Movie Releases by Genre

Conventioneers

Conventioneers

October 20, 2006
Conventioneers tells a Romeo-and-Juliet story of a Republican man who falls into a politically forbidden relationship with a Democrat woman who is protesting the Bush agenda. (Hyphenate Films)
Metascore:
60
User Score:
tbd
Running with Scissors

Running with Scissors

October 20, 2006 | R
Running With Scissors is the hilarious and poignant feature film based on the personal memoir by Augusten Burroughs. The film chronicles Augusten's survival under the most extraordinary of circumstances. (Sony)
Metascore:
52
User Score:
6.1
Sleeping Dogs Lie

Sleeping Dogs Lie

October 20, 2006 | R
Bobcat Goldthwait has written and directed a story that adeptly explores honesty, family, forgiveness and courage. By frankly probing our relationships and idealization of the absolute virtues of honesty, Sleeping Dogs Lie is a funny and perceptive dark comedy. (Roadside Attractions)
Metascore:
63
User Score:
5.7
Hair High

Hair High

October 18, 2006
Cartoonist Bill Plympton's Hair High is a gothic high-school comedy with a "Carrie"-like story.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
tbd
Man of the Year

Man of the Year

October 13, 2006 | PG-13
What would happen if one of the nation's funniest men became its leading one? This film answers just that question in a comic tale of an entertainer's accidental rise to power. (Universal)
Metascore:
39
User Score:
5.2
Driving Lessons

Driving Lessons

October 13, 2006 | PG-13
An intensely personal rites of passage story about the influence that an older actress has on an awkward young teenager, the son of a vicar, when he goes to work as her assistant. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Metascore:
56
User Score:
7.3
Zerophilia

Zerophilia

October 13, 2006
In this sci-fi influenced romantic comedy, a young man who is insecure about his masculinity attempts to uncover the mystery of his rare genetic disorder, Zerophilia, before it transforms him into a female.
Metascore:
41
User Score:
7.1
Employee of the Month

Employee of the Month

October 6, 2006 | PG-13
The competition for employee of the month recognition at discount retailer Super Club becomes a winner-takes-all proposition when two clerks go head to head to win the title and the girl, a beautiful new cashier who only dates Employee of the Month winners.
Metascore:
36
User Score:
5.1
Kettle of Fish

Kettle of Fish

October 6, 2006 | R
A lifelong bachelor (Modine) confronts his intimacy issues when he sublets his apartment to an attractive biologist (Gershon).
Metascore:
38
User Score:
3.2
Shortbus

Shortbus

October 4, 2006 | Not Rated
John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. The characters converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. Set in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, Shortbus tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart. [ThinkFilm]
Metascore:
64
User Score:
7.3
Open Season

Open Season

September 29, 2006 | PG
A domesticated grizzly bear finds that there's more to life than being the star attraction of a mountain town nature show when a fast-talking mule deer offers him a crash course in woodland living.
Metascore:
49
User Score:
6.2
School for Scoundrels

School for Scoundrels

September 29, 2006 | Not Rated
In School for Scoundrels, Jon Heder plays Roger, a beleaguered New York City meter maid who is plagued by anxiety and low self esteem. In order to overcome his feelings of inadequacy, Roger enrolls in a top-secret confidence-building class taught by the suavely underhanded Dr. P (Thornton). Aided by his assistant Lesher (Duncan), Dr. P uses unorthodox, often dangerous methods, but he guarantees results: Employ his techniques and you will unleash your inner lion. (MGM)
Metascore:
44
User Score:
7.7
Jackass Number Two

Jackass Number Two

September 22, 2006 | R
Johnny Knoxville and friends are back to raise the stakes higher and lower the bar further. (Paramount)
Metascore:
66
User Score:
7.1
Feast

Feast

September 22, 2006 | R
From executive producers Wes Craven, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chris Moore comes a new terrifying tale, Feast, the winning film from the hit series "Project Greenlight." When a diverse group of strangers find themselves trapped in an isolated tavern, they must band together in a battle for survival against a family of flesh-hungry creatures that lay siege. (Dimension Films)
Metascore:
43
User Score:
7.5
Zen Noir

