Part farce, part romance, part gross-out comedy, Breakin’ All the Rules is all over the place. It’s as if writer-director Daniel Taplitz thought he could spin your head and break your heart at once. The movie centers around the author of a men’s handbook on how to dump women (Jamie Foxx) who experiences enough romantic

Star, co-producer, co-writer and director Chris Rock takes a simple premise – what would happen if a black man ran for president? – and injects it with his blistering brand of political humor. Many of the speeches play like excerpts from his standup act, but what the movie lacks in polish it makes up for

Indie stalwart Jim Jarmusch (Down By Law, Broken Flowers) unveils an experiment long in the making with this series of black-and-white vignettes, filmed over the last 18 years, of different actors smoking and drinking joe. It’s curious and often funny, even if the performers – including Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett and rappers RZA and GZA

The Family Stone, which follows an extended clan over the Christmas holiday, is all over the place in terms of tone, though I guess you could say the same of most actual family gatherings, where laughs and tears often mix. Yet the movie – for all its farce, melodrama and tragedy – never manages any

Vulgar but inventive, Osmosis Jones alternates between live-action scenes detailing the poor health habits of a zoo employee (Bill Murray) and animated segments depicting the resulting trauma inside his body. Drawn with vivid imagination and fueled by a rapid-fire wit, Osmosis Jones becomes the funkiest, funniest instructional health video you have ever seen. Featuring the

A messy, confused remake of the 1975 feminist horror comedy, in which the housewife-as-automaton metaphor is stretched almost unbearably thin. Nicole Kidman is the headstrong heroine this time around, while director Frank Oz and screenwriter Paul Rudnick stumble updating the material. Kidman plays a ruthless career woman who gets sent to Stepford as her comeuppance,