Even at under an hour, this children's fantasy is sluggishly paced by today's standards...but it does have its charms and a relevant social message at its core. 
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Superman and the Mole-Men (1951)
Even at under an hour, this children's fantasy is sluggishly paced by today's standards...but it does have its charms and a relevant social message at its core. -
Moartea domnului Lazarescu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu) (2006)
[The] uniquely Eastern European brand of absurdity recalls the work of Vaclav Havel, playwright and former President of Czechoslovakia. At least, it would be absurd if it weren't so credible. -
Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)
Paine amasses evidence--including dissenting voices--that's consistently illuminating. -
Reinas (Queens) (2006)
Pleasantly fluffy but depthless...each story develops a worst-case scenario that proceeds to a too-comforting, too-swift resolution. -
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
If it rarely becomes more than a conventional Hollywood movie with conventional conflicts, at least it remembers to amuse, and has a force of nature in Streep. -
Two Drifters (2006)
João Pedro Rodrigues' twisted melodrama Two Drifters—titled Odete in its native Portugal—overreaches in its attempt to sculpt two troubled characters into two sides of the same coi... -
The Lake House (2006)
The Lake House is made of glass, but the view straight through it is rather pleasant all the same. -
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)
You know, I don't remember the fart and pee jokes in The Wizard of Oz or the old Disney classics or the Muppet movies. Crotch-biting, of course, comes from a long tradition. Hmm. -
The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2006)
A bit like staring at a beauty queen's phonily tight smile for ninety minutes. -
a/k/a Tommy Chong (2006)
Josh Gilbert's smoothly produced documentary a/k/a Tommy Chong should leave even Nancy Reagan aghast at the unfair trials of comedian Tommy Chong. -
12 and Holding (2006)
Cipriano and...Cuesta (L.I.E.) show realism, tender regard, and the benefit of the doubt for their young characters, but little of the same to their childish parents. -
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
A nutty, fictional ode-elegy to a show that's still going strong, A Prairie Home Companion offers a unique hybrid of a folksy American showman and an improvisatory impresario. -
Cavite (2006)
a fresh bid for indie-thriller cred....[but] watching Gamazon and Dela Llana charge through their limitations is a bit like watching a sprinter run in clogs. -
Cars (2006)
Even if Cars isn't the studio's champion outing, Pixar continues to run on all cylinders. -
The Omen (2006)
If you've never seen The Omen, the technically well-made remake is an effective chiller a cut above today's standard, but if you have, there's no reason to watch this rote replay. -
The Heart of the Game (2006)
[An] inspirational tale, which values team spirit even as it celebrates the will of two talented individuals. -
Swimming Pool (2003)
French filmmaker François Ozon takes pages from Hitchcock, Lynch, and fellow countryman Chabrol in Swimming Pool, one of the few buzzed-about films of this year's Cannes film festival. An ode... -
The Break-Up (2006)
At least one draft short of brilliance....[but] more palatable than the typical romantic comedy, thanks in large part to Vaughn's engaging duets with the ensemble. -
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Definitely propaganda on an issue that remains divisive....[but] Even if Gore is wrong, and I'm not saying he is, his proposed solutions are common-sensibly sound. -
Somersault (2006)
The 'free spirited innocent' archetype doesn't convincingly share residence with this numbly sexual Lolita. -
The Puffy Chair (2006)
[Not] very amusing--its stabs at humor are low-key to a fault, and too sporadic--but it is mostly truthful about yuppie love, and that's something. -
The Proposition (2006)
Cave uses the taming of Australia as the backdrop for a nasty, dirty western about the implications of violence. -
See No Evil (2006)
Amateur Hour-and-a-Half....It isn't fit for human consumption. -
Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)
Fatally short on laughs. The jokes are mostly bad vaudeville, as when Piven asks, "How much for 50 Cent? Okay, how about 17 Cent?" -
Over the Hedge (2006)
The voice work and animation are both a cut above the average, and the film's energy is brisk. -
Poseidon (2006)
There's camp, and there's just plain lousy writing. -
The Lost City (2006)
Musical...handsome...poignantly nostalgic...The Lost City is a lot of things, but what it's not is incisive. -
Goal! The Dream Begins (2006)
Obvious...All [but soccer fanatics] can pass on Goal! The Dream Begins and make plans now to avoid its two upcoming sequels. -
An American Haunting (2006)
On more than one occasion...a girl scrapes her fingernails across a wood floor as an invisible poltergeist attacks her. The wood floor may not be a chalkboard, but it's close enough. -
Just My Luck (2006)
Why does the new Lindsay Lohan picture have such a poo fixation?....Could it be that director Donald Petrie is Freudian slipping on his s**tty material? -
Down in the Valley (2006)
Though the film around it is often ungainly, an interesting idea lives at the heart of David Jacobson's Down in the Valley. When controlling parents alienate their children, they create an environmen... -
Art School Confidential (2006)
Zwigoff too often picks up his putty knife when he should be running with scissors...doesn't quite add up to the sum of its parts, but some of the parts are pretty amusing all the same. -
Hoot (2006)
Jimmy Buffet may be known for his Hawaiian shirts, but there's something undeniably plaid about Hoot. -
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
A thrill ride, and a gripping one: plausibility-straining, predictable at times, but pulse-pounding all the same. -
Water (2006)
Detailed and graced with irreverent humor and fine performances, Mehta's film deals powerful blows to economic injustice and misogyny. -
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
Dramatically jerry-rigged in every possible way. -
Stick It (2006)
Too lazy to perfect its own routine...[but] a surprisingly appealing vacation, from sense to sensibility. -
RV (2006)
Color me surprised when Barry Sonnenfeld's family comedy turned out to be a palatable picture that doesn't rob Robin Williams of his dignity as a comic actor. -
United 93 (2006)
A unique film about a unique event...but what will we think of United 93 in five years or, for that matter, fifty? -
Brick (2006)
The actors play it with poker-faces, but the further we go into the noir territory of hard-boiled, fast-paced dialogue and dames wrapped in crimson and black, the more ticklish Brick gets.