Reviews of the latest films.

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• The Road Prepare to be bludgeoned.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 25, 2009
  
• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage invent their own blend of crazy.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 20, 2009
  
• Illegal Use of Sandra Bullock The Blind Side should have been a great movie about football.
  Josh Levin Nov. 20, 2009
  
• The Twilight Saga: New Moon I can't defend this movie, but I loved it.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 19, 2009
  
• It's the End of the World as We Know It But Roland Emmerich's 2012 will make you feel more than fine.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 13, 2009
  
• Fantastic Mr. Fox You don't want to watch this movie, you want to climb inside it and play.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 13, 2009
  
• Scrooge 3.0 A 3-D motion-capture version of A Christmas Carol.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 6, 2009
  
• I Can Do Normal, Really Richard Kelly tries to direct a mainstream movie in The Box.
  John Swansburg Nov. 6, 2009
  
• Precious Sorry, I didn't like this movie.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 6, 2009
  
• Paranormal Activity A parable about the credit crisis and unthinking consumerism.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 30, 2009
  
• The Last Moonwalk Michael Jackson's incredibly moving This Is It.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 28, 2009
  
• Amelia I wish biopics like this would get lost at sea.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 23, 2009
  
• Game Over Why I'll never watch another Lars von Trier movie.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 22, 2009
  
• Jaa Rules Bow down before the awesomeness of Tony Jaa in Ong Bak 2.
  Grady Hendrix Oct. 22, 2009
  
• The Maid A movie about a well-off family and their maid from a gifted 30-year-old director.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 16, 2009
  
• Where the Mildly Depressed Things Are Spike Jonze's adaptation of the Sendak classic has too many mopey monsters, not enough Max.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 15, 2009
  
• Straight Talk Chris Rock's lighthearted documentary asks, What is Good Hair?
  Dana Stevens Oct. 9, 2009
  
• An Education The movie is by the book, but Carey Mulligan is magnetic.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 8, 2009
  
• Self-Love and Basketball How More than a Game buffs LeBron James' reputation.
  Josh Levin Oct. 8, 2009
  
• This Is Just an OK Movie The Invention of Lying imagines a world where no one can sugarcoat the truth.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 3, 2009
  
• Naked Female Zombies Running in Slow Motion The subtle nuances of Zombieland.
  Josh Levin Oct. 1, 2009
  
• A Serious Man A seriously good Coen brothers movie.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 1, 2009
  
• There's Something About Keats Jane Campion's terrific Bright Star.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 25, 2009
  
• Capitalism: A Love Story Michael Moore's latest simplistic, infuriating, inspiring documentary.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 24, 2009
  
• The Informant! Steven Soderbergh confuses me!
  Dana Stevens Sept. 18, 2009
  
• Jennifer's Body One of the most purely pleasurable movies of the year so far.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 17, 2009
  
• An Inconvenient Husband A Manhattan dad asks his family to forgo toilet paper, electricity, and other necessities to live the greenest life possible.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 11, 2009
  
• Little Burlap Guys Watch them save the world in 9.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 10, 2009
  
• American Casino Is it possible to make an interesting documentary about the financial crisis?
  Dana Stevens Sept. 4, 2009
  
• The Discreet Charm of the American Bonehead Mike Judge's Extract is better than Office Space.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 4, 2009
  
• Big Fan A movie about sports obsession destined to be a cult classic.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 28, 2009
  
• The Dud in the Mud Ang Lee's slight and gentle-spirited Taking Woodstock.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 27, 2009
  
• The Baader Meinhof Complex When German terrorists tried to bomb their way to a better world.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 21, 2009
  
• The Good, the Bad, and the Nazis Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 20, 2009
  
• The Time Traveler's Wife I wish I could travel back to a time when I hadn't seen this movie.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 14, 2009
  
• They Came From the Boardroom The dull, anti-corporate politics of District 9.
  Daniel Engber Aug. 13, 2009
  
• Ponyo Hayao Miyazaki retells the story of The Little Mermaid—with less suffering and more ramen noodles.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 12, 2009
  
• Julie & Julia Meryl Streep is amazingly good as Julia Child.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 6, 2009
  
• Lorna's Silence Another unsentimental and suspenseful tour de force from the Dardenne brothers.
  Dana Stevens July 31, 2009
  
• Funny People Judd Apatow's niceness problem.
  Dana Stevens July 30, 2009
  
• In the Loop F'in brilliant.
  Dana Stevens July 23, 2009
  
• (500) Days of Summer Almost a classic romantic comedy.
  Dana Stevens July 16, 2009
  
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Kind of like 90210 with owls.
  Dana Stevens July 15, 2009
  
• Humpday Best buds make an amateur gay porn film, starring each other.
  Dana Stevens July 10, 2009
  
• Whipping Boy Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno arrives on our shores.
  Dana Stevens July 9, 2009
  
• He-Man and the Infinite Sadness And other genius responses to Slate's create-your-own-toy-movie contest.
  Dana Stevens July 2, 2009
  
• Original Gangster Michael Mann films the life of John Dillinger in Public Enemies.
  Dana Stevens July 1, 2009
  