Zen Noir

September 22, 2006
A nameless detective, still mourning the loss of his wife, investigates a mysterious death in a Buddhist temple, but his logical, left-brained crime-solving skills are useless in the intuitive, non-linear world of Zen. (Zenmovie, LLC)
Metascore:
27
User Score:
7.2
The Science of Sleep

The Science of Sleep

September 22, 2006 | R
The Science of Sleep is a playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvy brain of Stephane Miroux (Bernal) an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life. (Warner Independent Pictures)
Metascore:
70
User Score:
7.8
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros

September 22, 2006
A gay cross-dressing preteen's unquestioned devotion to his family of smalltime criminals in a Manila slum is undermined when he is befriended by a principled rookie policeman.
Metascore:
70
User Score:
tbd
Train Man

Train Man

September 22, 2006
Based on a true story that has become an internet phenomenon in Japan, Train Man is about an otaku (Japanese for geek) who saves a young woman from a drunken assailant on a commuter train, and instantly falls in love with her. (Imaginasian)
Metascore:
60
User Score:
tbd
Sólo con tu pareja

Sólo con tu pareja

September 20, 2006
A modern-day Don Juan is forced to reevaluate his bedroom behavior when a scorned lover decides to take revenge. (IFC First Take)
Metascore:
61
User Score:
6.0
Everyone's Hero

Everyone's Hero

September 15, 2006 | G
What if you had one chance to be a hero? Would you take it? Or play it safe? That is the question facing an ordinary boy in Everyone's Hero, a funny and warm tale of a kid who believes he can make a difference if he just hangs in there despite overwhelming odds. (20th Century Fox)
Metascore:
51
User Score:
5.4
The Last Kiss

The Last Kiss

September 15, 2006 | R
Tony Goldwyn's remake of Gabriele Muccino's 2001 comedy drama (L'Ultimo Bacio) focuses on a group of 30 year-olds struggle to adapt to adulthood.
Metascore:
57
User Score:
5.2
Confetti

Confetti

September 15, 2006 | R
A sharp and affectionate comedy featuring an ensemble of UK comedic talents, Confetti follows three couples as they duke it out to win a bridal magazine contest for "Most Original Wedding of the Year." (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Metascore:
57
User Score:
tbd
Checking Out

Checking Out

September 15, 2006 | PG-13
A snappy, smart and heart-warming comedy for the 21st century unfolds against modern day Manhattan. Peter Falk stars as Morris Applebaum, a feisty retired thespian with deep roots in Broadway theater. On the eve of his 90th birthday, Morris invites his three middle-aged children back to his stylish apartment for the party of a lifetime. As a postscript, Morris informs them bluntly that after the party he plans to bring the curtain down on himself and make his "final exit." Flying in from all parts of the country, his children converge on their father's home to try and convince him that life is still worth living. (Allumination Filmworks)
Metascore:
44
User Score:
7.0
Keeping Mum

Keeping Mum

September 15, 2006 | R
Walter Goodfellow (Atkinson) is the well-meaning vicar of the parish of Little Wallop. So obsessed with writing the perfect sermon, he's oblivious to his wife Gloria's (Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor Lance (Swayze), has trouble keeping track of his daughter Holly's parade of new boyfriends, and neglects his young son Petey. Enter the charming and discreet new housekeeper Grace (Smith), the answer to the family's prayers. Problems solved only lead to more problems created in this story of good intentions run amok. (ThinkFilm)
Metascore:
53
User Score:
7.3
Beer League

Beer League

September 15, 2006 | R
Beer, broads and baseball combine with hilarious results in Artie Lange's Beer League, an over-the-top comedy about a group of misfits whose weekly softball games seem to have a lot more to do with getting into fights for macho dominance than hitting home runs. (Echo Bridge Entertainment, LLC)
Metascore:
40
User Score:
6.3
Rolling Family

Rolling Family

September 8, 2006 | Not Rated
A warm, vivacious comedy about love, life, laughter and the compromises we make for family. When Emila, (Gracina) an Argentinian grandmother is invited to be the 'matron of honor' at the wedding of a distant niece she invites her whole family to accompany her. They set off in a 1956 Chevy Viking camper on a cross country journey. (Palm Pictures)
Metascore:
62
User Score:
tbd
Lassie

