Brideshead Revisited (2008)

Drama Rated PG-13

“It’s like three movies – about a single book – in one.

Baghead (2008)

Comedy Rated R

“…you’re not quite sure what to make of Baghead, though in a good way.

American Teen (2008)

Documentary Rated PG-13

"Performing – for American Idol or YouTube – has become such an integral part of the American experience that people no longer seem capable of appearing authentic while on camera."

Mamma Mia! (2008)

Musical Rated PG-13

You’d have to like ABBA songs an awful lot to enjoy hearing them forced onto this sitcom story, drawn from the stage musical, about a young dimwit (Amanda Seyfried) who invites three of her mother’s former lovers to her wedding, hoping to discover which one of them is her father. Essentially, everyone sits around waiting

Wanted (2008)

Action/Adventure Rated R

quot;I’m going to commit a film-critic sin and suggest Wanted is a better movie from director Timur Bekmambetov than the acclaimed films he made in his native Russia.

WALL-E (2008)

Family Rated G

“With its lack of dialogue, inventive visual comedy and satirical view of working life, the first half of the movie could be an animated addendum to Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times”.

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Action/Adventure Rated NR

A journey into the heart of misguided Hollywood excess. Twentieth Century Fox pulled out all the stops – and the giant mushrooms – for this silly spectacle, adapted from the novel by Jules Verne. The movie is awful, and only occasionally in an entertaining way. Such “highlights” would include a shirtless Pat Boone crooning his

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

Musical Rated NR

“…a story of naïve young love seen through the affectionate eyes of experience.”

Hancock (2008)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

"If you thought you were in for something light-hearted, prepare yourself for more superhero angst than Batman Begins and Hulk combined."

Wackness, The (2008)

Drama Rated R

Everyone in The Wackness tries so very, very hard to be risqué that there isn’t a moment in which the movie isn’t posturing. Centered on a recent high-school graduate selling marijuana in 1994 New York City, The Wackness stars Josh Peck, desperately trying to shed his kiddie image from Nickelodeon’s “Drake & Josh.” As Luke