Clear Blue Tuesday
Want to experience the worst sort of theater without the bother or expense of heading to New York? Take in the new indie film "Clear Blue Tuesday," the first, and hopefully the last, 9/11-themed screen musical. More »

Film Review: 'Machete'
Robert Rodriguez returns to the grindhouse with this entertainingly over-the-top, ultraviolent exploitationer. More »

Film Review: 'The American'
"The American" has a big-time movie star and superb actor in George Clooney; gorgeous Italian settings; a Hitchcockian-thriller scenario; and a talented director in Anton Corbijn. But why doesn't it engage us? More »

Prime Suspect: The Complete Collection
Helen Mirren managed to sum up her "Prime Suspect" character in two words: "a mess." At least that was her half-joking assessment soon after having filmed the last episode in this British crime series More »

Film Review: 'A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop"
"A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop" re-imagines the film "Blood Simple" and transposes the Coen brothers' debut thriller to a whole new world: an isolated outpost in the desolate desert beyond the Great Wall of China. More »

The Last Exorcism
"The Last Exorcism" serves up enough suspense and spine-tingling chills to be favorably compared with that other little movie that came out in 1973 with "Exorcist" in the title. More »

Mésrine: Killer Instinct
In a career spanning 17 years, Jacques Mésrine robbed banks—sometimes two in one day—and kidnapped millionaires, judges, journalists, and others. More »

Mao's Last Dancer
Based on Li Cunxin's best-selling autobiography, "Mao's Last Dancer" is an emotionally compelling film about a peasant boy from China and his meteoric rise to international stardom as a world-class ballet dancer. More »

Piranha 3D
"Piranha 3D" is a pitch-perfect, guilty-pleasure serving of late-summer schlock that handily nails the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the Roger Corman original. More »

The Big C
A solidly entertaining diagnosis that needs to regulate its intake of quirk. More »

The Expendables
Sylvester Stallone and his cast of fellow action stars flex substantial ensemble muscle in this high-energy battle between good mercenaries and bad mercenaries. More »

Eat Pray Love
From the very beginning of her career it has been clear Julia Roberts has that indefinable something that lights up a movie screen, an "it" factor that separates her from the pack. More »

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Welcome to the realm of "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World," the outlandish, often hilarious, adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic book. More »

Animal Kingdom
Writer and first-time feature director David Michôd delivers a superbly crafted metaphor in the Australian crime drama "Animal Kingdom." More »

Cairo Time
While Ruba Nadda's film is marketed as a romance with the exotic Egyptian capital, in reality the film is the quiet and complex unfolding of romance between two adults. More »

Middle Men
Writer-director George Gallo's "Middle Men," chronicling the birth of the multibillion-dollar Internet porn industry, marches to the beat of its own drummer. More »

Flipped
Director Rob Reiner has finally crafted a companion piece to his 1986 landmark coming-of-age drama "Stand by Me." More »

Twelve
"Gossip Girl" leads the world to believe Manhattan's under-20's live with high fashion, glamorous parties, and sexy intrigue. "Twelve" paints a significantly darker picture. More »

The Disappearance Of Alice Creed
Writer-director J Blakeson's twisting, turning film about an abduction creates tension with visual ideas that well-serve the script. More »

The Extra Man
"The Extra Man" is a charming dramedy recounting the evolving relationships among a bevy of New York eccentrics including aging kook (Kevin Kline), and a hirsute neighbor (John C. Reilly). More »

The Concert
A wonderful film with big laughs, a big heart, and great music, "The Concert" is also blessed to have a terrific international cast and a plot with screwball high jinks and earnest human comedy. More »

Get Low
Part legend, part folk tale, "Get Low" is a master class in acting, despite a story that doesn't quite compute. More »

Charlie St. Cloud
An unstable mix of youth romance, metaphysical idealism and tropes that seemingly belong in a horror film. Zac Efron plays Charlie as your average young movie-star hunk. More »

Dinner for Schmucks
Steve Carell finds a character more clueless than Michael Scott in broad laffer redeemed by occasional quirks. More »

Film Review: 'The Dry Land'
Ryan Piers Williams' film "The Dry Land" brings to light the searing plight of the American soldier, not in the throes of action but back home after service to country. More »