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A Guide to Recognizing Your Shrinksnew
Augusten Burroughs' memoir of a messed-up childhood hits the big screen.
Tags: Running With Scissors, Ryan Murphy
Diamond in the Roughnew
Steve Martin's Pink Panther piddles on its predecessor.
Tags: Shawn Levy, The Pink Panther
Unlocking the Underworldnew
Marebito's hero takes a vampire home -- which isn't the best idea.
Tags: Takashi Shimizu, Marebito
Shaftednew
This riveting film brings the stories of four workers struggling to make ends meet to the big screen.
Tags: Roger Weisberg, Waging a Living
Sins of the Fathernew
The man looking for his missing 6-year-old daughter in this deeply moving film is the kind of pariah most urban dwellers will do anything to avoid.
Drift Woodnew
The latest film aspiring to skewer the cruelties of high-school life commits a fatal error: It forgets to side with the students.
Fortunate Sonnew
This film directed by the son of Michael Eisner is a stunning piece of work -- stunningly inept, stunningly incoherent, stunningly awful in every way imaginable.
Listening to Klingonnew
The documentary Earthlings transports us into a secret society ruled by codes and wonders all its own, the province of Trekkies who joined the Klingon Language Institute.
Hail Snail Mailnew
In this film about a father and son delivering a mail route in the mountains of South Hunan lurks a stone-faced reverence for civil service that may seem downright bizarre to most Americans.
Next Best Thing to Being Therenew
The Radio City concert that was performed a century after the birth of the blues and gorgeously filmed by Antoine Fuqua gives us a profound sense of how the blues has blossomed over the years -- and the far corners it has reached.
For Sheer Carnage, Saw Shreds the Competitionnew
In case it isn't already abundantly clear, this is not a casual date movie. Many will decry it as excessive or sadistic; cultural conservatives will most certainly deem it abhorrent. This is a movie for those who think Natural Born Killers wasn't sufficiently bloodthirsty.
Soft-Shoe Soft Sellnew
What's most impressive about Shall We Dance? is how Peter Chelsom wipes the glitter and glamour off his stars and makes them seem like ordinary people.
Puppet Mastersnew
The creators of this raunchy action farce made with prancing marionettes open fire on American militarism, French indifference, Peter Jennings, Hollywood blockbusters, Nebraska football and left-leaning movie stars who think they have interesting things to say about politics.
Gallo's Polenew
Despite its formalistic failings and truly absurd Porn Moment, there's a morbidity here that feels quite genuine, and after the movie is over, it amounts to rough-hewn poetry.