Lassie

September 1, 2006 | PG
The film is set on the eve of World War II in a Yorkshire mining town. After falling on hard times, the Carraclough family is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog, to the Duke of Rudling. When she succeeds in escaping her cage, Lassie finds herself transported five hundred miles away to the Duke's remote castle on the northern coast of Scotland. However, she is determined to defy the odds and return to the home she loves. So begins an incredible adventure, set against a stunning series of landscapes, that sees Lassie facing dangers both natural and human finding help in unexpected places as she make her way across the country, to reach home in time for Christmas. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Metascore:
84
User Score:
7.1
Looking for Kitty

Looking for Kitty

September 1, 2006 | R
Another witty and humane ode to male bonding, Looking for Kitty tells the story of Abe (Krumholtz), an upstate New York high school basketball coach, who wakes up to discover that his beautiful wife Kitty has disappeared. When someone sends Abe a photo from a newspaper showing a rock star and his entourage, including a woman who could be Kitty, Abe heads to New York City and hires a private detective (Burns) to find her. (ThinkFilm)
Metascore:
43
User Score:
tbd
Mutual Appreciation

Mutual Appreciation

September 1, 2006 | Unrated
Alan (Rice), a musician whose band has just broken up, shows up in New York to pursue his burgeoning rock and roll career. He starts by searching for a drummer for a show he’s already lined up, and otherwise goes about the mechanics of self-promotion. He finds a champion in Sara (Lee), a radio DJ who sets her sights on a submissive but uninterested Alan -- and finds him a drummer. In his down time, Alan drinks and strategizes with his old friend Lawrence (Bujalski), a grad student, and Lawrence’s girlfriend Ellie (Clift), a journalist. Alan endeavors to keep his shoulder to the wheel, while Ellie finds herself compelled by him. The attraction is mutual, but both parties are reluctant to take a next step. (Goodbye Cruel Releasing)
Metascore:
84
User Score:
6.1
Idiocracy

Idiocracy

September 1, 2006 | R
Private Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson), the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes five centuries in the future and discovers a society so incredibly dumbed down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.
Metascore:
66
User Score:
7.5
Beerfest

Beerfest

August 25, 2006 | R
The Broken Lizard comedy group returns to the big screen in a new comedy that proves revenge, like beer, is best served cold. (Warner Bros.)
Metascore:
46
User Score:
6.5
How to Eat Fried Worms

How to Eat Fried Worms

August 25, 2006 | PG
Based on the hugely popular Thomas Rockwell book, How to Eat Fried Worms tells the classic story of a boy whose bravado lands him in a difficult predicament. (New Line Cinema)
Metascore:
56
User Score:
4.7
Queens

Queens

August 25, 2006 | R
A whimsical, contemporary ensemble comedy, Queens stars five of Latin Cinema's most celebrated and beloved actresses as hard-hitting mothers coping with the marriages of their sons during Spain's first-ever gay wedding en masse. (Regent Releasing)
Metascore:
49
User Score:
5.0
Surviving Eden

Surviving Eden

August 25, 2006
In the tradition of "Waiting for Guffman" and "Take the Money and Run," a documentary film crew captures the pitfalls and pratfalls of reality show winner Dennis Flotchky. One million dollars richer and 150 pounds thinner but none the wiser, Dennis quickly and hilariously falls prey to the machinations of the Hollywood celebrity maker and the vultures and hangers-on the accompany it. (Cineville)
Metascore:
30
User Score:
7.6
LOL

LOL

August 23, 2006
Alex, Tim, and Chris view the women in their lives through the dimensions of a computer screen or the lens of a camera-phone, as they struggle to balance their online fantasies and addictions with the demands of real life. This up-to-the-second feature intimately explores masculinity in the new millennium, a time when young men are trying to decipher the mixed messages of modern relationships and technology. Featuring a nonprofessional cast, video contributions from people all over the world, and original music by lead actor Kevin Bewersdorf, this funny and thoughtful film offers an honest portrait of how the latest tools of communication can either help us click or turn us off.
Metascore:
72
User Score:
3.6
Accepted

Accepted

August 18, 2006 | PG-13
High school senior Bartleby "B" Gaines is on his way to scoring eight out of eight rejection letters from colleges, which isn't going to go over big with Mom and Dad. At least he's not alone in the exclusion. Several of his crew of outcast friends are in the same, college-less boat. So how does a guy facing a bleak career please his parents and get noticed by dream girl Monica? Simple. Open his own university. (Universal Pictures)
Metascore:
47
User Score:
8.0
Material Girls

