A Film Year Full of Escapism, Flat in Attendance
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Despite a modest increase in 2007 box office receipts, moviedom is trudging into January with a droop in its shoulders.
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The actors do well, but Shaad Ali's film is nothing more than a packaging.
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Steven Soderbergh's unabashedly trivial sequel may be slim pickings, but when it works, it's a blast.
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Without Oscar hopes, a lot of movies would never get made.
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Apparently movie fans are ready for some football...and little   else.
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"A Good Year," an innocuous, feel-good movie that reunites Russell Crowe with the director Ridley Scott, is a three-P movie: pleasant, pretty and predictable. One might add piddling.
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Long gone are the days when a film held on to one story and fleshed it out through the
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While last year was a great year for the Hindi film industry, the year 2007 has barely seen any big hits.
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It wasn't a year of spectacular films like Rang De Basanti or Lage Raho Munnabhai.   But 2007 gave us some warm films like Aaja Nachle, and some courageous films like No   Smoking.
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The movies in this yearâs Toronto Film Festival were collectively like a wayback machine to the obsessionsâand the memorable filmmakingâof the â60s and â70s
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Onir's film fails to engage in the second half, and gets boring.
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It may have a captivating title, but this film has little else going for it.
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This year's winners at France's most prestigious film festival were small and sometimes esoteric.
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It was a year of rampant uncertainty for the unsuspecting couch potato.
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"Meet the Fockers" dominated the box office last weekend, but the end-of-year period was a disappointing one in general for Hollywood.
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Star appeal, big budgets and swanky  foreign locations have all failed to bring cheer to Bollywood  as the world&#39;s biggest film industry struggled to make a profit  in the first half of 2007.
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It's never happened in all the time we've been doing this: Associated Press reviewers David Germain and Christy Lemire agree on the year's best film. Here's how the rest shake out.