Robin Williams dials things down a notch or two for RV, and that proves to be just the right volume level for director Barry Sonnenfeld’s (Men in Black) tolerably manic family comedy. Williams’ Bob Munro, saddled with a distracted wife (Cheryl Hines, from HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm), a mouthy daughter and a wannabe gangster son,

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Writer-director-star Albert Brooks trumps himself while playing a smug American comedian named Albert Brooks, who is tapped by the U.S. government to go on a fact-finding mission to India and Pakistan. Once you get the movie’s central, oft-repeated joke – that isolated America is desperately out of touch with the cultures it is warring against

Mild expectations – the best way to approach a Woody Allen film – will aid enjoyment of this slight experiment that plays with the forms of tragedy and comedy. Two parallel narratives – one serious, the other comic – follow a troubled woman (Radha Mitchell both times) who crashes a dinner party. With Will Ferrell

A comic farce that should surprise anyone who knows Alec Guinness only as the sage Ben Kenobi of the early Star Wars films. Here he plays eight roles – all pitch-perfect exercises in dry humor. Indeed, Kind Hearts and Coronets is so dry you have to pay close attention to realize it’s actually a comedy.

Alec Guinness minces through The Ladykillers as if it were his own personal playground, as well it should be. As the toothy, grinning leader of a gang of bumbling crooks – he only looks like a half-wit because the rest of them have no wits at all – he’s a loony treat, a comic bright

Woody Allen’s mind-numbingly inconsequential comedy represents another of his narcissistic lows. The writer-director hands the starring role over to Jason Biggs, a neurotic comedy writer stuck in an emotionally abusive relationship with a flighty actress (Christina Ricci), and reduces him to doing a lame Woody Allen impression. If imitation is the most sincere form of