Spike Jonze’s beautifully audacious and sadly flawed film brings Maurice Sendak’s much-beloved, nine-sentence children’s story to vivid, CGI-enhanced life. If only he had kept it a short story.
Oppressively, but appropriately, bleak adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s end-of-the-world novel about a father and son wandering a post-apocalyptic landscape. Points for strong performances from the two leads and the film’s unyielding view of the end of days.
On the surface, "Couples Retreat" appears to be a quickly stitched together comedy that places a bunch of likable actors in a tropical setting for some cheap laughs. And that’s exactly what it is.
This high-concept comedy, about the first person to develop the ability to lie, is wildly uneven but features a few laughs, cameos galore, and an indictment of organized religion that would make Bill Maher proud.
The undead live on in this broad, crowd-pleasing – and gleefully gory – comedy about the inevitable "zombie apocalypse".
Like the titular avatars in this graphic novel adaptation, "Surrogates" is a rote whodunit masquerading as a techno-thriller.
Playful adaptation from Steven Soderbergh features Matt Damon, 30 pounds heavier, whose beautifully nuanced take on wide-eyed naiveté saves this otherwise pointless goof.
Delightfully witty, feature-length adaptation of the popular children’s book doesn’t have the emotional heft to take its place among the great animated classics, but when it rains it soars.
An adequate thriller – complete with scares, red herrings and a nonsensical twist-ending ““ which exploits its Antarctic surroundings for all their worth.
Mike Judge returns to form with this amusing, if oddly misogynistic, workplace comedy set in a flavor extract factory.
