“Burlesque” is a tawdry TinselTown amalgam of “Showgirls” and “Glitter.” Read more

The young students’ stories are surely Waiting for ‘Superman’’s most effective strategy, but it’s hard not to wonder at how they are being used in such a slick enterprise. Read more>>

Let’s be thankful for Charles Ferguson’s fascinating – and infuriating – examination of our country’s 2008 economic collapse, a catastrophe of historic proportions that has affected every American and reverberated around the world. Read more

As this adventure begins, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) have fled from the protection of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry because Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and his evil followers - including Severus Snape (Alan Rickman), Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonhan Carter), Lucius Malfoy (Jason Isaacs) and his son Draco (Tom Felton) - have taken control of England’s Ministry of Magic. Read more

Piotr Tchaikovky must be spinning in his grave! Russian director Andrei Kanchalovsky’s variation on E.T.A. Hoffman’s “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” is one of the most wretched extravaganzas ever mounted on the big screen. Read more

As fast-moving runaway train thrillers go, this rumbles. Read more

The elegance and versatility of 80 year-old Clint Eastwood never ceases to amaze, along with his remarkable productivity, including “Invictus,” “Gran Torino,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Changeling,” “Letters from Iwo Jima,” “Flags of Our Fathers,” and “Mystic River.” His latest - and most unconventional – challenge is a tantalizing, melancholy meditation on mortality and the afterlife. Read more

Comedy’s hard but the challenge is made a bit easier when you’ve got a leading lady like perky Rachel McAdams, who so completely embodies her character of a 28 year-old wannabe television producer that Harrison Ford graciously gave her top-billing. Read more

It’s too little, too late – this attack on President George W. Bush’s ill-advised decision to attack Iraq on the basis of faulty intelligence indicating that Saddam Hussein not only possessed but was ready to launch weapons of mass destruction. Read more

The Colored House of Pain: “For Colored Girls” plays the same note of agony over and over, as each narrative recounts the abuse that a Black woman has faced from Black men in her life. Read more>>