Few of us live out our moral quandaries as loudly as mild-mannered insurance salesman Tim Lippe does in Cedar Rapids. In this underappreciated, overachieving comic gem, the sheltered and naive Tim (Ed Helms) embarks on his first business convention, traveling all the way from Brown Valley, Wis., to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Though by no means

“There is a certain sense of self-loathing that goes into these sorts of character comedies, as if the actors are reveling in their own humiliation.

“Wait until you see the look of chagrin on Carell’s face when he holds a shoe phone to his ear.

“…a gigantic egg, but no one looks more pleased with it than Myers.

“It’s as if Sandler took a trip to Israel and came back with 6,000 jokes about hummus (the 6,000 penis jokes he didn’t have to go anywhere to find).

Fueled by a sense of economic desperation that was all too familiar in 2008, The Promotion was my choice as best picture for that year. The wry comedy stars John C. Reilly and Seann William Scott as assistant managers at a grocery store who are vying for a new manager position, but it doesn’t really

"…laces its copious gross-out gags, pothead humor and female nudity with the smartest social satire this side of ‘The Daily Show.’"

“The picture is about a surrogate mother, and in a sense Fey is being asked to be the movie’s surrogate.

“Pamela Anderson appears for 15 seconds as the Invisible Woman … and if Anderson is invisible she’s pretty much completely useless.

“Pegg’s Dennis is lazy, insensitive and unhygienic. Yet his most defining quality is blandness. I could barely rouse myself to dislike him.