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Youth Without Youth

Reaching for the stars
Try telling Francis Coppola that, especially since he hasn’t uncorked a lulu like this one since From the Heart .

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 19, 2007

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Easy jokes? Absolutely
Stupid? Sure, but laced with a strange sense of logic.

By: BRETT MICHEL | December 19, 2007

P.S. I Love You

A middling effort for Hilary Swank
Gerry is the perfect dead man, showing up shirtless à la Ghost or in stagy flashbacks.

By: ALICIA POTTER | December 19, 2007

Charlie Wilson's War

Waged by amiable actors
The supporting players are splendid.

By: GERALD PEARY | December 19, 2007

War and Peace

Seven hours is not enough
So, no, Bondarchuk’s War and Peace is not really Tolstoy’s. Then again, short of a 20-hour TV mini-series with Russian actors, you won’t see better.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 18, 2007

The Savages

Fear and self-laceration
I’m glad to see the return of director Tamara Jenkins, idle since her wonderful Slums of Beverly Hills (1998).

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 18, 2007

Bell jarring

Schnabel’s Butterfly is the year’s best
So far this year, the efforts to adapt books deemed unfilmable have proved just that.

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 18, 2007

Tim Burton’s latest is bloody good
If it weren’t for his beloved turn as Jack Sparrow in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Johnny Depp would best be known as the cinematic alter ego of Tim Burton.

By: BRETT MICHEL | December 18, 2007

The Yacoubian Building

Three-hour Egyptian epic
A massive Arabic soap opera, a Cairo-based Gone with the Wind.

By: MICHAEL ATKINSON | December 12, 2007

What Would Jesus Buy?

Shopocalypse flop
As much as Talen believes his shill, he’s a performance artist posing as a preacher, on a mission conceived with and funded by his producers.

By: BRETT MICHEL | December 12, 2007

The Perfect Holiday

A fruitcake of a film
Struggling songwriter Benjamin works part-time as a mall Santa.

By: TOM MEEK | December 12, 2007

Outsourced

Ah, globalism
When Todd Anderson loses his job managing a Seattle catalogue-fulfillment call center, he soon finds himself on a plane to India . . . to train his own replacement.

By: BRETT MICHEL | December 12, 2007

Io e Napoleone/Napoleon and Me

Underdeveloped (and badly packaged)
This might look better on the big screen, but it would still be just a good idea that Virzi never developed.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 12, 2007

Alvin and the Chipmunks

All funked up
Depending on when you were born and how much affection you have for a trio of singing rodents, Alvin and the Chipmunks may be a tough sell.

By: BROOKE HOLGERSON | December 12, 2007

Lynch (One)

Utterly otherworldly
An intimate look at the creative process of a man who has brought nightmares and dreams alive in cinema as no one before or since.

By: PEG ALOI | December 12, 2007

Kite club

Simplified Runner not up to speed
In spite of being lovingly realized and creatively cast, The Kite Runner is a simplistic adaptation of a powerful, multi-layered story.

By: CHRIS WANGLER | December 12, 2007

Legend of the last

It all comes down to Will power
They all start the same way.

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 12, 2007

Pregnant pause

Juno is in the family way
Jason Reitman’s film makes the most of a few great ideas.

By: CHRIS BRAIOTTA | December 12, 2007

Protagonist

Modern tragidocumentary
A gay former evangelist, a kung fu expert, a German terrorist, and a bank robber walk into a documentary.

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 05, 2007

How To Cook Your Life

Bring coffee
Adored by students, immune to his tantrums (he cries more than the cast of Spider-Man 3 ), Brown is still an easy-going charmer.

By: BRETT MICHEL | December 05, 2007

Darfur Now

A call to action
Theodore Braun’s probing documentary about the genocide crisis in Darfur takes a hopeful approach.

By: TOM MEEK | December 05, 2007

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