43% Night at the Museum
Parents might call this either a spectacle-filled adventure or a shallow and vapid CG-fest, depending on whether they choose to embrace this on the same level as their kids.
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67% Pursuit of Happyness
Will Smith�s heartfelt performance elevates The Pursuit of Happyness above mere melodrama.
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91% Children of Men
Children of Men works on every level: as a violent chase thriller, a fantastical cautionary tale, and a sophisticated human drama about societies struggling to live. This taut and thought-provoking tale may not have the showy special effects normally found in movies of this genre, but you won't care one bit after the story kicks in, about a dystopic future where women can no longer conceive and hope lies within one woman who holds the key to humanity's survival. It will have you riveted.
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66% Freedom Writers
Freedom Writers is a frank, formulaic entry in the inspirational inner-city teacher genre, with an energetic Hilary Swank leading the appealing cast of unknowns.
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80% Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls' simple characters and plot hardly detract from the movie�s real feats: the electrifying performances and the dazzling musical numbers.
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71% Miss Potter
A charming biopic with that maintains its sweetness even in sadder moments.
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62% Alpha Dog
In the sprawling, privileged neighborhoods around L.A., bored teenagers with too much time and too much money string one hazy day into another, looking for the next thrill--doing suburban imitations of the thug life they idolize from rap music, video games and movies.
29% Arthur and the Invisibles
It all began with a cryptic message left in an old book of magic spells. "To find the country of the Minimoys, trust in Shakespeare."
Primeval
In one of the most remote places on earth, a bloodthirsty serial killer has claimed over 300 victims, and is still at large to this day.
75% Tears of the Black Tiger
FAH TALAI JONE is the tragic love story of 'Rumpoey,' a daughter of a noble family, and 'Sua Dum' (the Black Tiger), an outlaw and the pawn of fate.
98% The Queen
Full of wit, humor, and pathos, Stephen Frears� moving portrait of the British royals during the period after Princess Diana's death features not one but two remarkable performances, that of Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II and Michael Sheen as the newly-ordained Prime Minister Tony Blair. They embody their characters and lay bare the motivations behind these prominent people, giving viewers a glimpse into the inner workings of the British monarchy.
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88% Last King of Scotland
Forest Whitaker's performance as real-life megalomaniac dictator Idi Amin powers this fictionalized political thriller, a blunt and brutal tale about power and corruption.
47% Breaking and Entering
This class warfare drama feels contrived and superficial: characters don�t act logically as the movie manipulates them towards deconstructing various social issues.
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Hitcher
Dave Meyers makes his feature directorial debut on the new thriller, which tracks the terrifying trajectory of Grace Andrews (Sophia Bush) and Jim Halsey (Zachary Knighton), a collegiate couple who are tormented by the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder, a.k.a. The Hitcher (Sean Bean). The young couple hit the road in a 1970 Oldsmobile 442, en route to spring break.
Smokin' Aces
An incendiary array of stars -- including Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Peter Berg, Martin Henderson, Taraji Henson and, in their motion -- picture debuts, Alicia Keys and Common -- star in Smokin' Aces, the new dark action comedy from Joe Carnahan, the acclaimed director of Narc.
94% Casino Royale
Casino Royale disposes of the silliness and gadgetry that plagued recent James Bond outings, and Daniel Craig delivers what fans and critics have been waiting for: a caustic, haunted, intense reinvention of 007. But scribes also note "Casino" is hardly morose, with enough stunning action sequences and in-jokes to please the diehards. Some pundits even go so far as to say that Daniel Craig is the best Bond since Sean Connery.
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93% The Departed
The Departed is a thoroughly engrossing gangster drama with the gritty authenticity and soupy morality that has infused director Martin Scorceses past triumphs. Featuring outstanding work from an excellent cast that includes Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon, some critics say the film even tops its source material (the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs). The Departedmarks a triumphant return to form for Scorsese; it's his best-reviewed film since GoodFellas.
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92% Little Miss Sunshine
What happens when you stuff a failed motivation speaker, his wife, the nation's number one Proust scholar, an elderly potty-mouthed heroin addict, a teen who�s mute by choice, and a bespectacled little pageant hopeful into a mini VW bus for a three day road trip? You get this hilarious but moving satire about a dysfunctional family obsessed with winning. Credit must go to the ensemble cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Alan Arkin, and Abigail Breslin and the delightfully funny script by Michael Arndt, which first-time directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris handled perfectly.
