Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox Just Simply Fantastic
Review in a Hurry: Awkward-humor auteur Wes Anderson, Oscar-winner George Clooney, and Willy Wonka creator Roald Dahl come together for a stop-motion animated feature that doesn't seem like it should make any sense at all—but it totally does. Fantastic, indeed.
Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats Silly and Outdated, Despite Clooney Cool
Review in a Hurry: Ditched by his wife, reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) makes a semi-suicidal beeline for Iraq. There he encounters apparent psychic soldier Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who spins a dubious yarn about a special psy-ops program and leads his new compadre into a hippies-versus-soldiers conflict that feels about 40 years too late.
Review: Saw VI the Year's Best Supergory Movie About Health Insurance
Review in a Hurry: Capitalism beware! Michael Moore was a pussycat compared to Saw's John "Jigsaw" Kramer (Tobin Bell), whose we-mean-it-this-time last posthumous wish was apparently that vengeance be wrought upon predatory lenders and health insurance executives. No, really. Enjoy.
Review: Astro Boy Missing Iconic Kid-Robot Charm
Review in a Hurry: One of the original icons of Japanese anime—the robot boy with the atomic heart—gets a Hollywood upgrade in this sporadically entertaining but somewhat muddled all-star CG animated feature.
Review: Where the Wild Things Are a Rowdy Rumpus (That'll Totally Make You Cry)
Review in a Hurry: Artfully oddball director Spike Jonze brings his aesthetic to the much-loved children's book about a rowdy kid who leaves home to become king of the monsters, only to find it's not easy being in charge. If you ever loved the book as a kid or parent (or both), you will cry. Yes you will. Don't fight it.
Review: Zombieland Total Flesh-Eating Undead Fun
Review in a Hurry: Zombieland looks on the bright side of an undead apocalypse: You can take what you want, smash anything you like, and if you meet a beautiful girl your age, she's probably single and desperate. Just avoid those nasty flesh eaters.
Review: Pandorum Just Another—Yawn!—Thriller About a Dark, Drippy Spaceship
Review in a Hurry: From the producers of the Resident Evil movies comes...a Resident Evil rip-off in space! An actual Resident Evil sequel in space would have been better—at least then we'd have Milla Jovovich to look at instead of Ben Foster.
Review: Surrogates Returns Bruce Willis to Smart-Guy Sci-Fi
Review in a Hurry: If you're thinking that Bruce Willis + guns + robots + based on comic book = big action movie, you may be disappointed. What we have here is more like T3 director Jonathan Mostow's most outlandish, rejected Terminator sequel concepts, superimposed onto a Fahrenheit 451-style cautionary sci-fi satire (same screenwriters as T3, too). And it's fun for what it is.
Review: Michael Moore + Recession + Fun = Capitalism: A Love Story!
Review in a Hurry: In a mere two hours, polarizing documentarian Michael Moore attempts to explain the entire U.S. economy in layman's terms and why it's putting the hurt on most of us right now. There's less obvious grandstanding than in a usual Moore movie, and you don't have to agree with his take to appreciate some of the information herein.
Review: Love Happens, and So Does Another Mediocre Jennifer Aniston Flick
Review in a Hurry: Love might just "happen" on the big screen, but movies don't just happen—they require a good story and well-written characters, and this mismarketed would-be rom-com about a self-help guru (Aaron Eckhart) who falls for a Seattle florist (Jennifer Aniston) only gets the equation about half right.
Review: Tyler Perry's Bad Just Good Enough
Review in a Hurry: The first half of Tyler Perry's latest Madea movie is enough to give a cynic hope in more ways than one, as the evangelical auteur integrates the humor and morality lectures more deftly and effectively than usual. Sadly, the barrage of "inspirational" musical numbers in the second half stops the narrative dead in its tracks.
Review: Halloween II, When Rob Zombie Attacks
Review in a Hurry: A bizarre mashup of grindhouse and art house, Rob Zombie's latest redneck rampage is unlikely to fully satisfy hardcore devotees of either genre. Yet there's a lot going on here that's worth a look, even if the writer-director's reach occasionally exceeds his grasp.








