Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

This is a throwback to a time when action movies were measured by the number of cars they crashed, which means you have to take the 1980s good – muscular, CGI-light stunt work – with the 1980s bad (namely a level of mindlessness that makes Ocean’s Thirteen look like an art film). By now, Bruce

Poltergeist (1982)

Horror Rated PG

Poltergeist has a shlocky reputation thanks mainly to the sub-par special effects and its junky sequels, but the 1982 original stands up well. In fact, its attitude toward television – as an evil presence capable of destroying the nuclear American family – seems downright prescient. For those who haven’t seen the film and aren’t still

Evening (2007)

Drama Rated PG-13

“Streep and Redgrave only have one scene together … yet it captures every note of longing and regret that the rest of the movie should have hit.

Sicko (2007)

Documentary Rated PG-13

“It’s too bad you can’t trust Michael Moore.

Dan in Real Life (2007)

Comedy Rated PG-13

“It’s as if the producers of Spanglish had asked Adam Sandler to do his Opera Man routine here and there.

Nancy Drew (2007)

Family Rated PG

“Emma Roberts’ Nancy has the sort of innocent smile Paris Hilton likely lacked at birth.

Fantastic Four:
Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

Action/Adventure Rated PG

“This has to be the most humdrum collection of comic book characters to have ever dripped from a pen. They make you long for the thrilling adventures of someone called, say, The Accountant.

Bubble (2005)

Drama Rated R

One of those low-budget experiments Soderbergh likes to squeeze in between Ocean’s Eleven projects, this means to take a peek at a corner of America Hollywood usually stays away from: the poor, the unattractive, the Midwestern. Set in Ohio and featuring a nonprofessional cast from the area, Bubble centers around the odd friendship between an

Day Watch (2007)

Action/Adventure Rated R

"…nearly gave me a seizure (and movie-wise, I don’t seizure lightly)."

Buffalo Soldiers (2001)

Drama Rated R

The story of a drug-dealing military clerk (Joaquin Phoenix) at a poorly disciplined U.S. base in 1989 West Germany, Buffalo Soldiers was long delayed out of fear it would be deemed too unpatriotic during wartime. If only it were unpatriotic – that would have been infinitely more interesting than the wishy-washy, morally skittish movie we