Nationwide Releases
Michael Mann, creator of the tv series, directs the movie version with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as the leads.
RT Score: 49%
RT Consensus: Miami Vice is beautifully shot but the lead characters lack the charisma of their TV series counterparts, and the underdeveloped story is well below the standards of Michael Mann’s better films.
“Full-blooded and fierce, Miami Vice is the antidote for other TV-to-film adaptations.”
– Phil Villarreal
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
“Miami Vice, as entertaining as some of it is, is so cool that it’s almost too cool. It takes the sin, and much of the juice, out of vice.”
– Owen Gleiberman
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“Routine in some respects, but in others, it delivers everything expected of a summer blockbuster. And it’s gorgeous.”
– Boo Allen
DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE (TX)
“If you’re looking for a crime story that sizzles with action, sex and the visceral jolt of life on the edge, Miami Vice is the one.”
– Peter Travers
ROLLING STONE
“A dark pastiche of murky drug deals and menacing thugs sans the tongue-in-cheek humor and neon nights of television’s crayola-washed classic.”
– Jeanne Aufmuth
PALO ALTO WEEKLY
“Characters gather in really cool places (million-dollar apartments, speedboats, South American warehouses, etc.), look really serious and read expository dialogue in a low murmur.”
– Jeffrey M. Anderson
COMBUSTIBLE CELLULOID
“Gone are the pastels, the pet alligator from this dark, gritty modern-day version of the ’80s TV show. Unfortunately, gone too is some of that fresh style that made the show unique, leaving us with just another dark, gritty crime drama.”
– Kit Bowen
HOLLYWOOD.COM
Three girls find out that they are dating the same guy so they decide to make him fall for another girl to exact revenge on him.
RT Score: 23%
RT Consensus: This derivitive teen comedy tries to go for cute when it could use more bite.
“… a timid, screamingly unfunny rip-off of Heathers …”
– Peter Travers
ROLLING STONE
“This idiotic teen comedy settles for being silly and cutesy when just a little bit of snarkiness (a la Mean Girls) could have saved it.”
– Jeff Vice
DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
“Made for teenagers and they’ll be seeing it no matter what we say. I would too if I was 16 and saw the poster. Wait for the DVD.”
– John Venable
SUPERCALA.COM
“This comedy about four high-school girls getting revenge on a triple-timing jock strikes the poses of a teen sex comedy, but it contains no sex and hardly any comedy.”
– Mike Russell
OREGONIAN
“Don’t die, just go away. … Where’s John Hughes when we need him?”
– Larry Ratliff
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
A boy manages to get shrunk to the size of a ant and sees things from their perspective.
RT Score: 65%
RT Consensus: Sometimes inventive and witty, this animated adventure into an ant-sized world is a pleasant diversion.
“The Ant Bully won’t battle your Pixar collection for DVD shelf space for that matter, neither will Pixar’s latest, Cars — but nor will it have you staring at your watch.”
– Phil Villarreal
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
“An effortlessly clever animated confection directed by Jimmy Neutron creator John A. Davis.”
– Lisa Schwarzbaum
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“…too many similarities to previous animations like Antz and the recent Over the Hedge often give The Ant Bully the feel of an also-ran.”
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– Laura Clifford
REELING REVIEWS
“Achieves many surprising pleasures during its run, with its splendid animation bursting with a crispness of imagery that puts most of the stylings this year to shame.”
– Erik Childress
EFILMCRITIC.COM
“The Ant Bully is a sore disappointment to anyone hoping for a turnaround to the recent downward quality spiral of animated films. In fact, this movie may represent a new nadir for 3D animation.”
– James Berardinelli
REELVIEWS
“The Ant Bully is lovely to look at but a headache to listen to.”
– Justin Chang
VARIETY
“The Ant Bully, which was three years in the making, seems fussed over and, occasionally, a little dull.”
– Stephen Cole
GLOBE AND MAIL
Limited Releases
A little girl is a finalist in a beauty contest and her entire dysfunctional family makes the road trip to California. Starring Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear and Alan Arkin.