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92% Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Jagshemash! Borat gets high-fives almost all-around for being offensive in the funniest possible way. Part satire, part shockumentary, Borat stars Sacha Baron Cohen as the gleefully sexist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic title character on a cross-country trek to learn more about our strange nation; along the way he dredges up the seamy underbelly of American prejudice and ignorance. Now the cat is out of the bag, what will Cohen do for an encore?
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81% Charlotte's Web
Kids will be entertained by the straightforward plot and cute animals, and adults will be charmed by how quiet and humble the production is, a fine translation of E.B. White�s genteel prose.
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77% Happy Feet
Visually dazzling, with a thoughtful storyline and catchy musical numbers, Happy Feet marks a successful animated debut from the makers of Babe.
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77% Rocky Balboa
Implausible but entertaining and poignant, Rocky Balboa finds the champ in fighting form for the first time in years.
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74% Prestige
Full of twists and turns, The Prestige is a dazzling period piece that never stops challenging the audience.
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70% Babel
In Babel, there are no villains, only victims of fate and circumstance. Director Alejandro Gonzalez I�arritu weaves four of their woeful stories into this mature and multidimensional film.
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65% Apocalypto
Apocalypto is a brilliantly filmed, if mercilessly bloody, examination of a once great civilization.
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60% Blood Diamond
Blood Diamond overcomes poor storytelling with its biting commentary and fine performances.
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58% Deja Vu
Tony Scott tries to combine action, science fiction, romance, and explosions into one movie, but the time travel conceit might be too preposterous and the action falls apart under scrutiny.
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56% Polar Express
Though the movie is visually stunning overall, the animation for the human characters isn't lifelike enough, and the story is padded.
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56% Flicka
The rebellious protagonist will rally girls and children, but adults may find Flicka saddled with thin characters, over-the-top dialogue, and a plot that wanders into the countryside and never comes back.
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55% The Good Shepherd
This fictitious CIA origin film is an overlong, tedious effort that leaves viewers with more questions than answers.
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50% For Your Consideration
As the object of satire gets bigger the jokes become thinner, and Christopher Guest isn�t as droll or insightful here than when he was lampooning smaller subjects.
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47% We Are Marshall
Matthew McConaughey almost runs We Are Marshall to the end zone, but can't stop it from taking the easy, feel-good route in memorializing this historic event in American sports.
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47% The Holiday
The Holiday, while sweet and somewhat touching, lacks any surprises and eventually overstays its welcome.
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44% Bobby
Despite best intentions from director Emilio Estevez and his ensemble cast, they succumb to a script filled with pointless subplots and awkward moments working too hard to parallel contemporary times.
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40% The Nativity Story
The Nativity Story is a dull retelling of a well-worn tale with the look and feel of a high-school production.
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38% The Guardian
The Coast Guard gets its chance for a heroic movie tribute, but The Guardian does it no justice, borrowing cliche after cliche from other (and better) military branch movies.
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29% Unaccompanied Minors
Unaccompanied Minors, while featuring credible performances by its mostly young cast, is simply a rehash of other, funnier movies.
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17% Turistas
Beautiful scenery and cinematography can't save Turistas from its wooden acting and stale and predictable plot.
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16% Black Christmas
A gratuitous remake of the 1974 slasher, Black Christmas pumps out the gore and blood with zero creativity, humor, or visual flair.
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14% Eragon
Written by a teenager (and it shows), Eragon presents nothing new to the "hero�s journey" story archetype. In movie terms, this movie looks and sounds like Lord of the Rings and plays out like a bad Star Wars rip-off. The movie spins the tale of a peasant boy who is suddenly entrusted with a dragon and must, with the help of a mentor, train, grow strong, and defeat an evil emperor. The way the critics picture it, the makers of Eragon should soon be expecting an annoyed phone call from George Lucas.
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13% The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
Playing Jack Frost as an evil cross between Liza Minnelli and Liberace, Martin Short is a welcome presence, but this tired series continues drawing from its bag of bland gags and dumb slapstick.
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7% Deck the Halls
A Christmas comedy with Matthew Broderick and Danny De Vito has to have some laughs, right? Unfortunately that's not the case. As far as movies about bickering neighbors during the Christmas holiday go, the predictable Deck the Halls is pretty mediocre, with hardy anything to cheer about. It doesn't help that both Broderick's and De Vito's characters are unsympathetic and the 'humor' is on the crude side for a PG movie. You won't see this one on any classic holiday movies list.
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6% Code Name: The Cleaner
The affable Cedric is wasted in Code Name: The Cleaner, a limp action/comedy flick which juggles between lame, worn-out jokes and cheesy kung-fu sequences.
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6% Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj
A low-brow comedy, minus the comedy.
