July 29, 2008
Drama leaves depth behind in plot turns

July 22, 2008
The Dark Knight isn’t just another pointless superhero movie. The film is dark, intense and crammed with talented actors, non-stop action, humor and even moving social commentary.

July 1, 2008
Exciting but ordinary film fails to be anything more than a solid, generic action film

June 25, 2008
After watching Get Smart — a jumbled, silly spy spoof — you’ll probably feel that you’ve left the theater with a few less brain cells.

August 15, 2007
In order to earn the love of Victoria (Sienna Miller), young shop boy Tristran (Charlie Cox) declares that he will cross the magical wall of their 19th-century English town and bring back a shooting star.

August 8, 2007
Jason Bourne returns to the big screen with a stream of powerful, gripping, thoroughly engrossing bangs in Universal Pictures' Bourne Ultimatum, released Aug.

July 25, 2007
Ending with audience applause fit for a Broadway play, Hairspray, released July 20, successfully brought the classic musical to the movies. It's Baltimore, it's the '60s and it's time for change. Hairspray starts with a hopeful solo from aspiring dancer Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky) as she walks toward school and stardom.

July 11, 2007
Transformers develops in a fragmented style, switching between two separate plot lines: Sam's life and emerging friendship with the Autobots and the military's encounters with the evil Decepticons. At first the movie seems unbalanced, with separate scenes seemingly unconnected to each other, each with heavily contrasting tones.

June 27, 2007
Evan Baxter, side character in the 2003 film Bruce Almighty, has his own hilarious touch with God in Universal Picture's Evan Almighty, released June 22. Struggling to stay afloat in the fast-paced, swindling world of Congress, Evan (Steve Carell) prays to be able to fulfill his campaign slogan and "change the world."

June 20, 2007
If the bright pink of all the pre-teen girls crammed into the theater doesn't scare away viewers, then the dull characters and unrealistic plot of the new Warner Brothers film Nancy Drew will make them wish they had stayed home — or at least that the villains had succeeded in running over the infuriatingly proper Nancy Drew.

January 25, 2007
The Mandrake, a play swarming with sex, potions and clever verse, opened Jan. 19 at Theater Schmeater on Capitol Hill.

January 18, 2007
Eyes closed, with the music of Cappella Romana filling a Greek-columned church with an orchestra of sound, it's easy to imagine you are in medieval times.