Reviews of the latest films.

If you'd like to sort this department listing by headline, author or date, please use the Slate search.

• Top 10 Movies of 2008 May I have the envelope please ...
  Dana Stevens Dec. 28, 2008
  
• Depressed Suburban Nazi Backward-Agers Valkyrie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Revolutionary Road reviewed.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 23, 2008
  
• Head of The Class An unassuming French movie that will nail you to your seat.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 19, 2008
  
• Slow & Slower Jim Carrey looks tired in Yes Man.
  Josh Levin Dec. 18, 2008
  
• Unexpected Body Slam The Wrestler is terrific.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 17, 2008
  
• Nun Better Meryl Streep in Doubt, plus Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 12, 2008
  
• Must Love Nazis Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet find doomed romance in The Reader.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 11, 2008
  
• Cadillac Records Great music, great acting, and a new way to look at biopics.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 5, 2008
  
• Battle of the Foreheads Frost/Nixon reviewed.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 4, 2008
  
• Fresh Milk Gus Van Sant's biopic of the gay activist is vibrantly alive.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 26, 2008
  
• Throw Another Cliché on the Barbie Baz Luhrmann's Australia.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 25, 2008
  
• Twilight Cute vegetarian vampires in the Pacific Northwest.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 20, 2008
  
• 000 In Quantum of Solace, James Bond is a total zero.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 14, 2008
  
• Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle's irresistible hokum.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 13, 2008
  
• Role Models Paul Rudd + cult sketch director = funny movie.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 6, 2008
  
• Jean-Claude Van Damme Made Me Cry In JCVD, the action star delivers a kick-ass monologue.
  Grady Hendrix Nov. 6, 2008
  
• Good Grief Why I love the melancholy Peanuts holiday specials.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 31, 2008
  
• Yuck Zack and Miri Make a Porno will make you never want to have sex again.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 30, 2008
  
• Everyone Sucks Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 24, 2008
  
• The Changeling Angelina Jolie's Oscar attempt.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 23, 2008
  
• The Secret Life of Bees Just sweet enough.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 17, 2008
  
• Lame-Duck Soup Oliver Stone's cinematic portrait of George W. Bush.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 16, 2008
  
• Glossy Torture Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Body of Lies.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 10, 2008
  
• Happy Happy Happy Mike Leigh's new movie actually needed more sadness and woe.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 9, 2008
  
• Bark Bark The clumsy racial attitudes of Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
  Josh Levin Oct. 3, 2008
  
• All Aboard the Crazy Train Anne Hathaway in Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 3, 2008
  
• Shyness Is Nice Michael Cera in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 2, 2008
  
• Mr. Wedge Issue A new documentary about Lee Atwater.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 26, 2008
  
• Bird-Brained Shia LaBeouf in Eagle Eye.
  Josh Levin Sept. 26, 2008
  
• Choke Gag.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 25, 2008
  
• Smooth Moves Why you should watch Max Ophuls this weekend.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 19, 2008
  
• Dead People Are Irritating The new Ricky Gervais comedy, Ghost Town.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 18, 2008
  
• Towelhead It's no fun being a sexually curious, biracial teenager in Houston.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 12, 2008
  
• Burn After Reading But pause before seeing the new Coen brothers movie.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 11, 2008
  
• How's Your Edamame, Tex? Takashi Miike puts the Western through the cultural blender.
  Grady Hendrix Aug. 28, 2008
  
• Save Faris When will someone give Anna Faris the role she deserves?
  Dana Stevens Aug. 21, 2008
  
• Eminently Quaffable Bottle Shock is a sweet little wine movie.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 7, 2008
  
• There's Something About Robert Downey Jr. Watch him play a white guy playing a black guy in Tropic Thunder.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 7, 2008
  
• Bud Movie Pineapple Express has its moments, but it's kind of harsh.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 6, 2008
  
• Walking on Air Go see Man on Wire.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 1, 2008
  
• Dances With Roves Kevin Costner in the political "satire" Swing Vote.
  Dana Stevens July 31, 2008
  
• Baghead An indie horror film that kind of resembles early John Sayles.
  Dana Stevens July 25, 2008
  
• Close Encounters of the Woo-Woo Kind Mulder and Scully reunite in The X-Files: I Want To Believe.
  Dana Stevens July 24, 2008
  
• No Joke The Dark Knight, reviewed.
  Dana Stevens July 17, 2008
  
• Hot Mamma! Go see the defiantly dorky ABBA musical.
  Dana Stevens July 17, 2008
  
• Houdini in Love The charming tricks of Death Defying Acts.
  Dana Stevens July 11, 2008
  
• You're Going to Hellboy Guillermo del Toro's beastly good imagination.
  Dana Stevens July 10, 2008
  
• Best Year Ever The Wackness is a loving ode to 1994.
  Dana Stevens July 3, 2008
  
