“Ben Stiller has made a lot of Hollywood junk over the past few years, and Tropic Thunder feels like an attempt to cleanse these projects from his system.

Step Brothers isn’t as inspired as Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly’s previous collaboration with director Adam McKay, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, yet it has its own deranged sense of glee. As grown men whose lives of sponging come to an end when their respective single parents meet and marry, Ferrell and

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

"It’s about time this guy realized he doesn’t need those Norbit prosthetics."

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