RT Score: 92%
RT Consensus: A moving satire about a dysfunctional family obsessed with winning, Little Miss Sunshine captivates and convulses with its perfectly-cast ensemble and delightfully funny script.
“A very funny and touching family drama about the wisdom that often comes not with success but with failure.”
– Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
SPIRITUALITY AND PRACTICE
“The characters in the Sundance hit Little Miss Sunshine are so adeptly drawn — and superbly played — that you can easily forgive the film’s sometimes forced kookiness.”
– Glenn Whipp
LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
“So brilliantly, hysterically perfect that the graceful message beneath it hardly registers: we’re laughing so hard we’ve literally stopped breathing.”
– Rob Vaux
FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
“It’s good for some laughs, though I don’t see it holding up to multiple viewings.”
– Eric D. Snider
ERICDSNIDER.COM
“Sorry, folks, but these are not organic characters; they’re walking, talking catalogs of screenwriter index-card data.”
– Owen Gleiberman
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
A young man eavesdrops about a way to make easy money for his poor family, but finds himself involved in a gambling game where bets are placed on human life.
RT Score: 88%
RT Consensus: This starkly minimalist nail-biter of a thriller relentlessly builds up the tension and keeps the audience guessing.
“French art thriller 13 Tzameti has a literal hair-trigger premise, yet it’s so lacking in human dimensions that it creates virtually no suspense.”
– Owen Gleiberman
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“Astonishingly accomplished debut feature that combines Hitchcockian suspense with a showdown whose unflinching attitude to violence will pin you to the seat.”
– David Parkinson
EMPIRE MAGAZINE [UK]
“You can almost smell the nervous sweat running down these men’s backs. You can almost feel the damp.”
– Stephen Whitty
NEWARK STAR-LEDGER
“The resulting jolts add up to one unforgettably surreal nightmare.”
– Elizabeth Weitzman
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
“An intense and claustrophobic thriller.”
– Frank Scheck
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Scarlett Johansson is an investigative journalist writing the story of her career about a serial killer, who might be the man (Hugh Jackman) she is falling in love with.
RT Score: 39%
RT Consensus: Rehashing old plot lines and characters, Scoop is a tiresome dipper and another disappointing addition to Woody Allen’s repertoire.
“Maybe Scoop wouldn’t have sunk if Woody the costar were thrown overboard…. What once was a gifted comic’s fluid improvisation is now a doddering old man so embarrassing he’s uncomfortable to watch.”
– Aaron Hillis
PREMIERE MAGAZINE
“Scoop is no more than a beguiling trifle. But in the dog days of summer, it’s a perk to wallow in inspired silliness.”
– Peter Travers
ROLLING STONE
“A companion piece to Match Point that suffers all the more in comparison.”
– Lisa Schwarzbaum
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“The dead serious Match Point was actually funnier, which should tell you all you need to know about Allen’s latest exercise in laziness.”
– Glenn Whipp
LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
“This is pretty much a younger, cast-conscious re-do of his 1993 film Manhattan Murder Mystery, which isn’t that fondly remembered.”
– Jeff Vice
DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
“Is it a classic? Nah. It’s light as air. But it’s a zippy good time for 90 minutes or so.”
– Eric D. Snider
ERICDSNIDER.COM
Mockumentary about a set of conjoined twins in 1970s England who rise to fame fronting a punk rock group.
RT Score: 69%
RT Consensus: As bizarre as it is, this mockumentary about a pair of conjoined rockers is surprisingly poignant and filled with authentic period details.
“A glumly serious British mock rock doc: You could forgive the paucity of jokes if Brothers of the Head had anything to say, or if the ’70s-verite surface were remotely convincing.”
– Owen Gleiberman
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“Yes, this is another faux rock documentary, but one so dramatically and visually textured that it reinvents that decidedly worn genre.”
– Chuck Wilson
L.A. WEEKLY
“Is appropriately moody and gets the music right, but becomes as incoherent and messy as the lives of the protagonists in the film’s second half.”