• Superbad Hancock's failed superhero satire.
  Dana Stevens July 2, 2008
  
• The Dominatrix Angelina Jolie crushes James McAvoy like a bug in Wanted.
  Dana Stevens June 27, 2008
  
• Robot Wisdom Wall-E reviewed.
  Dana Stevens June 26, 2008
  
• Muppet Troy! And other inspired responses to our movie-remake contest.
  Dana Stevens June 20, 2008
  
• No Love for The Love Guru Wow, what a bad movie.
  Dana Stevens June 19, 2008
  
• The Happening and The Incredible Hulk Two summer blockbusters reviewed and a reader contest.
  Dana Stevens June 13, 2008
  
• March of the Herzog The filmmaker goes to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World.
  Dana Stevens June 11, 2008
  
• This Mongolian Life An old-fashioned epic about Genghis Khan.
  Dana Stevens June 6, 2008
  
• Sex and the City A guilty pleasure that's truly guilty.
  Dana Stevens May 29, 2008
  
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull What would a 32nd-century scholar make of Harrison Ford?
  Dana Stevens May 22, 2008
  
• Hip Scandinavian Gloom Joachim Trier's Reprise is melancholy but exuberant.
  Dana Stevens May 16, 2008
  
• Prince Caspian The Narnia series gets bleaker.
  Dana Stevens May 15, 2008
  
• Go, Speed Racer, Go Away! The Wachowski brothers' high-tech failure.
  Dana Stevens May 9, 2008
  
• Manhattan Without Car Alarms Tim Robbins plays a sound-pollution vigilante in Noise.
  Dana Stevens May 8, 2008
  
• Son of Rambow Like Billy Elliot, but schlockier.
  Dana Stevens May 2, 2008
  
• Iron Man What if Oscar Wilde were a superhero?
  Dana Stevens May 1, 2008
  
• Standard Operating Procedure Errol Morris' documentary about the Abu Ghraib torture photographs.
  Dana Stevens April 25, 2008
  
• High Treason Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay reviewed.
  Dana Stevens April 25, 2008
  
• Womb Service Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in the surrogate-mother comedy Baby Mama.
  Dana Stevens April 24, 2008
  
• Spurlock Holmes The stunt documentarian goes in search of Osama Bin Laden.
  Dana Stevens April 18, 2008
  
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall The school of Apatow reaches a new level of emotional nakedness.
  Dana Stevens April 17, 2008
  
• I See Smart People Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Quaid, Ellen Page, and Thomas Haden Church in a shambolic comedy.
  Dana Stevens April 11, 2008
  
• Whoa Keanu Reeves as a Dirty Harry-style cop in Street Kings.
  Dana Stevens April 10, 2008
  
• Wong Kar Whatever My Blueberry Nights is beautiful, confusing.
  Dana Stevens April 4, 2008
  
• Illegal Use of Hands George Clooney's pro-football comedy Leatherheads.
  Dana Stevens April 3, 2008
  
• Drillbit Taylor Owen Wilson, Judd Apatow, and Seth Rogen team up for some nonfun.
  Dana Stevens March 20, 2008
  
• Truly, Madly, Sadly Anthony Minghella's best movie was his first one.
  Dana Stevens March 19, 2008
  
• Michael Haneke's Funny Games Feel like being tortured by a movie?
  Dana Stevens March 13, 2008
  
• Married Life A tony, well-upholstered drama that manages to charm.
  Dana Stevens March 7, 2008
  
• Me Want Good Caveman Movie Not this 10,000 B.C. crap.
  Dana Stevens March 6, 2008
  
• All the King's Women The Other Boleyn Girl is a costume drama with lots of brocade and sadly little booty.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 28, 2008
  
• Low Fidelity Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 22, 2008
  
• Diary of the Dead George Romero's bleakest zombie movie yet.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 15, 2008
  
• Super Frat Boy Hayden Christensen in Jumper.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 14, 2008
  
• Strangers in Strange Lands In Bruges and The Band's Visit reviewed.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 8, 2008
  
• Hating Juno How the backlash started.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 8, 2008
  
• The Show Won't Go On There's something profoundly destabilizing about the concept of a year without an Oscar ceremony.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 31, 2008
  
• Meet the Charlatans Another terrible spoof movie from the nongeniuses who brought you Date Movie and Epic Movie.
  Josh Levin Jan. 30, 2008
  
• Rambo He just wants to hand-forge iron and be left alone, but then a blond missionary shows up.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 24, 2008
  
• Cassandra's Dream The new Woody Allen is not unredeemably bad.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 18, 2008
  
• When Monsters Attack Pretty People J.J. Abrams destroys New York in Cloverfield.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 17, 2008
  
• Push! Ricki Lake's valentine to the home-birth movement.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 11, 2008