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5% Happily N'Ever After
Happily N'Ever After has none of the moxy, edge, or postmodern wit of the other fairy-tales-gone-haywire CG movie it so blatantly rips off.
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Fast Track
IN THEATERS DECEMBER 29, 2006 When Tom's (Zach Braff) wife, Sofia (Amanda Peet), gets pregnant he has to reel in his slacker lifestyle and work for his father-in-law in this MEET THE PARENTS-style comedy.
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100% The Case of the Grinning Cat
IN THEATERS DECEMBER 20, 2006 (LIMITED) Shortly after September 11, 2001, when much of the world was showing its public support for New York City and America, a cartoonish smiling cat began appearing in Paris, stenciled on walls, buildings, trains, and the street.
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99% Pan's Labyrinth
Pan's Labyrinth is Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups, with the horrors of both reality and fantasy blended together into an extraordinary, spellbinding fable. Told through the eyes of a little girl whose imaginary world is inhabited by nightmarish creatures, Pan's Labyrinth is a visually imaginative and allegorical take on the fears she faced in Spain during WWII.
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93% Letters From Iwo Jima
An achingly humanistic war film, Letters from Iwo Jima is an emotional and artistic triumph.
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91% Volver
Volver catches director Pedro Almodovar and star Penelope Cruz at the peak of their respective powers, in service of a layered, thought-provoking film. This magical tragicomic melodrama may be Almodovar's most restrained work to date, but it still features his trademarks: a strong attention to color and detail, a celebration of the trials and tribulations of women, and, of course, the inestimable Carmen Maura. The lovely Penelope Cruz hasn't shone more brightly as she does here.
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91% Unconscious
From acclaimed Spanish director Joaqu�n Oristrell, Unconscious is a delightful period comedy that questions sexual taboos in Barcelona in the early 20th century, yet resonates with a modern sensibility.
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91% Sweet Land
Finding the right balance between subtle and sentimental, Sweet Land moves beyond other similarly-themed dramas with evocative cinematography that plays an equal role to the talented cast.
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90% Deep Sea 3-D
Viewers will welcome being whisked away to this magical world of exotic sea life.
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88% Venus
Audiences may attend to witness Peter O'Toole's Oscar-worthy performance, but they'll also be treated to a humane, tender exploration of maturing with both dignity and irreverence.
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86% Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
This inspirational 3D IMAX film approximates for audiences what it is like to set steps on the moon.
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86% Notes on a Scandal
In this sharp psychological thriller, Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett give fierce, memorable performances as two schoolteachers locked in a battle of wits.
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83% Little Children
Little Children takes a penetrating look at suburbia and its flawed individuals with an unflinching yet humane eye.
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82% Screamers
Documentary feature examining why genocides keep occurring -- from the Armenian genocide in 1915, to the Holocaust, Bosnia, Rwanda and now Darfur -- through the eyes and music of the Grammy award-winning rock band "System of a Down," based in Los Angeles, whose members are all grandchildren of genocide survivors.
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80% Dhoom 2
IN THEATERS NOVEMBER 24, 2006 (LIMITED) A novice police officer has a tough crime to crack when the Royal Crown is stolen amid a hectic train journey in this Indian action/comedy film.
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79% Family Law
What Family Law lacks in overt drama and conflict, it more than makes us with warm performances and smart, sharp dialogue.
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78% Santa vs. the Snowman
From the Academy Award nominated team that brought you Jimmy Neutron, comes the first-ever 3D holiday IMAX film, Santa Vs. The Snowman.
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78% Days of Glory
IN THEATERS DECEMBER 6, 2006 There has never been a WWII film quite like Rachid Bouchareb�s DAYS OF GLORY, which shows the "good war" through the eyes of four North African soldiers fighting for the French army during the German occupation.
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77% The Painted Veil
Visually, The Painted Veil has all the trappings of a stuffy period drama, but Norton's and Watts's deft portrayals of imperfect, complicated characters give the film a modern-day spark.
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75% Ever Since the World Ended
�Ever Since The World Ended� is a character-driven �social science fiction� film about life after the end of the world.
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73% The Secret Life of Words
The Secret Life of Words is a slow, mannered drama, but with a revelatory and powerful ending that rewards the patient viewer.
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71% Four Eyed Monsters
"They have four eyes, two mouths, eight limbs that wrap around themselves. It's disgusting!" Arin says, as we see images of couples throughout New York City.
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68% The Dead Girl
This dark thriller boasts a fresh approach, but it can still get bogged down by its heavy subject matter.