Material Girls

August 18, 2006 | PG
A comedy that takes you from the penthouse to the poorhouse and back again, along with Ava and Tanzie Marchetta (the Duff sisters) as celebutantes who realize that potential they never knew they had. (MGM)
Metascore:
17
User Score:
4.3
Factotum

Factotum

August 18, 2006 | R
Based on the novel by Charles Bukowski, Factotum is the story of a man living on the edge; a writer who risks everything, tries anything, and finds poetry in life's pleasure and pain. (IFC Films)
Metascore:
71
User Score:
6.7
Trust the Man

Trust the Man

August 18, 2006 | R
An unflinching yet winsome exploration of modern relationships -- and modern men and women -- in all of their humor, tragedy, imperfection and triumph, this sophisticated comedy follows the romantic escapades of two New York couples. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Metascore:
43
User Score:
6.3
Pusher III: I'm the Angel of Death

Pusher III: I'm the Angel of Death

August 18, 2006 | Not Rated
PUSHER III takes place over the course of a single day, with the now middle-aged Milo struggling to prepare his daughter’s 25th birthday party. As Milo fights his own personal demons in the form a smack addiction he’s trying to kick, his business day proves equally challenging once a shipment of ecstasy arrives in place of the heroin he was expecting. Milo is forced to contend with a new order of young hoods in order to move this designer drug he knows little about. Now feeling the squeeze he himself had put on so many before him, Milo must find a way to maintain his place of dominance atop the Copenhagen underworld. To do so he will have to survive one of the most harrowing episodes of his long, illustrious career. [Magnolia Pictures]
Metascore:
72
User Score:
7.4
Conversations with Other Women

Conversations with Other Women

August 11, 2006 | R
When a man and a woman flirt with each other at a wedding reception, the sexual tension between them seems spontaneous. But as the conversation deepens, their previous life together is gradually revealed. As they break from the party to a hotel room, the flirtation turns into a night filled with passion and remorse. (Fabrication Films)
Metascore:
62
User Score:
7.7
Barnyard

Barnyard

August 4, 2006 | PG
A hilarious look at what really happens in a barnyard when the farmer's back is turned. (Paramount)
Metascore:
42
User Score:
5.8
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

August 4, 2006 | PG-13
The team behind "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" turns their focus to the world of NASCAR.
Metascore:
66
User Score:
6.5
Boynton Beach Club

Boynton Beach Club

August 4, 2006 | R
A romantic comedy about our amazing capacity to rebound and fall in love -- at any age. (Roadside Attractions)
Metascore:
61
User Score:
6.5
Scoop

Scoop

July 28, 2006 | PG-13
In Woody Allen's new contemporary comedy, an American journalism student (Johansson) visiting friends in London happens upon the scoop of a lifetime. Along the investigative trail, she finds magic, murder, mystery - and perhaps love, with a British aristocrat (Jackman). (Focus Features)
Metascore:
48
User Score:
6.6
John Tucker Must Die

John Tucker Must Die

July 28, 2006 | PG-13
Three teenagers two-timed by a local lothario decide to turn the tables on him in this romantic comedy. (Fox)
Metascore:
41
User Score:
5.7
The Ant Bully

The Ant Bully

July 28, 2006 | PG
When a boy floods an ant hill with his water gun, he finds himself shrunk to insect size and forced to deal with his victims.
Metascore:
59
User Score:
5.6
Another Gay Movie

Another Gay Movie

July 28, 2006 | Not Rated
This film spoofs not only "American Pie" and gay movies from "Trick" to "The Broken Hearts Club," but also the entire gay lifestyle. (TLA Releasing)
Metascore:
37
User Score:
6.4
Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine

July 26, 2006 | R
Little Miss Sunshine is an American family road comedy that shatters the mold. Brazenly satirical and yet deeply human, the film introduces audiences to one of the most endearingly fractured families in recent cinema history: the Hoovers, whose trip to a pre-pubescent beauty pageant results not only in comic mayhem but in death, transformation and a moving look at the surprising rewards of being losers in a winning-crazed culture. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Metascore:
80
User Score:
7.5
Clerks II

