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Gulliver’s Travels (1939)

Action/Adventure Rated NR

Paramount’s response to Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, this adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s 1726 satirical novel isn’t quite in the same artistic class, but it’s still a fascinating feature-animation pioneer. Directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by his brother Max – of Betty Boop fame – Gulliver’s Travels has pointed Disney elements

Yes Man (2008)

Comedy Rated PG-13

“…another chance for Jim Carrey to unleash his inner anarchist – and I was surprised to realize how much I’ve missed the guy.

Gran Torino (2008)

Drama Rated R

“Awkward as a social drama – as if Eastwood had only lately seen Boyz N the Hood – yet as another one of his meditations on aging, the movie is on to something.

Che (2008)

Drama Rated R

"If there was any hint of a devil to Che Guevara, you won’t find him in Soderbergh’s intricately documented details."

Wrestler, The (2008)

Drama Rated R

The Wrestler is about one thing – Mickey Rourke – and that makes the movie both fascinating and limited. This is at once a vanity and an anti-vanity piece for the once-heralded, long-disgraced actor, who plays Randy “The Ram” Robinson – a once-heralded, now-disgraced professional wrestling star of the 1980s. His body a wreck, his

Watchmen (2009)

Action/Adventure Rated R

“…works as a bracing reminder that superheroes don’t exist and that their movies can’t save us.

Doubt (2008)

Drama Rated PG-13

Meryl Streep acts up a storm in Doubt, and the movie acts up right along with her. The picture, adapted by writer-director John Patrick Shanley from his play, centers on a 1960s Bronx parish seething with distrust. Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Streep), the iron-fisted principal of the parish’s school, finds herself at odds with Father Flynn

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Drama Rated R

Danny Boyle gives us 21st-century Dickens by way of India. Giddier than A Life Less Ordinary, grimier than Trainspotting, more horrifying – in a real-world way – than 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire takes your breath away before you get a chance to suck it in. Set in contemporary Mumbai, the picture opens on 18-year-old

Twilight (2008)

Drama Rated PG-13

“Forget the hand-holding tweens in the audience – Twilight itself could use a chaperone.

Four Christmases (2008)

Comedy Rated PG-13

"Do these hypocritical holiday comedies have an alarm clock inside them that goes off when they’re suddenly supposed to turn all soft and gooey?"

Recent Reviews

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

Drama Rated PG

“A crucial time-capsule movie…”

Death Becomes Her (1992)

Comedy Rated PG-13

“… the central idea is tantalizing and the cast is having so much fun…”

The Drama (2026)

Drama Rated R

“… inflicts a contrived construct on Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, one from which they never escape.”


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