Pointless futuristic action outing in which a mobster (Gerard Depardieu) hires a mercenary (Vin Diesel) to escort a mysteriously gifted young woman (Melanie Thierry) and her guardian (Michelle Yeoh) from Mongolia to New York and deliver her to the minions of her cult's high priestess (Charlotte Rampling). Though not excessively violent, director Mathieu Kassovitz's leaden adaptation of French author Maurice...
(See full review) Salacious, smile-free teen comedy about three high school seniors (Drake Bell, Andrew Caldwell and Kevin Covais) on a weekend campus tour who opt to stay in a fraternity house, drawn by its booze and strippers, but have to endure crude hazing by its loutish leader (Nick Zano), while one falls in love with a pretty coed (Haley Bennett) who takes...
(See full review) Wacky sophomoric spoof of the genre—with takeoffs on every iconic movie character of the past year (e.g., Indiana Jones, Beowulf, Prince Caspian and the Love Guru) thrown in for good measure—as a young man (Matt Lanter) and a motley crew (Gay "G-Thang" Johnson, Nicole Parker, Kim Kardashian and Crista Flanagan) attempt to rescue his girlfriend (Vanessa Minnillo) amid nonstop calamities....
(See full review) Offbeat but well-made and strangely affecting Scottish coming-of-age tale about a voyeuristic teen (an excellent Jamie Bell). Deeply troubled after the drowning death of his mother, he leaves his father (Ciaran Hinds) and stepmother (Claire Forlaini), whom he suspects of poisoning his mother, and takes a kitchen job at an Edinburgh hotel where he falls for a personnel director (Sophia...
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