Reviews of the latest films.

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• The Top 10 Movies of 2007 A man-eating river beast, a rat who cooks, and the Cannes-winning film you just might get to see after all.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 28, 2007
  
• My So-Called Iranian Life Marjane Satrapi's brilliant Persepolis.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 24, 2007
  
• There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson's deranged masterpiece.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 24, 2007
  
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Revenge is a dish best served in short-crust pastry.
  June Thomas Dec. 21, 2007
  
• Charlie Wilson's War Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts save Afghanistan from the Russkies.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 20, 2007
  
• Youth Without Youth I kind of love Francis Ford Coppola's shaggy, meandering movie.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 14, 2007
  
• I Am Legend Will Smith roams a post-apocalyptic New York City.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 13, 2007
  
• The Golden Compass Philip Pullman's subversive fantasy gets put through the Hollywood blandification machine.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 6, 2007
  
• Superpregnant How Juno is Knocked Up from the girl's point of view.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 5, 2007
  
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly A stroke victim's memoir gets a delicate, unsentimental adaptation.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 30, 2007
  
• Princess MasterCard There's something rotten about Enchanted.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 29, 2007
  
• Is It Me, Babe? Todd Haynes' fractured portrait of Bob Dylan.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 20, 2007
  
• Beowulf A review in verse.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 16, 2007
  
• Margot at the Wedding Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh in Noah Baumbach's latest neurotic talkfest.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 15, 2007
  
• Lions for Lambs Cruise-Redford-Streep in an earnest post-9/11 melodrama.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 9, 2007
  
• No Country for Old Men Why the new Coen brothers' masterpiece disappoints.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 8, 2007
  
• Bee Movie Everything about this Jerry Seinfeld creation needed more thought.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 2, 2007
  
• American Gangster A star-studded epic that doesn't bring the heat.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 1, 2007
  
• Evil Philip Seymour Hoffman And other joys of Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 25, 2007
  
• Reservation Road If a movie runs over a kid, it has to earn the right to do so.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 19, 2007
  
• Extrajudicially Blonde Reese Witherspoon in Rendition.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 18, 2007
  
• She's the Silent Type Ryan Gosling falls in love with a sex toy in Lars and the Real Girl.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 12, 2007
  
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age Just like a 16th-century episode of The Hills.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 11, 2007
  
• Movie Love Rare screenings of Béla Tarr and this year's Cannes-winner from Romania.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 5, 2007
  
• Michael Clayton George Clooney anchors a solid legal thriller.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 4, 2007
  
• Lust, Caution Ang Lee's brilliant sexual politics.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 28, 2007
  
• Twee Time Wes Anderson goes to India in The Darjeeling Limited.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 27, 2007
  
• Into the Wild A borderline unforgivable decision mars a worthy movie.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 21, 2007
  
• You Can Give a Movie a Long Title but That Doesn't Mean It's Good The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford reviewed.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 20, 2007
  
• In the Valley of Elah Paul Haggis' shaggy but powerful Iraq war drama.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 14, 2007
  
• Eastern Promises The metaphysics of David Cronenberg's violence.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 13, 2007
  
• Lactating Hookers And other low points of Shoot 'Em Up.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 7, 2007
  
• Hoagie Shack The gentle kinkiness of I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With. 
  Dana Stevens Sept. 6, 2007
  
• Down and Out in Williamsburg Ethan Hawke and Justin Theroux serve up angsty love in The Hottest State and Dedication.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 24, 2007
  
• The Nanny Diaries Not worth hiring a babysitter for.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 23, 2007
  
• Invasion of the Iraq War Metaphors Nicole Kidman's sci-fi movie gets lost in a quagmire.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 17, 2007
  
• Superbad  See it for Michael Cera.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 16, 2007
  
• 2 Days in Paris Julie Delpy's directorial debut is Before Sunset by way of Annie Hall. And that's OK.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 9, 2007
  
• Bourne Again Paul Greengrass knows how to direct an action movie.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 2, 2007
  
• Enter the Donut The Simpsons Movie reviewed.
  Dana Stevens July 27, 2007
  
• Iron-Hearted Chef Abigail Breslin steals No Reservations from Catherine Zeta-Boring.
  Dana Stevens July 26, 2007
  
• Sunspotting Danny Boyle's Sunshine just misses sci-fi greatness.
  Dana Stevens July 20, 2007
  
• Not a Drag John Travolta in Hairspray.
  Dana Stevens July 19, 2007
  
• Emotional Rescue Go see the new Warner Herzog movie.
  Dana Stevens July 13, 2007
  
