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Reviewer grade: D   Family man and investment banker Richard Cooper (Chris Rock) is bored with life. His wife, Brenda (Gina Torres), won’t have sex with him, forcing him to daydream about sleeping with beautiful women he sees in public. When old flame Nikki Tru (Kerry Washington) comes back in his life, Richard begins to […]

Reviewer grade: C-   Wes Craven and his son Jonathan co-wrote this sequel to last year’s successful remake of Papa Craven’s 1977 original. This time out, a team of National Guard recruits is taken into the desert of the American Southwest to find out why some scientists camped there have not been responding to radio […]

 2006With the past few years having witnessed a renaissance in socially conscious documentary filmmaking, “Cocaine Cowboys” marches to its own politically incorrect drummer. Director Billy Corben (“Raw Deal”) zeroes in on the cocaine trade that flourished in Miami throughout the late Seventies and early Eighties, an era when that city’s murder rate skyrocketed right along […]

  2006Magic gets the girl in this romantic Vienna-set period piece staring Edward Norton as illusionist Eisenheim. Written and directed by Neil Burger (“Interview with the Assassin”), this film is paced and ambient enough to seem truly magical. Eisenheim works his charm to woo Sophie (Jessica Biel), a well-off woman from his childhood, from the […]

2006 After seeing “Borat” in theaters, I thought it was one of the five funniest movies I’d ever seen. But at home? Still one of the five funniest movies I’ve ever seen.   Fresh off an Oscar nomination, “Borat” still plays like a brave and ballsy (sometimes literally) work of guerilla comedy. Sacha Baron Cohen […]

2005 If you wondered about the level of expectation for Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s follow-up to the critically adored “The Office,” it’s right there in the title of a behind-the-scenes featurette: “The Difficult Second Album.” A show doomed to failure before most had even seen it, the choruses of “overrated” were considerable, but somehow, […]

2006 This tongue-in-cheek actioner didn’t do so well in theaters. I think its mix-master editing put a lot of people off “? “Domino” didn’t do well, either, and it has the same feel of everything happening at once.   Jason Statham, the best pure action hero going right now, is Chev Chelios, a hit man […]

2006 If you love this kind of silliness as much as you should, “Snakes on a Plane” is more fun than any of summer 2006’s overproduced blockbusters. Just don’t ask it to make sense.   Director David R. Ellis (“Final Destination 2,” “Cellular”) seems to be fashioning a career out of turning highly implausible material […]