All Movies
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Review: 'What Doesn't Kill You'
Crime drama features a full-scale performance from Mark Ruffalo.
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Review: 'The Reader'
Based on a bestselling novel, story follows the emotional transformation of a young German when he sees his former lover in a war-crimes trial.
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Review: 'Doubt'
Adaptation of prize-winning play serves up searing performances from Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Review: 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'
Remake of sci-fi classic is an ecofriendly fantasy that fails to live up to the original.
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Review: 'Che'
Overlong biopic offers little new to our knowledge of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as an icon and human being.
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Review: 'Frost/Nixon'
Docudrama portrays Nixon as a tragic figure attempting to rehabilitatehis image with a series of interviews with David Frost, a lightweightopportunist.
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Review: 'Wendy and Lucy'
Almost documentarylike, film superbly captures the low-key despair of the vagrant's life in these hard-pressed times.
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Review: 'Cadillac Records'
Set in 1950s Chicago, the story follows Chess record label's influential role in launching the careers of some musical greats.
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Review: 'Milk'
Biopic about the first openly gay man to hold a major political office in America is bolstered by Sean Penn's superb performance as Harvey Milk.
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Review: 'Australia'
Overlong drama set in the 1930s Outback earns epic tag for all the wrong reasons.
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Review: 'Bolt'
Clever casting in Disney's latest animation brings wit and energy to the tale of a self-deluded dog.
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Review: 'House of the Sleeping Beauties'
German film about a lonely widower who sleeps beside drugged, naked women has a high yuck factor.
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Review: 'Lake City'
Family drama about a mother and son who reunite after a tragedy has talented actors but uneven story treatment.
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Review: 'Twilight'
Debut movie of the wildly popular book franchise is jumbled and hackneyed but will still have teen girls screaming at lead Robert Pattinson.
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Review: 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Set in India, this Dickensian fable for our time seems to work – up to a point.
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Review: 'A Christmas Tale'
This French dysfunctional-family epic is gabby and self-indulgent.
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Review: 'Quantum of Solace'
Has 007 lost his sense of humor? Daniel Craig's lethal grimness saps the fun.
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Review: 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas'
A young German boy befriends a Jewish boy in a nearby concentration camp, unaware of the enormity of the horror going on behind the fence.
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Review: 'Repo! The Genetic Opera'
This musical is a cross between 'Rocky Horror' and 'Sweeney Todd' but without the savage wit.
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Review: 'Pray the Devil Back to Hell'
Documentary records the heroism of Liberia's women who successfully demanded the country's warring parties find a path to peace.
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