Everyone in The Wackness tries so very, very hard to be risqué that there isn’t a moment in which the movie isn’t posturing. Centered on a recent high-school graduate selling marijuana in 1994 New York City, The Wackness stars Josh Peck, desperately trying to shed his kiddie image from Nickelodeon’s “Drake & Josh.” As Luke

An extraordinary adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel about a young Iranian woman coming of age in the 1970s and ’80s. Although Satrapi experienced the Iranian Revolution, the resulting Islamic fundamentalist government and a stint in Vienna to escape all the turmoil, Persepolis eschews outright politicizing and stands as a personal story first and foremost.

"The picture has a real feel for its tortured characters. It starts out navel-gazing and ends up empathetic."

“…deserves three-and-a-half stars for its dazzling opening sequence alone.

“Director Vadim Perelman fetishizes the threat of violence with his caressing camera.

"There is something especially insulting about a very adult movie told in very childish terms."

“It’s quite possible that I still would have been bored out of my mind during Deal even if I cared a lick about poker.