Screenwriter and first-time director Jeff Nathanson gets his chance to call the shots with this Hollywood satire about a wide-eyed, aspiring director (Matthew Broderick) who thinks he’s been given his first chance to helm a movie but actually is serving as a front for an FBI operation targeting industry-related organized crime. Nathanson is so thrilled

Writer-director Kevin Smith is hell-bent on proving that God has a sense of humor with this self-described “comedic fantasy,” in which an abortion-clinic worker (Linda Fiorentino) tries to save the world from a pair of murderous angels (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck). There’s enough sharp, satirical humor here – and honest intention – to make

Director Harold Ramis’ Bedazzled relies on the same obvious humor that made his Analyze This feel like one of Jay Leno’s inane Tonight Show monologues. Here Brendan Fraser’s computer nerd trades his soul to the devil (Elizabeth Hurley) for seven wishes, each of which leads to gags that could be followed by a drummer’s rim

Pierce Brosnan gloriously goes to seed as Julian Noble, a hard-drinking hit man who parades his ample gut around in skimpy swimsuits and uses his assassination assignments to sample the world’s brothels. Working in Mexico City, Julian buddies up with a nerdy businessman (Greg Kinnear) for some fun and games that turn serious. Actors who

This piece of fluff – about a tomboyish FBI agent (Sandra Bullock) who goes undercover at a beauty pageant – looks tempting, but be wary. Bullock performed lame pratfalls about five times in the original trailer, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. She – and we – deserve better.

Sometimes a movie is so committed to its own brand of silliness that you can’t help but be swept up along with it. This sequel to the woeful 2000 hit, in which Sandra Bullock played a tomboy FBI agent who glams up to go undercover during a beauty pageant, sails around on its own giddy

Diminishing returns continue for the Barbershop franchise with this third entry, in which Gina (Queen Latifah) heads from Chicago to Atlanta and opens her own salon. There is far more plot than necessary, but the shop itself features enough comic camaraderie among the stylists to forgive many of the movie’s weaknesses. When these ladies start

This comedy about two thickheaded wrestling fans (David Arquette and Scott Caan) would be harmless – albeit raunchy – fun except for the way its amped-up violence spills outside of the ring. Here, beating the crap out of somebody isn’t just part of a theatrical stage show; it’s a way of life.

Part shrinks and part private investigators, the “existential detectives” at the center of this farce (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) plumb life’s biggest questions for their angst-ridden clients. The latest sharp satire from writer-director David O. Russell (Three Kings), this often is as random and puzzling as its title, yet buried beneath the quirky characters,