Reviews of the latest films.

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• The Top 10 Movies of 2006 A family road trip; a world without babies; and, yes, Babel.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 29, 2006
  
• Sugar and Spice The schlocky appeal of Dreamgirls.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 22, 2006
  
• The Movie of the Millennium Alfonso Cuarón's fantastic Children of Men.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 21, 2006
  
• In Too Deep A journey into David Lynch's Inland Empire.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 15, 2006
  
• Flavorless Ham A faithful, but bland, Charlotte's Web.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 14, 2006
  
• Trading Spaces Home-swapping in Holiday. Plus, Leo DiCaprio's turn in Blood Diamond.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 8, 2006
  
• A Pre-History of Violence Mel Gibson's bloody, bewildering Apocalypto.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 7, 2006
  
• Bored in a Manger The unceasing drabness of The Nativity Story.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 1, 2006
  
• Infinity and Beyond Darren Aronofsky goes to the stars.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 30, 2006
  
• Hard to Swallow Fast Food Nation and Candy.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 17, 2006
  
• Daniel Craig The man who would be Bond.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 17, 2006
  
• Arrested Development A lame take on photographer Diane Arbus.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 10, 2006
  
• Life and Art Will Ferrell's Stranger Than Fiction.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 9, 2006
  
• Haunting Beauty The richness of Almodóvar's Volver.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 3, 2006
  
• America Undercover Sacha Baron Cohen's disturbing, ingenious Borat.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 2, 2006
  
• Death and the Documentary Death of a President and The Bridge.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 27, 2006
  
• Coming Undone Four stories of woe in Babel.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 27, 2006
  
• Old Tricks The wizardry of The Prestige; plus, Flags of Our Fathers and Running With Scissors.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 20, 2006
  
• Queen Bees Sofia Coppola and Marie Antoinette have a lot in common.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 19, 2006
  
• Inappropriate Touching A devastating documentary about a pedophile priest.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 12, 2006
  
• The Beautiful and the Damned Todd Field's Little Children.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 6, 2006
  
• Of Moles and Men Martin Scorsese's stylish The Departed.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 5, 2006
  
• The Movie Hollywood Doesn't Want You To See Idiocracy, the feel-bad comedy of the year.
  Reihan Salam Sept. 29, 2006
  
• Meaner Streets Back to the old neighborhood in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 28, 2006
  
• King and Queen Two royal portraits: The Queen and The Last King of Scotland.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 27, 2006
  
• Gone South A risible new All the King's Men.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 22, 2006
  
• Dreamland Michel Gondry's lovely The Science of Sleep.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 21, 2006
  
• Permission To Speak Freely The Ground Truth is a vital debriefing about Iraq.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 15, 2006
  
• Murder Most Foul Brian De Palma's dreadful Black Dahlia.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 14, 2006
  
• The Joy of Jaa The Thai martial artist returns in The Protector.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 8, 2006
  
• Sob Stories The quiet beauty of Man Push Cart and Le Petit Lieutenant.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 7, 2006
  
• Dog Meets World The new Lassie is puppy heaven.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 1, 2006
  
• Thrust in Us The idiocy of the movie ratings board.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 31, 2006
  
• Apes at a Rave? The winners of our catchy movie-title contest.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 25, 2006
  
• Boogie Down South OutKast's musical Idlewild.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 24, 2006
  
• In the Event of a Water Moccasin ... Snakes on a Plane is a schlocky delight. Plus, a reader contest.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 18, 2006
  
• Grand Illusionist Edward Norton pulls a movie out of his hat.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 17, 2006
  
• Teacher Was an Addict Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 11, 2006
  
• Stone Cold Oliver Stone's World Trade Center is brutally effective. But what is he after?
  Dana Stevens Aug. 8, 2006
  
• Fifteen Candles Quinceañera is a swell party.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 4, 2006
  
• Kentucky-Fried Movie Will Ferrell meets NASCAR in Talladega Nights.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 3, 2006
  
• Mojito Coast Surrendering to the charms of Miami Vice.
  Dana Stevens July 27, 2006
  
• Little Miss Can't Be Wrong Finally, a summer movie worth watching.
  Dana Stevens July 25, 2006
  
• Cape Fear Superheroes and male anxiety in My Super Ex-Girlfriend.
  Dana Stevens July 21, 2006
  
• The Deep End A mermaid, a pool, and one seriously nutty director: Lady in the Water.
  Dana Stevens July 20, 2006
  
• The Blur On the enlightened fuzziness of Keanu Reeves.
  Dana Stevens July 14, 2006
  
