Comedy, Drama, Romance
Love Happens

What do grief and death have to do with romantic comedy? Quite a lot in this case.

Comedy
The Informant!

Matt Damon is a delusional-but-brilliant white collar criminal turned FBI mole!

Animation, Comedy, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Pretty near every American child under the age of 8 has either read or has heard Judi Barrett’s book about …

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
Sorority Row

Theta Pi sorority sisters get a lot more than they bargain for—like, um, death—when a nasty prank on one of …

Comedy, Romance
All About Steve

Sandra Bullock is a socially inept cruciverbalist-turned-stalker in this zany (and crass) road trip flick.

Comedy
Extract

Mike Judge’s 1999 film ‘Office Space’ became a sleeper hit for its off-kilter jabs at white collar tedium. ‘Extract’ moves …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Gamer

Tomorrow’s video games have gamers controlling real people. So when you lose in this first-person shooter, you lose a lot …

Horror
The Final Destination

The fourth “final” film in this popular horror franchise proves that its producers don’t really know the meaning of that …

Action/Adventure, Drama, War
Inglourious Basterds

Quentin Tarantino’s latest effort is a World War II fable pitting a band of ferocious Jews against the Third Reich’s …

Comedy, Drama, Musical
Bandslam

How big is Bandslam? According to Sa5m (she says the 5 is silent), “Texas high school football big.” Why wouldn’t …

Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Time Traveler’s Wife

A poignant but occasionally sensual story about a woman’s love for a man who has no control over when he’s …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
District 9

South African director Neill Blomkamp ushers moviegoers into a brutal, ugly world that, for all the aliens running around, feels …

Animation, Comedy, Drama, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Ponyo

Well-known for his sometimes dark, always spiritually minded movies, Japanese anime auteur Hayao Miyazaki seems to be consciously downshifting here …

Comedy, Drama
Julie & Julia

Julia Child’s most famous cookbook was published in 1961. In 2002 Julie Powell cooks her way through it.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
A Perfect Getaway

They say you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover. But what about predictably unpredictable slasher flicks?