Movie horror comes in many forms: scary sex scenes, frightening monsters and mental terrors. But some of the most haunting horror stories aren't merely terrifying, they're achingly sad. ...

A snappy script and superior voice work make this animated action-comedy much more fun than expected. Even though the premise and visual style are similar to both The Incredibles and the more-recent Despicable Me, this film has an attitude all its own. ...

For Colored Girls Movie Review,Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf made a big splash when it debuted on Broadway back in the Seventies. The emotionally-draining “choreopoem” was essentially a series of soul-baring monologues plumbing the depths of the African-American female psyche on sensitive subjects ranging from sexuality to spirituality. ...

Eichmann Movie Review,Kicking off a triple bill from Regent Releasing is "The Magician," in which a hit man improbably allows himself to be filmed in action. That's the cream of the jest in writer-director-star Scott Ryan's darkly comic faux documentary, a gritty, shot-off-the cuff gem and a top prize winner in its native Australia. ...

Made in Dagenham Movie Review,1968 was, famously, a year of turmoil and attempted revolution: there were The Paris May Riots, huge anti-Vietnam War demos, amongst others. This film concerns itself with a less spectacular and hip rebellion, in which female machinists at the Ford car plant in Dagenham, East London, went on strike. ...

Heartless Movie Review,Jamie Morgan (Jim Sturgess, "21," "Fifty Dead Men Walking") skulks around the East End of London taking photographs and trying to hide the heart-shaped birthmark on his face from passers by. ...

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Movie Review,Alex Gibney is a virtual one-man industry turning out one documentary after another on the abuses of American capitalism, from its imperialist wars abroad (Taxi to the Dark Side) to corruption and white-collar crime at home (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room). ...

Fair Game Movie Review,A potentially riveting story gets a dramatically weak, mildly engaging treatment in Doug Liman’s political melodrama, Fair Game, the story of real-life undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame, whose career is destroyed and her marriage strained to its limits by a White House press leak. ...

Four lions Movie Review,Would you laugh at a film depicting a man with explosives strapped to his body? No, probably not. But what if he were dressed in costume like he’s come fresh from the set of Sesame Street? It’s hard not to in Four Lions, an audacious satire about the inner trials of a suicidal jihadist quintet. ...

127 Hours Movie Review,Like many Danny Boyle movies, including 28 Days Later, Millions and Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours is an against-all-odds survival saga. Its ostensible subject is Aron Ralston, the outdoorsman trapped in a Utah canyon by a falling boulder that pinned his right hand and forearm to the red rock. ...

Shake Hands with the Devil Movie Review,As the fourth film to deal with the Rwandan genocide in as many years - following previous Festival flicks Hotel Rwanda, Shooting Dogs, and A Sunday in Kigali - Shake Hands with the Devil suffers from a vibe of familiarity that ultimately prevents it from making any kind of a real impact. ...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Movie Review,Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy" and its Swedish cinematic adaptations present a rigged game: Their critique of societal sexism is made via a convoluted, one-dimensional thriller narrative in which men are either heroic crusaders or dastardly misogynists, with the latter all secretly allied in maintaining an omnipresent anti-female agenda. ...

Kalamity Movie Review,Film noir and crime fiction are studded with examples of men whose psychosis is cloaked in misogyny, most notably the plainspoken deputy sheriff in Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me, a novel that goes deep into sadomasochism, abuse, and murder. Even the notion of the femme fatale arises from male suspicion—or outright hostility—about the opposite sex. ...

Welcome to the Rileys Movie Review,to its credit, doesn't conform to narrative expectations. It's a drama, but a drama on the edge of utter destruction. Kristen Stewart is Allison ... or Mallory, depending on the scene (trust me, this makes sense). She's an exotic dancer in New Orleans, she meets James Gandolfini (who is on a business trip), and we're off from there. ...