By modern movie standards, the polite action-comedy about bumbling criminals seems awfully quaint. Might some refreshment be had from a rude slacker comedy featuring utter dumbshit criminals?

I’ve seen episodes of Lassie that made me ponder the human-animal relationship more than Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Cowboys & Aliens doesn’t just sound conceptually obvious; it’s obvious in every other way, too.

Captain America: The First Avenger does accurately reflect a few things from actual history. But while the United States did flirt with eugenics for a while, and Nazi Germany did try to vaporize whole populations, those scenes played out a lot less wholesomely in real life than they do as plot points in this adaptation of the Marvel Comics character’s story.

After the rambling first half of the final Harry Potter installment, the filmmakers get down to business to give the franchise a resilient balance of emotion, story and spectacle.

As a much more successful bromance comedy than The Hangover Part II, Horrible Bosses benefits from the volatile comic mixture of chemistry between its actors and a genuinely quirky script.

This must begin with a shameful confession: The trailer for Larry Crowne made me want to punch Julia Roberts in the face.

Writer-director André vredal’s film begins with a sober disclaimer. What follows, we’re told, is a chronologically assembled, unretouched trove of haphazard documentary footage, gathered by

The subversive wit of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s documentary !Women Art Revolution is apparent very early on, when the film uses man-on-the-street interviews for a pop quiz on women in museums. As Hershman Leeson asks us all in her narration, “Can anyone name three women artists?”

X-Men is the franchise we have to thank for the last decade’s numbing proliferation of comic-book superhero movies. So we should hold it to a higher standard.