Any film that uses the Carpenters' pop hit "We've Only Just Begun" for scares instead of sentimentality must be credited with a quirky sense of humor.
Seen opening day -- forget about press screenings, of course -- "DOA: Dead or Alive" did manage to produce feelings of giddy fun, if only briefly.
The third roll of the dice for George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and their merry band of casino crooks is an almost certain winner for its makers, a break-even deal at best for audiences.
"Day Watch," a successor to the Russian sci-fi extravaganza "Night Watch" (2004), is every bit as messy and moronic as the original film.
Everything you've heard about "Knocked Up" is true: It's even more riotously and consistently hilarious than its predecessor, Judd Apatow's 2005 sleeper hit "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," with even greater heart.
It takes an age before Johnny Depp shows his face in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," and when he does, it's the tip of his nose that looms into screen left, eventually succeeded by a flaring nostril.
"Shrek the Third" begins with a death, and from there the movie itself steadily dies.
Forgiveness is on the minds of many characters in "Spider-Man 3." They ponder if they're capable of offering it, worthy of receiving it — and whether, as the saying goes, it will ultimately prove divine.
There is a shot of Ryan Gosling in the new crime thriller "Fracture," tooling down a residential street in Los Angeles behind the wheel of a well-used red BMW.
"Vacancy" begins in a world of darkness on a road to nowhere, and it soon proves to be the kind of sleazily effective horror or genre movie Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino were trying to make in "Grindhouse."
In its climactic village assault, the English comedy "Hot Fuzz" risks becoming the excessive, slow-mo-slaughter affair it's satirizing.
Disturbia is a savagely efficient eyewitness-to-murder thriller, a Rear Window for the YouTube generation.
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