Slumdog Millionaire
Review in a Hurry: This spacious meld of old, old-school Hollywood and traditional Indian saga slathered with just a pinch of Bollywood ought to have enough spice and romance for the suburbs.
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Review in a Hurry: Bedazzled in blood and soap opera complications, this gothic rock opera features as many sets of on-screen intestines as it does plot points. There are many unpleasant futures to contemplate, but do any of them really need to involve Paris Hilton?
City of Ember
Review in a Hurry: That ol' liberal Hollywood bias is translated into a kiddie flick that's Brazil for tots. Two hundred years after humanity is forced underground, one girl's tenacious spirit unlocks the secret to her people's future.
Religulous
Review in a Hurry: Beginning and ending in Megiddo, Israel, "the spot where the Christians believe the world will end in the book of Revelation," Bill Maher manages a mind-blowing documentary about religion less blasphemous (and vicious) than you'd expect from the fiery host of HBO's Real Time.
Ghost Town
Review in a Hurry: Clinically dead for seven minutes, a self-absorbed Manhattan dentist is revived, only to find himself hounded by ghosts. And by Jove, do they annoy him. Derailed by a romantic subplot, Ghost Town fails to make use of the dead as proper comedic fodder.
Sukiyaki Western Django
Review in a Hurry: The Spaghetti Western, Japanese-style, Sukiyaki is a remarkably inventive yet referential Eastern Western, full of action, cinematic references, pop-cowboy lingo, bloody haute costuming, two warring clans and one carnage-inducing Gatling gun.
Tropic Thunder
Review in a Hurry: A group of actors lost on location while filming the costliest war epic of all time find themselves in a world of hilarious pain while deftly satirizing Hollywood. War, what is it good for? More laughs than serial flatulence!
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Review in a Hurry: Four college friends bound by a pair of magical pants have adventures and kiss boys, in this syrupy, neutered chick flick suitable for 13-year-olds.
American Teen
Review in a Hurry: Documentarian Nanette Burstein trails five high school archetypes from small-town Indiana as they navigate the murky waters of senior year, with all the attendant pitfalls, foibles and tempests-in-teacups one might remember from their own confusing school daze.








