Documentary of an "American Idol"-type show in Afghanistan is sometimes slow but never dull because the stakes are far higher there than they are here.
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.
Two lost souls find a reason to live in this poignant, charming, depressing and hysterical claymation presentation.
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.
Penélope Cruz struts her stuff in this otherwise very disappointing Pedro Almodóvar film.
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.
Whoring, drinking trucker-chick’s young son reappears in her life in this formulaic, predictable mess.
John Krasinski’s directorial debut feels more like an acting exercise than a movie – like walking into a group therapy session for monologists.
Duty and desire face off in "An Education," the wonderfully stylish and seductive film by director Lone Scherfig.
The Coen Brothers leave us scratching our heads with this low-budget, no-name, inscrutable black comedy set in 1967 Minnesota.