Clerks II

July 21, 2006 | R
This long-awaited sequel to Kevin Smith's breakthrough comedy revisits the New Jersey world of Dante and Randal.
Metascore:
65
User Score:
7.2
Monster House

Monster House

July 21, 2006 | PG
Columbia Pictures and executive producers Robert Zemeckis and Steven Speilberg present Monster House, an exciting and hilarious thrill-ride tale about three kids who must do battle with a mysterious house that threatens anyone who crosses its path. (Columbia Pictures)
Metascore:
68
User Score:
8.2
My Super Ex-Girlfriend

My Super Ex-Girlfriend

July 21, 2006 | PG-13
Breaking up is hard to do, especially when you unwittingly dump a super hero.
Metascore:
50
User Score:
8.4
Fan-Fan the Tulip

Fan-Fan the Tulip

July 21, 2006
This stylish swashbuckler French comedy was originally released to great acclaim in 1952.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
tbd
The Groomsmen

The Groomsmen

July 14, 2006 | R
A coming-of-age comedy, set in New York, about a single guy counting down the days to his wedding.
Metascore:
57
User Score:
7.0
Little Man

Little Man

July 14, 2006 | PG-13
Darryl Edwards (Shawn Wayans) is so eager to become a father that he mistakes a short, baby-faced thief (Marlon Wayans) on the lam for an abandoned toddler. He and his wife take the "baby" into their home while the thief's partner (Morgan) tries to help him recover a stolen diamond. (Sony Pictures)
Metascore:
26
User Score:
4.9
You, Me and Dupree

You, Me and Dupree

July 14, 2006 | PG-13
The wildly comic story of a suburban couple (Dillon, Hudson) who are just trying to make their new marriage work when her and me unexpectedly becomes You, Me and Dupree (Wilson). (Universal Pictures)
Metascore:
46
User Score:
8.2
Mini's First Time

Mini's First Time

July 14, 2006 | R
An irreverent, scandalous, edgy black comedy proves that having it all comes at a steep price. (First Independent Pictures)
Metascore:
45
User Score:
7.8
The Oh in Ohio

The Oh in Ohio

July 14, 2006 | Unrated
Priscilla Chase (Posey), a young Cleveland woman, seems to have it all -- the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect husband (Rudd) -- except for in bed, where sex has always left her a bit short of the finish line. When the problem drives her husband to leave her suddenly for one of his high school students (Barton), Priscilla's idyllic world is shattered. She sets out on a quest to become just as good at sex as she is at everything else in life, embarking on a wild journey that leads her into the arms of the man she least expected and to the discovery that happiness is sometimes found in the most unlikely places. (Cyan Pictures)
Metascore:
48
User Score:
7.7
Cease Fire

Cease Fire

July 7, 2006
An Iranian comedy about strife between a husband and wife.
Metascore:
50
User Score:
tbd
The Great Yokai War

The Great Yokai War

June 30, 2006 | PG-13
A young boy becomes an unlikely hero when he is chosen as the "Kirin Rider" and must lead Japan's ancient Yokai spirits in their apocalyptic war against the evil monsters. A lavish remake of the 1968 film "Yokai Daisenso" from acclaimed director Takashi Miike. (Media Blasters)
Metascore:
63
User Score:
5.6
The Motel

The Motel

June 28, 2006
Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean American man who has checked in. Sam teaches the fatherless boy all the rites of manhood. (Palm Pictures)
Metascore:
70
User Score:
6.9
Strangers with Candy

Strangers with Candy

June 28, 2006 | R
Strangers with Candy is a daring leap backwards. A prequel to the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series of the same name, it is the tale of Jerri Blank (Sedaris), a forty-seven year old ex-con, junky whore who decides to return home after thirty-two years as a runaway. (ThinkFilm)
Metascore:
57
User Score:
6.6
Click

Click

June 23, 2006 | PG-13
When an overworked architect (Sandler) finds a universal remote that lets him control his universe, he feels a rush of power. But before he knows it, the remote is programming him, rather than the other way around. (Sony)
Metascore:
45
User Score:
6.7
Say Uncle