• Get Off My Couch Owen Wilson in You, Me and Dupree.
  Dana Stevens July 13, 2006
  
• Yo-Ho-Hum The dreary second chapter of Pirates of the Caribbean.
  Dana Stevens July 6, 2006
  
• Don't We Look Fabulous? The Devil Wears Prada is good, clean fun. 
  Dana Stevens June 30, 2006
  
• Happy Gilmore Grows Up Fart jokes and pondering mortality in Adam Sandler's Click.
  Dana Stevens June 23, 2006
  
• Beneath the Hoods The brutality of The Road to Guantánamo.
  Dana Stevens June 22, 2006
  
• Down for the Count Jack Black submits to Nacho Libre.
  Dana Stevens June 15, 2006
  
• Sunday Drive The pleasure of Pixar's Cars.
  Michael Agger June 9, 2006
  
• Where All the Actors Are Above Average Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.
  Michael Agger June 8, 2006
  
• After the Party The hangover of Olivier Assayas' Clean.
  John DeFore June 5, 2006
  
• Let's Just Be Friends The awkward scenes of The Break-Up.
  Michael Agger June 2, 2006
  
• Death to X-Men A sequel only a mutant could love.
  Michael Agger May 25, 2006
  
• Worse Than the Book A fruitless search for fun in The Da Vinci Code.
  Dana Stevens May 18, 2006
  
• School of Noir The deadpan cool of Rian Johnson's Brick.
  Troy Patterson May 12, 2006
  
• Painter Haters Misanthropy unbound in Art School Confidential.
  Josh Levin May 11, 2006
  
• Mission: Impossible III A movie that will blow your mind.
  Michael Agger May 4, 2006
  
• Little Ghost on the Prairie An American Haunting is definitely not based on a true story.
  Grady Hendrix May 4, 2006
  
• How I Spent My Miserable Vacation Robin Williams in his latest disaster, RV.
  Grady Hendrix April 28, 2006
  
• United We Fall What's wrong with the Flight 93 movie.
  Dana Stevens April 27, 2006
  
• American Dreamz Hollywood takes another shot at President Bush.
  Michael Agger April 21, 2006
  
• Plotters The Sentinel is a White House thriller without a clue.
  Grady Hendrix April 21, 2006
  
• Confessions of a Pinup Girl Mary Harron's The Notorious Bettie Page.
  Troy Patterson April 14, 2006
  
• And Don't Call Me Funny! David Zucker's Scary Movie 4 is all spoofed out.
  Ben Wasserstein April 13, 2006
  
• Slugfest Slither, a delightfully flimsy horror film.
  Josh Levin March 30, 2006
  
• Dave Chappelle's Problem He can't escape white people.
  Willing Davidson March 30, 2006
  
• The Big Score Spike Lee and Denzel Washington reunite in Inside Man.
  Grady Hendrix March 23, 2006
  
• A Dog-Eat-Dog Continent Canines stranded in Antarctica in Disney's Eight Below.
  Emily Yoffe Feb. 23, 2006
  
• From Russia With Blood The horrors of Night Watch.
  Stephen Metcalf Feb. 17, 2006
  
• The Death of Inspector Clouseau Steve Martin's uninspired Pink Panther.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 10, 2006
  
• Hackers and Hacks Firewall is a high-tech catastrophe.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 9, 2006
  
• Horse Feathers Tommy Lee Jones' half-baked western, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
  Stephen Metcalf Feb. 9, 2006
  
• The Neverending Story Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 3, 2006
  
• The French Lesson Caché is the latest cinematic lecture from Michael Haneke.
  Stephen Metcalf Feb. 2, 2006
  
• Writer's Block Two competing novelists, holed up together, in The Tenants.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 2, 2006
  
• Guys and Dolls Steven Soderbergh's Bubble is strictly amateur-hour.
  Stephen Metcalf Jan. 27, 2006
  
• Back on the Plantation Lars von Trier's Manderlay.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 27, 2006
  
• The Undead Kate Beckinsale, back as a vampire, in Underworld: Evolution.
  Stephen Metcalf Jan. 26, 2006
  
• Malick in Wonderland The New World is another chin-scratching poem.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 20, 2006
  
• Being Albert Brooks The no-laughs approach of Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.
  Stephen Metcalf Jan. 19, 2006
  
• Brooklyn Confidential Mutual Appreciation, a hipster comedy of manners.
  Nathan Lee Jan. 6, 2006
  
• London Calling In Match Point, Woody Allen finally leaves Manhattan.
  Stephen Metcalf Jan. 3, 2006