• The Hurt Locker You will never see a better movie about an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team.
  Dana Stevens June 25, 2009
  
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Why can't robots get along with other robots?
  Dana Stevens June 24, 2009
  
• Two Cave Men Walk Into the Old Testament The pleasing conceptual simplicity of Year One.
  Dana Stevens June 19, 2009
  
• Please Disregard Your Enthusiasm Yes, Larry David is in a Woody Allen movie. No, you shouldn't go see it.
  Dana Stevens June 19, 2009
  
• Stand Clear of the Cinema Doors The Taking of Pelham 123, reviewed.
  John Swansburg June 11, 2009
  
• Staggering Quirkiness Away We Go tells the story of two slacker parents-to-be, with a screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida.
  Dana Stevens June 5, 2009
  
• Dumb Summer Guy Movies The Hangover and Land of the Lost attempt to amuse dudes everywhere.
  Dana Stevens June 4, 2009
  
• Spoiler Special: An Alternate Reading of Drag Me to Hell What if Alison Lohman's Christine isn't cursed but crazy?
  Dana Stevens June 1, 2009
  
• Go to Hell Sam Raimi can still scare you silly.
  Dana Stevens May 29, 2009
  
• Time To Get High Pixar's Up is awesome.
  Dana Stevens May 28, 2009
  
• Ho Mortgage Crisis Stephen Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience examines the financial moment through the life of a high-end call girl.
  Dana Stevens May 22, 2009
  
• Robot Parade Terminator: Salvation is loud and dull.
  Dana Stevens May 21, 2009
  
• Buddhist Stalkers, Orphan Con Men Management and The Brothers Bloom, reviewed.
  Dana Stevens May 15, 2009
  
• It's Hard Out There for a Symbologist Tom Hanks returns in a sequel to The Da Vinci Code.
  Dana Stevens May 14, 2009
  
• Super Soccer Stars Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal in Rudo y Cursi.
  Dana Stevens May 8, 2009
  
• Go See Star Trek It's logical.
  Dana Stevens May 7, 2009
  
• The Limits of Boredom A new movie from Jim Jarmusch.
  Dana Stevens May 1, 2009
  
• Sideburns of Steel Wolverine is a long movie.
  Dana Stevens April 30, 2009
  
• Cello Shots Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. in The Soloist. 
  Dana Stevens April 24, 2009
  
• Bite Club James Toback's weird documentary of Mike Tyson.
  Dana Stevens April 23, 2009
  
• The Last Action Hero How Jason Statham became the world's biggest B-movie star.
  Jody Rosen April 17, 2009
  
• Deadlines Russell Crowe as an investigative journalist in State of Play.
  Dana Stevens April 16, 2009
  
• This Is Anvil! A documentary about Canada's most forgotten metal band.
  Dana Stevens April 10, 2009
  
• Observe and Report The feel-weird comedy of the season!
  Dana Stevens April 9, 2009
  
• The History Boys 
  Dana Stevens April 6, 2009
  
• Beowulf A review in verse.
  Dana Stevens April 6, 2009
  
• Back in the Summer of '87 Greg Mottola's wonderful Adventureland.
  Dana Stevens April 3, 2009
  
• Bright Lights, Big Curveball The remarkable Sugar tells the story of Dominican baseball prodigies in the United States.
  Dana Stevens April 2, 2009
  
• Driving Mr. Crazy A great movie about a Senegalese cab driver and a suicidal old man.
  Dana Stevens March 26, 2009
  
• Monsters vs. Aliens Has Dreamworks finally made its Pixar movie?
  Jessica Winter March 26, 2009
  
• I Love You, Man Very likable, quietly subversive.
  Dana Stevens March 20, 2009
  
• Pretty Confusing Julia Roberts and Clive Owen in the stylish but muddled Duplicity.
  Dana Stevens March 19, 2009
  
• Z When "political" movies were both political and hip.
  Dana Stevens March 13, 2009
  
• Sunshine Cleaning Even though you've seen this movie already, you should see it again.
  Dana Stevens March 12, 2009
  
• Phoebe in Wonderland Elle Fanning carries this likable film on her 10-year-old shoulders.
  Dana Stevens March 6, 2009
  
• Swatchmen Watchmen is colorful and cheap.
  Dana Stevens March 5, 2009
  
• Deport This Movie The immigration thriller Crossing Over.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 26, 2009
  
• The Phoenix Rises Joaquin Phoenix is great in Two Lovers, so perhaps his rap career is a prank.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 13, 2009
  
• Confessions of a Shopaholic A comedy that recalls the happy time when America wasn't a financial ruin.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 12, 2009
  
• Button Eyes Coraline will freak out your kids in both good and bad ways.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 5, 2009
  
• Help, My Face Is Frozen! Renée Zellweger in the romantic comedy New in Town.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 29, 2009
  
• I Heart 3-D My Bloody Valentine and the history of horror in three dimensions.
  Daniel Engber Jan. 16, 2009
  
• Paul Blart: Mall Cop Just a fat guy and an empty mall.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 16, 2009
  
• Notorious Biggie on the big screen.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 15, 2009