Say Uncle

June 23, 2006 | R
The suburbs are about to get hysterical in this "not quite black" comedy about suspicion, fear, and misunderstanding, and a gay artist living in Portland.
Metascore:
31
User Score:
7.3
The Great New Wonderful

The Great New Wonderful

June 23, 2006 | R
The Great New Wonderful is populated by people you know: New Yorkers you see on the elevator, in the supermarket, at the gym. Without a trace of sentimentality, director Danny Leiner, a Brooklyn native, and his extraordinary cast paints five portraits of life in this city a year after the attacks of 9/11. (First Independent Pictures)
Metascore:
57
User Score:
7.0
Wassup Rockers

Wassup Rockers

June 23, 2006 | TV-MA
Ten years after "Kids," Larry Clark hits the streets of South Central Los Angeles. Wassup Rockers is based on the real life experiences of a group of Latino teenagers who do not conform to the hip hop culture of their gang-infested neighborhood. They wear their clothes tight, listen to and play punk rock, and ride skateboards. Constantly harassed for being different, they fight to be themselves. (First Look Releasing)
Metascore:
56
User Score:
7.3
The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

June 16, 2006 | R
Based on the hit underground comic strip, this hilarious, gay romantic comedy follows the story of Ethan Green, an adorable 26 year-old professional "assistant" looking for love in all the wrong places. (Regent Releasing)
Metascore:
38
User Score:
6.1
Only Human

Only Human

June 16, 2006 | R
This gloriously irreverent family comedy fuses brilliant characterization and unrelenting humor to rework the age-old story of meeting the parents with a hilarious modern twist. (Magnolia Pictures)
Metascore:
70
User Score:
5.4
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

June 16, 2006 | PG
Garfield, America's favorite cat, is going continental. He's traveling across the pond (with canine sidekick Odie) to surprise his master, Jon Arbuckle (Meyer), who is in London to propose to his girlfriend, veterinarian Liz Wilson (Hewitt). (20th Century Fox)
Metascore:
37
User Score:
5.6
Nacho Libre

Nacho Libre

June 16, 2006 | PG
Jack Black stars as Ignacio (friends call him Nacho), a cook by day in a Mexican orphanage, who moonlights as a lucha libre wrestler to raise money for the orphans in this comedy from the creators of "Napoleon Dynamite" and the writer of "The School of Rock." (Paramount)
Metascore:
52
User Score:
6.9
Slow Jam King

Slow Jam King

June 9, 2006
Brought together by a carjacking, a motley multiracial trio head for an escapist roadtrip to Nashville, where they discover truth, love, and the dirty underbelly of the country music scene. (Slow Jam King Productions)
Metascore:
45
User Score:
tbd
Cars

Cars

June 9, 2006 | G
This is a fast-paced comedy adventure set inside the world of cars. Fueled with plenty of humor, action, heartfelt drama and amazing new technical feats, Cars is a high octane delight for moviegoers of all ages. [Disney]
Metascore:
73
User Score:
7.5
A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion

June 9, 2006 | PG-13
Director Robert Altman and writer Garrison Keillor join forces with an all-star cast to create a comic backstage fable, A Prairie Home Companion, about a fictitious radio variety show that has managed to survive in the age of television. (Picturehouse)
Metascore:
75
User Score:
6.5
Agnes and His Brothers

Agnes and His Brothers

June 9, 2006
Agnes and his brothers have little in common, except an eccentric old father, relationship problems that are totally screwing up their lives, and a distinct possibility those two things are connected. (First Run Features)
Metascore:
46
User Score:
tbd
The Break-Up

The Break-Up

June 2, 2006 | PG-13
Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston star in The Break-Up, which starts where most romantic comedies end: after boy and girl have met, fallen in love, moved in to start their happily-ever-after -- and right when they wind up driving each other crazy. [Universal Pictures]
Metascore:
46
User Score:
7.3
The Puffy Chair

The Puffy Chair

June 2, 2006 | R
The story of three very different people and a giant purple puffy chair in a too-small van. -- and one of them has to go before the trip's end. (Roadside Attraction)
Metascore:
73
User Score:
5.3
Sto je muskarac bez brkova?

Sto je muskarac bez brkova?

