Oscar counts to 10

  COUPLES RETREAT (2009). For all its visual splendor, Couples Retreat never feels as liberating as its locale. Working from a script by Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau and Dana Fo...

WARNER ARCHIVES (1941-1981). Selected titles from the recent batch of films available only through the Warner Archives label include vehicles featuring Marlene Dietrich, Chevy Chas...

THE BOYS ARE BACK (2009). A low-key melodrama based on Simon Carr's memoir, The Boys Are Back features a star turn by Clive Owen that's not quite enough to compensate for e...

CHE (2008). Upon its original theatrical release, director Steven Soderbergh's epic look at revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara was screened in some cities as two sep...

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS (2009). Although it's based on a children's book (by Judi and Ron Barrett), this animated charmer is one of those equal-opportunity exerci...

THE HANGOVER (2009). One of this past summer's biggest hits proved to be this headache-inducing effort in which soon-to-be-married Doug (Justin Bartha) heads to Las Vegas to en...

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009). Between its freewheeling exploits and its liberties with historical veracity, Quentin Tarantino's World War II excursion is a celebration of film a...

A CHRISTMAS TALE (2008). If the Hollywood hit Four Christmases (reviewed below) takes family dysfunction to its comic extremes, writer-director Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas...