Despite a winning performance by Anna Faris, the cutest thing in platform shoes since Goldie Hawn, the film falls on its keister so many times that before long the perky pinkness turns bruising black-and-blue. Read more>>

The defining moment in Tia Lessen and Carl Deal’s post-Katrina documentary, Trouble The Water, comes when the filmmakers hook up with Kimberly and Scott Roberts, a New Orleans couple who’d survived the hurricane and have personal footage from inside the calamitous event that put their Ninth Ward home and everything around it under water. Read more>>

“Hamlet 2″ spoofs a lot more than the Bard, from putting-on-a-show satires to Hollywood’s seemingly endless fixation with inspirational teachers. Read more>>

For a movie working so hard to be unconventional, the Sundance Film Festival favorite “Hamlet 2” is surprisingly predictable. Read more>>

A crowd-pleaser at the Sundance Film Festival, this indie comedy is Ham-lite, to be sure. Read more<<

The film doesn’t keep wholly focused on its generic/anti-generic tensions, however, and at times the excess becomes the center. Read more>>

Think of this as Economics 101, a primer on how America and Americans spend, and what hardships the future holds for us–unless we change the pattern and our habits quickly. Read more>>

All signs point to the fact that we are not supposed to take the new film, “Death Race,” too seriously. But with video game-like violence, it does tell a story about the dangers of the prison-industrial complex. Read more>>

As the title indicates, the movie delivers slam-bam car crashes with machine guns, napalm canisters and spiky road hazards. The violence is sometimes grotesque and the action sequences overly frenetic, but Anderson shows enough restraint to make it mostly mindlessly entertaining. Read more>>

AWFJ highlights films made by and about women Read more