• The Sorcerer's Stones Harry Potter hits puberty.
  Dana Stevens July 10, 2007
  
• Et Tu, Babycakes The results of Slate's action-movie one-liner contest.
  Dana Stevens July 6, 2007
  
• Long, Incoherent, and Kind of Fun The accidental charm of Michael Bay's Transformers.
  Dana Stevens July 2, 2007
  
• Sick Joke Michael Moore gathers our rage at America's health-care system.
  Dana Stevens June 29, 2007
  
• Evan Almighty A movie that only an 8-year-old Christian environmentalist could love.
  Dana Stevens June 22, 2007
  
• A (Mostly) Mighty Heart The Mariane Pearl movie can't escape the shadow of Angelina Jolie.
  Dana Stevens June 21, 2007
  
• Able Was I Ere I Saw Alba The pneumatic star can't save Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
  Dana Stevens June 15, 2007
  
• Ocean's 13  The movie as luxury brand.
  Dana Stevens June 8, 2007
  
• Dancing in the Dark Crazy Love documents an unusual courtship.
  Dana Stevens June 1, 2007
  
• Unplanned Parenthood What Knocked Up gets wrong about women.
  Dana Stevens May 31, 2007
  
• Bug and Paprika Two new movies about mind control.
  Dana Stevens May 25, 2007
  
• Booty Nights The jolly swashbucklers of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
  Dana Stevens May 24, 2007
  
• Mocha Zombies 28 Weeks Later reveals the horror of too much Starbucks.
  Grady Hendrix May 10, 2007
  
• The Bittersweet Hereafter Adrienne Shelly's Waitress.
  Dana Stevens May 4, 2007
  
• Killer Licorice The new Spider-Man has one too many villains.
  Dana Stevens May 3, 2007
  
• Hot Fuzz Buzz Imagine an Agatha Christie novel directed by Michael Bay.
  Dana Stevens April 27, 2007
  
• When a Horse Isn't Just a Horse Zoo's lyrical reflection on bestiality.
  Dana Stevens April 24, 2007
  
• Hello, Mr. Gosling A mainstream star is born in Fracture.
  Dana Stevens April 19, 2007
  
• Free-Range Chick Molly Shannon in Mike White's Year of the Dog.
  Dana Stevens April 13, 2007
  
• Like Vomit But in a good way: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie.
  Dana Stevens April 12, 2007
  
• Tube Boobs A brilliant sendup of the television industry.
  Dana Stevens April 6, 2007
  
• Bloody Good Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse.
  Dana Stevens April 6, 2007
  
• Black Sheep A legendary film from 1977 gets its due.
  Dana Stevens March 30, 2007
  
• Against Sequins Will Ferrell in the ice-skating comedy Blades of Glory.
  Dana Stevens March 29, 2007
  
• Top Gun The political revenge fantasies of Shooter.
  Dana Stevens March 23, 2007
  
• Chris Rock's Buppie Angst I Think I Love My Wife should have been funnier.
  Dana Stevens March 16, 2007
  
• Beastly Good The Host is a flawless monster movie.
  Dana Stevens March 15, 2007
  
• Curried Rice Krispies A cross-cultural coming-of-age in The Namesake.
  Dana Stevens March 9, 2007
  
• A Movie Only a Spartan Could Love The battle epic 300.
  Dana Stevens March 9, 2007
  
• No Guts, No Gory David Fincher's Zodiac is surprisingly cerebral.
  Dana Stevens March 2, 2007
  
• It's Hard Out There for a Ho The puzzling sexual games of Black Snake Moan. 
  Dana Stevens March 1, 2007
  
• Battlefield Earth Days of Glory and Grbavica explore war and its aftermath.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 16, 2007
  
• That's the Look of Love Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant in Music and Lyrics.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 14, 2007
  
• Eurotrash Schoolboy The young Lecter in Hannibal Rising.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 9, 2007
  
• Desperate Bureaucrats The Lives of Others is the best surveillance movie since The Conversation.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 8, 2007
  
• Diane Freakin' Keaton Why can't she find better roles?
  Dana Stevens Feb. 2, 2007
  
• Factory Reject A tepid biopic of Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 2, 2007
  
• Men With Guns The absurdly macho pyrotechnics of Smokin' Aces.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 25, 2007
  
• The State of the Oscar Forget the Dreamgirls snub, what about Volver?
  Dana Stevens Jan. 23, 2007
  
• Further Notes on a Scandal The danger of unreliable narrators.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 19, 2007
  
• It's a Hard-Knock Life The queasy morality of Russian adoption in The Italian.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 19, 2007
  
• Thai Feud Imagine a Western directed by Todd Haynes and Sam Peckinpah.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 12, 2007