Ultimatum is the best of the Bourne movies, cold and heartless like its subject but so intense and exciting that we often don´t have time to care
Steve Buscemi’s Interview is a compelling remake of Theo Van Gogh’s 2003 film by the same name
Evan Almighty doubled the budget of its predecessor while replacing stars Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston with Steve Carell and Lauren Graham
Planet Terror has been ripped from its loins and is now presented to international audiences devoid of its original drive-in goodness
Hairspray is so loving and sincere that it´s impossible not to go along with all the silliness
Transformers is Michael Bay´s masterpiece: an unrestrained exercise in excess and machismo style
Surf’s Up breaks no new ground but remains likable and visually pleasing throughout
Pan’s Labyrinth is a rich, beautiful, violent fairy tale for adults
An odd mix of psychological thriller and camp satire, Mr. Brooks offers some fleeting fun
In Next, Cage has fun in the role of Frank Cadillac, a Vegas magician who can see two minutes into the future
A towering, deservedly-praised Peter O´Toole performance is the sole reason to see Roger Michell´s Venus
Fracture reels us in with a can’t-miss premise only to slowly lose us over the course of the rest of the film
François Ozon´s Angel is an uneasy mixture of camp satire and lurid melodrama
The Simpsons Movie faithfully recreates a typical episode with a flair not seen since the series´ heyday
The Good Night is not without flaws but excels as a rare intelligent and realistic comedy-drama
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix contains fits and spurts of the magic of the previous films but generally underwhelms.
Hostel sequel bores us to tears before giving us explicit scenes of young women strung up, tied down, and brutally tortured
The Pang Bros. first English-language film, The Messengers starts off promisingly but soon disintegrates
Factory Girl is a well-intentioned but tepid and underdeveloped look at Edie Sedgwick, whose life came to an untimely end at age 28.
David Lynch at his most unrestrained produces Inland Empire, a brilliant, mysterious, perversely fascinating film.
A listless sequel to the uninspired original, this Fantastic Four flick piles money on top of by-the-numbers script
A look at children´s author Beatrix Potter, Miss Potter is a smooth and affectionate tale though never a definitive portrait of its subject
They´re not even trying anymore, and yet Soderbergh’s Ocean´s Thirteen is the best film in the Danny Ocean series
Surprisingly, Tarantino´s Death Proof is a better standalone film than what was presented in Grindhouse