The graduating class of Lake Howell High meets for its ten-year reunion. The student body appears to have been created in a petri dish: Hitler couldn't have engineered a more physically unblemished graduating class. In addition to the Tatums (Channing and Jenna Dewan), there's Ari Graynor, Justin Long, Max Minghella, …
In the decades since Linda Blair first hocked up a pea-soup facial, Hollywood xerographers have found in demonic possession a perennial cash absorber. Director James Wan (Saw, Insidious) stylishly resists the easy temptation of schlock-shocks and CGI as a means of supplanting storytelling. For its its first hour, this fact-based …
While house-sitting at the posh home of one of her clients, a yoga instructor’s (Rosemarie DeWitt) husband (co-writer Jake Johnson) unearths a gun and what appears to be a human bone buried on the property. This plot gizmo is dispensed with almost as fast as it arrives. This leaves ample …
A friendship between a pair of ‘spoken for’ co-workers at a Chicago brewery gradually heats up in what has to be the sweetest, most romantic, and non-judgmental 90 minutes you’ll ever spend in the company of functioning alcoholics. With top comedic performances in Butter and now Drinking Buddies, Olivia Wilde …
A bubbly blonde who aspires to be Diane Sawyer settles temporarily for being a production assistant on the Kippie Kann Do sleaze-TV show, where, in an excruciating climax, she is shoved in front of the cameras to confront her current boyfriend and his three ex-girlfriends on live television. If you …
The live-action directing debut of Mike Judge (creator of Beavis and Butt-head), a feature-length expansion of his series of "Milton" animated shorts. The character of Milton, a flabby mumbling nobody in a five-foot cubicle at a software firm called Initech (Initiative plus Technology equals...), is but a minor figure here, …
Mauling satire of a high-school vixen (a ready and willing Evan Rachel Wood) and her victims, as she finagles her way from the lead role in the Drama Club Diary of Anne Frank to a featured part in the network sitcom, Dysfunction. It shoots for the vein of Heathers, Election, …
Guy talk, among a group of Hollywood wannabes (their chief points of reference in life appear to be Reservoir Dogs and Goodfellas, openly aped by director and cameraman Doug Liman in slow-motion and Steadicam sequences, respectively) whose highest form of praise and self-praise is "money," as in "You're money!" and …
With two toddlers and a newborn to ride herd on, stressed-to-the-max mom Marlo (Charlize Theron) accepts her brother’s gift of a night nanny. Diablo Cody’s dialogue still sounds forced, but at least here, the characters don’t speak with one voice the way they did in Juno, the screenwriter’s first pairing …