Silly, superficial and even infantile, this misguided drama about a single woman (Madonna) who has a baby after a one-night stand with her gay best friend (Rupert Everett) thinks it’s making a brave social statement about the makeup of the new American family. But it’s too poorly crafted – check out the inept lighting –

Most romantic comedies bury the loneliness and disappointment that is inevitably a part of any romance in one tidy sequence, usually involving the hero or heroine walking despondently in the rain. Shopgirl – adapted from Steve Martin’s novella about a love triangle involving a drifting Los Angeles sales clerk (Claire Danes, sad and sweet), a

Hilary Duff once again showcases her considerable screen charm – her specialty is scrunching her eyebrows so that she looks cute even while in distress – but this modern take on the fairy tale consist mostly of high-school movie cliches. It’s hardly the prince of a vehicle she deserves.

Robin Williams is in serious, simpering mode for this science-fiction drama about a “cutter” who edits footage that a person with a video-recording implant records from the day of his or her birth. The assembled movie, or “rememory,” is then shown at the person’s funeral. Intriguing ethical, technical and even theological questions arise, but writer-director

Occasionally interesting, but mostly a paint-by-numbers biography of American artist Jackson Pollock. Star Ed Harris, who also directed and produced, has moments of emotional power, but he never sews them together into a complete and revealing portrait of the man.

The engaging stars of this cross-cultural love story must bushwack through a thick tangle of romantic-comedy cliches before arriving at anything remotely genuine and true, but they do manage to get there. For Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker, as an uptight black career woman and her laid-back white landscaper, respectively, it’s victory by perseverance more

Watching It Runs in the Family, starring Kirk, Michael and Cameron Douglas, feels a little bit like getting stuck at someone else’s family reunion. The forced arguments and conveniently tragic plot developments in the contrived script are bad enough, but when the Douglases start hauling out pictures of their shared past, we just feel like

Don’t get caught up in the looney logic that governs this death row drama. Instead, appreciate it for its performances: occasionally Kevin Spacey’s as a professor convicted of murder, mostly Kate Winslet’s as a reporter who comes to interview him and above all that of Laura Linney as the murder victim. The Life of David

A hack’s Heathers, New Best Friend follows a college wallflower (Mia Kirshner) who is introduced by three party girls into a world of sex, drugs and bad dance music. Laughably amateurish, the movie boasts robotic performances, a barely there plot and sex scenes that give off more desperation than heat.

The deserving Laura Linney gets a chance to take center stage as a 30-something divorced woman succumbing to a life devoid of romantic love – until she meets a young graduate student (Topher Grace) at the university where she works. The film loses its focus as the complications arise, but whenever the camera is on