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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)

I sure hope Sandler's next movie is about learning the pain of Asian folks...that'd be hilarious!
Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007)

Your Mommy Kills Animals—Curt Johnson's documentary on the animal rights movement and the response to it—lays out some interesting information about the ire between "animal welfarists" an...
Cashback (2007)

Cashback's eccentricity holds, but Ellis and his audience would have benefited from a clearer direction and a bit more restraint.
Sunshine (2007)

There is nothing new under the sun, but at least the talented Boyle still brings the heat.
Rescue Dawn (2007)

Werner Herzog's stunning Rescue Dawn models true-story restraint. Based on the true story of U.S. Navy pilot Dieter Dengler—downed in Laos in 1965—Herzog's script hews closely to Dengler'...
Millions (2005)

Boyle's energetic pace and typically creative visuals suit the film's fanciful brushes with magic realism.
Lady Chatterley (2007)

D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover has been adapted several times for film, but few realize Lawrence wrote three entirely distinct novels about a wife thrillingly cuckolding her husband with the...
Manufactured Landscapes (2007)

Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky specializes in arresting photography of "manufactured landscapes": factories, quarries, mines, recycling plants, shipyards, dams, and heaps of rubble. Trailing...
Hairspray (2007)

A straightforward, unfussy musical comedy, one that entertains twice as much as the dour Dreamgirls.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

The latest workmanlike entry in what must be regarded as an unprecedented film series has plenty of flaws, but also the franchise's reliable draws.
Talk to Me (2007)

Could stand to focus more on scrupulous sociocultural history and less on compulsively entertaining the audience...has enough untold story and acting chops to make it worthwhile.
Gypsy Caravan (a.k.a. When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan) (2007)

To best enjoy the energetic and big-hearted Gypsy Caravan, know that it's not so much a concert film as it is a cultural-anthropology documentary...
Introducing the Dwights (a.k.a. Clubland) (2007)

A collision of Jeannie's story and Tim's story, and while that's appropriate, it also results in wobbly tone shifts (Gypsy meets Equus, without the horses?).
Black Sheep (2007)

King's film is a boffo short wantonly stretched to feature-length, well beyond the scope of his ideas...
Joshua (2007)

As the film wears on, it becomes increasingly difficult to separate the dry humor from the supposed chills. Consequently, Joshua drifts into camp.
License to Wed (2007)

Told primarily from the point-of-view of a young man (John Krasinski of The Office) about to be married, License to Wed makes hay of male anxieties about love and marriage. Robin Williams plays Rever...
Sicko (2007)

Though a debate about practical application would be welcome, Moore's people-person approach and sense of humor make Sicko a warm, humane, sad, and funny response to a social crisis.
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

Disappointingly generic...slips into last place in the series.
Evening (2007)

From its laughably lyrical opening to its bow-tying resolution, Lajos Koltai's Evening invites comparisons to Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movies.
Vitus (2007)

Built as it is around child actors, Fredi M. Murer's Vitus is the sort of cute import upon which the Weinstein Brothers used to pounce. Sony Pictures Classics does the honors this time, but Vitus is...
Stephanie Daley (2007)

Writer-director Hilary Brougher brings satisfying subtlety to Stephanie Daley, an issue film about a sixteen-year-old who may or may not have murdered her newborn child in a public restroom. The film...
Pierrepoint (a.k.a. Pierrepoint—The Last Hangman) (2007)

The new British indie Pierrepoint, co-produced by Masterpiece Theatre, bitterly regards the culture of capital punishment. Adrian Shergold's film is based on the true story of Albert Pierrepoint, who...
You Kill Me (2007)

A surprisingly resonant examination of getting sober, made amusing by [an] assassin's increasing honesty about his career.
Dreaming Lhasa (2007)

Dreaming Lhasa scores points simply for being the first film by Tibetans about contemporary Tibetan experience. Karma (Tenzin Chokyi Gyatso), a Tibetan documentarian living in New York, comes to Dhar...
Ratatouille (2007)

To watch Ratatouille is to recognize we're living in another golden age of American animation.
A Mighty Heart (2007)

A docudramatic TV movie at heart, and there's something unseemly about the film's inherently predictable build to Pearl's climactic grief.
Eagle vs. Shark (2007)

In the case of Eagle vs. Shark, the crime in question is plagiarism. New Zealand director Taika Waititi brought his short film "Two Cars, One Night" to Sundance the same year that Napoleon Dynamite m...
Evan Almighty (2007)

Will presumably charm wee ones, and...go over like gangbusters with the holy rollers, but others may notice this comedy of faith skimps on the comedy.
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

Soderbergh can no more put the fizz back in his flat bubbly than one can put a genie back in a bottle, but at least Ocean's Thirteen can still give you a light buzz.
Bruce Almighty (2003)

Though Liar Liar was sappy and obvious, it delivered plenty of riotous laughs and a perfectly pitched performance by Jim Carrey. Carrey's reunion with director Tom Shadyac--after Carrey's ill-fated,...
Fido (2007)

In this soft-spoken satire, writer-director Andrew Currie and co-writer Robert Chomiak imagine the '50s if every household had an enslaved zombie servant, and little Timmy (chipper child star K'Sun R...
Race You to the Bottom (2007)

Race You to the Bottom tells an only-in-California story: partly because it primarily takes place in Napa Valley, and partly because it's about a sexual relationship between a gay man and a straight...
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

A reading from the Books of Marvel...And the Surfer passed through buildings and buses with a squish...And Twentieth Century Fox said that it was good.
Crazy Love (2007)

Klores tells this story as well as its ever likely to be told...[and] as stories go, this one's a doozy.
Coeurs (a.k.a. Private Fears In Public Places) (2007)

Believe in forgiveness comes dropping slow on the characters, in the form of a snowfall that's possibly redemptive, but also cold.
Nancy Drew (2007)

The cumulative effect of Fleming's direction and Roberts' casting is to make eternal heroine Nancy into a chipmunk-chipper detective and a social nincompoop.
Nuovomondo (a.k.a. Golden Door) (2007)

All too successful in evoking the simple-mindedness of its immigrant naifs and the interminability of the Atlantic passage.
Knocked Up (2007)

Apatow's part in the rehab of the mainstream comedy relies on the underlying yearnings of archetypal social strivers.
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)

Gives a strong impression of the atmosphere, excitement and complexity of a Broadway production.
La Vie en Rose (2007)

More a visual-aural poem about Piaf than a definitive bio-epic of Piaf's complex life story.

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