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 film gets no relief from its stay order.
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But the film will not draw in the audiences.
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Periodic bursts of cleverness and eye-popping imagery canÂt disguise that this is just another movie full of jive-talking computer-generated animals with little new to say.
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Apparently movie fans are ready for some football...and little   else.
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The Hollywood hand-wringing of 2005 has been forgotten. After a dismal box-office year and gloomy prophecies about its future, the movie business has rebounded with a solid &#151; though far from spectacular &#151; summer season.
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Audience numbers across the country fell for the second year running in 2006 as film battled for the population's attention with internet activities such as social networking sites and downloading music.
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Forbes.com's top movies of the year based on critical response and box office performance.
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Looking back at 2004, it wasn't a particularly great year for movies. In fact, coming up with a Top 10 List, especially for anyone who doesn't share the Academy's passion for dark depressing films, wasn't easy.
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The Fantastic Four sequel turns out to be okay, but flat overall.
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Except for Hamshmi's non-stop kissing, there's nothing to write home about this lackluster rip off from the Hollywood film Derailed.
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One film that caught the fancy of just about everyone at the recently
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Did somebody blow a whistle and decide that mid-October should be some kind of ad hoc, free-floating film fest? Not really. Current movie-business dynamics are at work.
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The year has so far been abysmally short of talented directors. But all that is about to change.
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Brad SilberlingÂs new movie has nothing to prove, and not all that much to say, but its modesty and good humor make it hard to resist.
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Despite its rich veins of inquiry, the installation, which invites viewers to enter David Lynchâs film, feels sterile and flat.
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Put three old friends in a  convertible for a cross-country road trip to a loved one's  funeral, and what do you get? Very few surprises, in this  feel-good fluff that, despite offering nothing novel, could do  well with older audiences who rightly feel that too few films  are being made with them in mind.