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Review: 'Man on Wire'

Documentary about the French wire walker who walked between the World Trade Center towers, 110 stories up, examines the heroic and flat-out crazy aspects of the feat.
Review: 'The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'

Latest Mummy movie races through the catacombs of ancient China, with yetis and terra-cotta armies not far behind.
Review: 'Swing Vote'

Political comedy uses wild premise to serve up a civics lessons without much substance.
Review: 'Frozen River'

Affecting drama about a mother who smuggles illegal immigrants from Canada to the US has startlingly good acting.
Review: 'Step Brothers'

Comedy about a couple of grown men acting like stunted 14-year-olds oversteps the limit of loserliness.
Review: 'The X-Files: I Want to Believe'

Mulder and Scully reprise their traditional roles in a dark and doomy world, as Billy Connolly plays a visionary priest.
Review: 'American Teen'

Documentary about four Indiana teens in their senior year of high school comes across like a reality TV show with equally limited insight.
Review: 'Brideshead Revisited'

Lastest interpretation of Evelyn Waugh's novel is more egalitarian and faith-oriented with a superb performance by Emma Thompson as the family matriarch.
Review: 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired'

Documentary on the famous film director's conviction in LA 30 years ago delves as much into the legal system as Polanski's psyche.
Review: 'Space Chimps'

This animated feature about chimp astronauts more than pales in comparison to WALL-E.
Review: 'The Dark Knight'

The latest Batman movie is a relentlessly bleak take on the comic book, with a superb performance by Heath Ledger as the Joker.
Review: 'Mamma Mia! The Movie'

This loopy ABBA musical has Meryl Streep playing a superannuated American hippie running a funky hotel on a Greek island and preparing for her daughter's marriage.
Review: 'Meet Dave'

Eddie Murphy demonstrates his comedic gifts again this time as an alien spaceship shaped as a human entity.
Review: 'The Exiles'

The loneliness, despair, and renewal in this semidocumentary account of native Americans living in Los Angeles is some of the most eloquent in American cinema.
Review: 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'

Remake of the Jules Verne classic lacks some of the sense of wonder of earlier version despite its splashy special effects.
Review: 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army'

Another bulked-up superhero returns, accompanied by an endless parade of freaks and creepy-crawlies, to fight an otherworldly army.
Review: 'The Wackness'

Set in the hip-hop culture of 1990s New York, this tale of a cross-generational friendship between two self-indulgent men quickly wears thin.
Review: 'Hancock'

Another reluctant superhero takes to the screen with Will Smith in full comedy mode, but plot swerves undermine second half.
Review: 'Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson'

Documentary about a journalist's drug-fueled exploits and equally wild prose tends toward the worshipful and neglects sadder aspects of his life.
Review: 'Tell No One'

French psychological thriller has a sleek cast but an overly complicated plot.