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67% Off the Black
While the story can be dull, Nick Nolte shines.
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67% Automatons
Somewhere in the distant future, The Girl (Christine Spencer) is alone. She is the last of her people, the others having died in a generations-long war that she continues to fight with the assistance of a group of antiquated robot helpers and soldiers.
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67% The Empire in Africa
IN THEATERS DECEMBER 8, 2006 (LIMITED) The story of the civil war in Sierra Leone is discussed at length in this thought-provoking documentary about the region.
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66% Roving Mars
Roving Mars is a decent thrill ride even when it starts feeling like a commercial plug for NASA's failing space program.
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64% 10 Items or Less
A small film that relies too heavily on the charm of its big actors.
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64% Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
IN THEATERS DECEMBER 15, 2006 (LIMITED) Daniel Paul Schreber's inspirational psychoanalytical text on his own descent into insanity is dramatized in this film from director Julian P. Hobbs (COLLECTORS).
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62% Inland Empire
Typical David Lynch fare: fans of the director will find Inland Empire seductive and deep. All others will consider the heady surrealism impenetrable and pointless.
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62% Curse of the Golden Flower
Melodrama, swordplay, and CG armies -- fans of martial arts epic will get what they bargain for, though the baroque art direction can be both mesmerizing and exhaustively excessive.
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61% The History Boys
While not quite having the impact of its original stage version, The History Boys nevertheless is a witty and involving school drama.
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60% Reminiscing in Tempo
IN THEATERS DECEMBER 15, 2006 Gary Keys's exuberant documentary captures the spectacular birthday parties thrown by Ruth Ellington for her brother, Duke, every year--even after he passed away in 1977.
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54% Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Perfume is what you'd expect from a Tom Twyker-directed movie glamorizing a serial killer: a kinetic visual feast, with a dark antihero that's impossible to feel sympathy for.
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50% Matthew Barney: No Restraint
IN THEATERS DECEMBER 20, 2006 (LIMITED) From 1995 to 2002, avant-garde artist Matthew Barney wrote, directed, and starred in the Cremaster Cycle, five offbeat films featuring unusual situations and bizarre characters.
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50% Ever Again
IN THEATERS DECEMBER 8, 2006 (LIMITED) Actor Kevin Costner narrates this documentary about the alarming rise of anti-Semitism across Europe.
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35% 3 Needles
In getting its message about the AIDS epidemic across, the film unfortunately sacrifices story and character.
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33% Factory Girl
"Factory Girl" imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s "it girl" Edie Sedgwick, the blazing superstar who came to define both the glamour and the tragedy of our celebrity-obsessed culture.
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32% The Good German
Though Steven Soderbergh succeeds in emulating the glossy look of 1940s noirs, The Good German ultimately ends up as a self-conscious exercise in style that forgets to develop compelling characters.
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23% Home of the Brave
The ensemble cast works hard, but hammy direction and a script lacking in nuance ruins this movie�s noble intentions.
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12% The Architect
A glum drama that's so self-affected it fails to affect.
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10% Facing the Giants
The tropes of both football and evangelical movies are gracelessly on parade in this banal, insipid drama.
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6% Thr3e
Thr3e is a shoddily made, thrill-free thriller that isn't half as good as the several movies it borrows from (Adaptation, Saw, Se7en).
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Two Weeks
Two-time Academy Award winner Sally Field, Ben Chaplin, Tom Cavanagh, Julianne Nicholson, and Clea Duvall star in a film audiences have called "touching," "truthful" and "surprisingly funny."
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Christmas at Maxwell's
This Christmas will change the Austin family forever. With a successful career in the wine business, two amazing children and having married his high-school sweetheart Suzie Maxwell, Andrew Austin has everything.
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Mr. Leather
"Mr. Leather" is an unforgettable journey into the lives of today's leathermen and the exciting, sexy and hilarious world of Leather Contests.
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Brooklyn Rules
Set in Brooklyn circa 1985 against the backdrop of John Gotti's rise to Mafia power, "Brooklyn Rules" is a powerful story revolving around three lifelong friends whose different ambitions threaten to shake their enduring bond.
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The Flying Scotsman
IN THEATERS DECEMBER 29, 2006 Graeme Obree was an unemployed Scottish cycling enthusiast who built his own bike and broke the world one-hour record in 1993.
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My Dad Is 100 Years Old
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Guadalupe
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Resilience
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Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World
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Kiki Smith: Squatting the Palace
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Words of My Perfect Teacher
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED Filmmaker Lesley Ann Patten constructs a film about spiritual growth with WORDS OF MY PERFECT TEACHER.
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