– Boyd van Hoeij
EUROPEANFILMS.NET
“Ever wonder how much more fun/disastrous Oasis would have been if Noel and Liam were attached at the chest? This is your chance to find out how that would play out.”
– Jon Popick
PLANET SICK-BOY
Gay spoof on all the teen sex comedies.
RT Score: 40%
“Why shouldn’t homosexuals have the same loud ’n’ stupid sex comedies that mainstream society expects almost as a birthright? Perhaps, but making a gay film only slightly less intolerable than its straight counterparts isn’t much to be proud of.”
– Tim Grierson
L.A. WEEKLY
“Another Gay Movie strikes a very distinct pose as a queer counterpoint to American Pie but doesn’t trust its gut, overextending itself by performing in Scary Movie drag.”
– Ed Gonzalez
SLANT MAGAZINE
“It’s rude and chaotic and, for the right audience, hilarious.”
– Rich Cline
SHADOWS ON THE WALL
“In its very existence, Another Gay Movie qualifies as a political statement, and Stephens’ sentiment is hugely admirable. But those points don’t make Another Gay Movie good.”
– Peter Canavese
GROUCHO REVIEWS
Tracking how America is becoming a police state from paying income tax, voter fraud, national identity cards and radio frequency identification.
RT Score: 19%
“[Russo] has created such an inflammatory piece of clumsy propaganda it’s hard to take his best arguments seriously.”
– John Anderson
NEWSDAY
“Russo appears to make a good case against the IRS, but he does so sneakily, belligerently, and from a grotesquely unattractive soap box.”
– Ed Gonzalez
SLANT MAGAZINE
“If America: From Freedom to Fascism is right only 10 percent of the time, we’re in big trouble.”
– Robert W. Butler
KANSAS CITY STAR
“Just as the film’s arguments start growing persuasive, Russo (who also narrates the movie) undermines his work by freefalling into a tangled web of all-out conspiracy-mongering.”
– Marjorie Baumgarten
AUSTIN CHRONICLE
“This movie is so humorless that it makes you wax nostalgic for the good old days when Michael Moore was sticking it to the man. “
– Dan Jardine
CINEMANIA
Documentary about a Greenwich Village restaurant, Shopins, having to move due to financial reasons to a new location and how its customers are devastated by the move.
RT Score: 100%
“Shopsin is a character. He’s loud, lewd and fat, speaks his mind on just about every subject known to man, and is beloved by his regular customers, who follow him to his new digs.”
– Eric Lurio
ENTERTAINMENT INSIDERS
“It is a joy of a movie. But watching it hungry — at least for those of us outside New York, or those New Yorkers who Kenny refuses to serve — only creates an appetite that cannot possibly be satisfied.”
– Pam Grady
REEL.COM
“It’s a rough-hewn film, more interesting, probably, to those who’ve actually made it through a meal there, but fun and maybe even inspiring.”
– John Anderson
NEWSDAY
Amma is the Mother Theresa of India. She’s a spiritual guide who gives charitable donations and fights for peace.
RT Score: 44%
“A documentary about Amma, India’s hugging saint, that reveals her large reserves of unconditional love, playfulness, compassion, and service of the poor.”
– Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
SPIRITUALITY AND PRACTICE
“Even if the idea of spiritual gurus and personality cults make you slightly uncomfortable, Jan Kounen’s beautifully filmed portrait of Sri Mata Amritanandamayi offers enough beautiful shots of India to seduce even the least spiritual of travelers.”
– Ken Fox
TV GUIDE’S MOVIE GUIDE
“Without explanatory narration, the impressionistic editing is likely to prove tedious for the uninitiated.”
– Ben Kenigsberg
VILLAGE VOICE
How to Go Out on a Date in Queens
Stan thinks he has dating all figured out and is imparting his wisdom on all his friends.
RT Score: 0%
“There are a lot of stories here, and, perhaps because none of them could sustain an entire film, they all ended up in this one.”
– Stephanie Lysaght, L.A. WEEKLY
