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Revolver
added the new U.S. trailer for Guy Ritchie’s latest crime thriller

Ratatouille
It’s scary enough to see a rat running around a restaurant kitchen, but when he prepares the food too, it could be disastrous–that is if it wasn’t a cartoon. Pixar’s latest features French cuisine creatively cooked by a talented rat and the wannabe chef who discovers him. [Rated G]

7% Deck the Halls
A Christmas comedy with Matthew Broderick and Danny De Vito has to have some laughs, right? Unfortunately that’s not the case. As far as movies about bickering neighbors during the Christmas holiday go, the predictable Deck the Halls is pretty mediocre, with hardy anything to cheer about. It doesn’t help that both Broderick’s and De Vito’s characters are unsympathetic and the ‘humor’ is on the crude side for a PG movie. You won’t see this one on any classic holiday movies list.

Forbidden Hollywood Volume 2 in March - Artwork added
News: Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Volume 2 on 4th March 2008. Following the success of last year’s Volume 1, this new 3-disc collection will contain five pre-code sizzlers, with some of Hol…

48% Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?
Despite some poignant observations on modern marriages, Why Did I Get Married? is too preachy and melodramatic.

36% Sleuth
Sleuth is so obvious and coarse, rather than suspenseful and action-packed, that it does nothing to improve on the original version

Around the World Roundup
At the foreign box office, Ratatouille made it five weekends in a row on top…
by Conor Bresnan

Critical Consensus: Fred Claus Fails to Spread Cheer; Lions Is Tame, P2 is Average Genre Fare
This week at the movies, we’ve got Santa’s not-so-little helper (Fred Claus, starring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti), geopolitics (Lions for Lambs, starring Robert Redford, Tom Cruise, and Meryl Streep), and one scary parking garage (P2, starring Wes Bentley). What do the critics have to say?

Bay Prepares to Fake Out Transformers Fanboys
Michael Bay went through the wringer with the fanboys on Transformers. He addressed every concern — early designs, scripts, remaining faithful to the source material — and delivered a movie that won over most audiences, grossing nearly $320 million in America alone. But with Transformers 2 in development, Bay isn’t…

Robert Redford Insists On Asking Questions in Lions For Lambs
With documentaries on the war in Iraq satisfying a need for “on the spot” journalism, Hollywood’s recent stabs at war movies have been long on crowd pleasing and short on message. Actor/director Robert Redford’s war drama Lions for Lambs puts its money where its mouth is. Maybe that’s why people…