Actress Milla Jovovich, in the role of Actress Milla Jovovich, hosts an odd mashup of supposedly "found" footage and reenacted scenes featuring herself and other name...
Review in a Hurry: No "humbugs" here. Disney animates Charles Dickens' timeless tale of a Christmas-hating miser without, well, Disney-fying it. Devoted Dickens fans will even...
Review in a Hurry: This preposterous Cameron Diaz thriller offers a promising premise: A mysterious box bestows riches in exchange for killing a stranger. But then it dumps in existentialism,...
Review in a Hurry: An odd attempt at satirizing the world of pulp sci-fi writers. This confused tale of a boy with a promising manuscript, the girl who tries to make a low-budget movie out of it,...
Review in a Hurry: The legions of fans who have bought their tickets to experience Michael Jackson's last performance need only know that thankfully, This Is It is just that.
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Originally published Sept. 25, 2009
Review in a Hurry: One of the decade's scariest films arrives without the hype that surrounded the soon-to-be compared with The Blair...
Review in a Hurry: Capitalism beware! Michael Moore was a pussycat compared to Saw's John "Jigsaw" Kramer (Tobin Bell), whose we-mean-it-this-time last posthumous wish was apparently...
Review in a Hurry: Hilary Swank dons more than just a pilot's cap to become Amelia Earhart, legendary '30s aviator and folk hero. But in this careful and bland biopic, the two-time Oscar...
Review in a Hurry: One of the original icons of Japanese anime—the robot boy with the atomic heart—gets a Hollywood upgrade in this sporadically entertaining but somewhat muddled...
Review in a Hurry: Can't get your fill of bloodsuckers? Then drink up, hard-core fang fans, because Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant doesn't totally suck, though it's not...
Review in a Hurry: Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler star in a ridiculous vigilante, revenge fantasy flick that gets so tangled in the knotty issue of justice, it ends up strangling itself with...
