When Final Destination was released in 2000, it had cleverness on its side. After years of slasher films that found increasingly tortured or...

In Big Fan , Patton Oswalt inhabits Paul Aufiero, a painfully realistic character, a needy, dead-end man who latches onto his small nugget o...

District 9 takes off like a bullet, blasting its opening scenes at the audience with a terrifying speed, quickly overwhelming (but not fr...

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is pure bliss, the kind of cinematic magic that sends me out of the theater lightheaded and smi...

Nothing inspires maudlin cliché as feverishly as the romantic comedy, but director Marc Webb, in his debut film, working from a screenplay b...

With Funny People , his third film as director, Judd Apatow, the most prolific peddler of the modern R-rated comedy, has brought more ambiti...

The latest example of mind-bogglingly retrograde stereotypes mixed in with mind-numbingly lame comedy is The Ugly Truth , a raunchy romantic...