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Call the exterminator: The tuneful rodents are back
Alvin, Simon, and Theodore have good reason to squeak: Girl chipmunks enter the picture.
Behind-the-scenes at NYC's legendary hotel is just PR fluff.
A couple try to reignite their marriage
(This Chronicle review is reprinted from an earlier screening of the film at the Austin Film Festival 2002.) The history of apartheid in South Africa is an ugly story, but one that needs to be told. ...
Amateur (1994, 105 min., R)
A Hal Hartley film is an acquired taste. A viewer can slip in and out of appreciation for Hartley's work, but it takes a true Hartley-ite to champion all of his films without pause. With Amateur, ...
The lost concert movie of the nights that Aretha Franklin recorded her iconic album
Unfortunately, what makes British abolitionist William Wilberforce a great man is also what makes him dull: his single-minded righteousness.
How about The Boring Panda Adventure? Or maybe The Formulaic Disney Ripoff? Either one is a more apt title for this tired retread of Uncle Walt's past nature-in-jeopardy vehicles. When 10-year-old Ryan Tyler (Slater) is invited ...
More proves to be less for Spidey this time out.
The Amazing Spider-Meh might be a better name for this dullish retread.
The Amazon River Basin -- seething with life, death, corruption and rebirth -- has always been easy food for filmmakers, and though this new film is about as far as one can get from recent, guilt-heavy ...
With daring, gonzo filmmaking, this documentary film penetrates the blood-diamond trade in the Central African Republic.
Ambulance (2022, 136 min., R)
Is it good? No. Is it Michael Bay at his most explodey? Yes.
Amelia (2009, 111 min., PG)
Hilary Swank stars as Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair's big-budget biopic.
Amélie (2001, 122 min., R)
Why not get happy? Why not celebrate love, and little twists of fate, and a sepia-in-Technicolor portrait of Paris? Amélie's heart is in the right place – squarely on its sleeve. And what better place for it?
Amen. (2002, 132 min., NR)
Firebrand filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Missing) turns his lens upon the Holocaust, examining the conditions that allowed the mass exterminations of Jews to continue in virtually full view of the world. This is the story of Lt. Kurt ...
Although grounded in Libertarian theory, this documentary by producer-turned-director Aaron Russo presents provocative material about the perceived illegality of income taxes – and various freedom-restricting consequences of the new world order.
Former Disney Chairman Joe Roth takes the directing helm with this bitchy romantic comedy, and wouldn't you know it, it's better than half the chipper fare out there these days. Admittedly, that's not saying much, but ...
Truth, lies, and self-deception in this remarkable true-crime docudrama
The bestselling series hits the screen
This Oscar winner is a bleak comedy of suburban mores and one man's sudden rejection of the arrangement.
Notes from a Business 101 course taught by David Mamet: The two most important principles in any transaction are: (1) Fuck the other guy; and (2) Piss on him after. At least, that's what I imagine ...
Michael Moore and left-leaning Hollywood are the subjects of this spoof that's missing only one thing: comedy.
With American Cyborg, Yoram Globus and his new company Global Pictures sever his ties with former co-producer Menachem Golan and offer up this mid-Eighties throwback featuring rampaging cyborgs, a post-nuclear New York, and the last fetus ...
Steve Bannon dissected by the great Errol Morris
Kopple's Academy Award-winning documentary American Dream exposes the human cost of Reaganomics. The movie focuses on the mid-1980s labor strike at Hormel's Austin, Minnesota meat packing plant (Hormel produces Spam, Dinty Moore, Old Smokehouse, ham, bacon ...
Jim Gaffigan shows a flair for darkness, but this rideshare thriller stays in neutral
American Dreamz tries to satirize the vapidity of American popular culture; instead, the film gets trapped beneath its own wheels.
Perched like a queen on her throne -- here, the back seat of a 1957 Cadillac -- Jeffrey Strough gives a royal performance in American Fabulous. Blessed with the gift of gab, the twentysomething Jeffrey prattles ...