The latest and least of the “Saw” films is just plain boring and even a little tame — albeit by the standards of a genre that helped bring the phrase “torture porn” into the lexicon.
The heroes of “The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror” are so catty, obnoxious and generally unpleasant, you can’t wait for them to start getting hacked to bits.
“Fly Me to the Moon” bills itself as the first animated feature created expressly for 3-D. Too bad it wasn’t created expressly for, you know, pleasure or art.
“Passing Poston” recollects one of the most shameful episodes in United States history: the forced internment of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II.
“Harold” is the type of one-note dead zone ideally suited for a bathroom break while sitting home on a Saturday night, alone and semidrunk, in front of the television.
“We Are Together” is another feel-good documentary about a feel-bad topic: the bright-eyed, golden-voiced children of Agape, an orphanage in South Africa.
This uncommonly elegant and evocative portrait of Louise Bourgeois reveals much about the haunting and haunted master while leaving intact the thing you cannot explain.
Iraq documentary fatigue gets a rock-hard slap in the face with “Heavy Metal in Baghdad,” an intrepid, unlikely and altogether splendid feat of D.I.Y. reportage.
“Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead” is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be.
“Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead” is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be.