May 25, 2006
A young widow, an aging immigrant who has returned home from Germany, and a priest from a bankrupt parish are struggling to come to terms with the post-war environment, complete with its prejudices, illusions, and unpleasant mentality. What follows is a powerful, poignant romantic comedy set in rough landscape, about a woman who falls in love with a local priest. He is not blind to her love, but is unable to choose between the church and her, until the circumstances force him to make his choice.
Metascore:
62
User Score:
tbd
Over the Hedge

Over the Hedge

May 19, 2006 | PG
A mischievous raccoon (Willis) and his sensitive best-buddy turtle (Shandling) along with other forest creatures try to resist the evils and temptations of encroaching suburbia.
Metascore:
67
User Score:
7.9
Just My Luck

Just My Luck

May 12, 2006 | PG-13
Ashley (Lohan) is the luckiest girl in New York City, where she has a promising career and a life full of glamour and romance. Jake (Pine) is the unluckiest guy in town, tormented by constant mishaps and missed opportunities. Everything changes for Ashley and Jake when they meet at a swank masquerade party, share a kiss, and miraculously swap their luck. Now Ashley's ultra-fabulous life is going completely sour while Jake is finally living large. But Ashley is determined to track him down and steal her luck back. (20th Century Fox)
Metascore:
29
User Score:
6.3
Keeping Up with the Steins

Keeping Up with the Steins

May 12, 2006 | PG-13
Like the young Indian braves of long ago, Benjamin Fiedler (Sabara) is about to undergo an initiation rite that will take him from boy to man. But rather than face the perils of the hunt, he must endure something far worse -- a Bar Mitzvah in Brentwood, California. (Miramax Films)
Metascore:
57
User Score:
6.1
Russian Dolls

Russian Dolls

May 10, 2006 | Not Rated
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier (Romain Duris), William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Metascore:
67
User Score:
6.9
Crazy Like a Fox

Crazy Like a Fox

May 5, 2006 | PG-13
When big-city speculators cheat him out of his farm, old-time, eccentric Virginian Nathaniel Banks leaves his family and makes a new home in a cave on the creek, inspiring a community-wide rebellion as he eventually forces his way back home. Nat won't go down without a fight! (Delphi Film Foundation)
Metascore:
49
User Score:
tbd
Art School Confidential

Art School Confidential

May 5, 2006 | R
Art School Confidential follows talented young artist Jerome Platz (Minghella) as he escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art school. Here the boyish freshman's ambition is to become the world's greatest artist. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Metascore:
54
User Score:
6.2
Hoot

Hoot

May 5, 2006 | PG
Three middle-schoolers take on greedy land developers, corrupt politicians, and clueless cops in the mystery adventure Hoot based on Carl Hiaasen's Newbery Honor-winning book. (New Line Cinema)
Metascore:
46
User Score:
6.2
One Last Thing...

One Last Thing...

May 5, 2006 | R
One Last Thing… is the story of Dylan Jameison (Angarano), a 16 year-old kid from an industrial town in Pennsylvania, who has terminal cancer, and who's living life as fast as he can. When a charitable organization, "United Wish Givers," grants Dylan a last wish, he initially chooses to go fishing with his football hero, Jason O'Malley. But that's not what he really wants. In a moment of inspiration during the locally televised news conference, Dylan reveals that his true final wish is to spend a weekend with supermodel Nikki Sinclair (Mabrey). (Magnolia Pictures)
Metascore:
44
User Score:
7.6
Side Effects

Side Effects

May 5, 2006
A young woman fumbles with love and ethics as she navigates a career with one of corporate America's darlings… the pharmaceutical industry.
Metascore:
46
User Score:
tbd
Stick It

Stick It

April 28, 2006 | PG-13
The writer of the hit comedy "Bring It On" takes on the world of competitive gymnastics in Stick It. Haley Graham (Peregrym) is a rebellious 17-year-old who is forced to return to the regimented world of gymnastics after a run-in with the law. (Touchstone Pictures)
Metascore:
53
User Score:
7.3
RV

RV

April 28, 2006 | PG
Overworked Bob Munro (Williams) and his family are in desperate need of some quality time together. After promising to take them on a vacation in Hawaii, Bob abruptly changes plans and organizes a road trip to Colorado in a recreational vehicle. Dragging his wife and kids kicking and screaming into the RV, Bob's togetherness plan almost immediately hits a speed bump, and everything that can go wrong, does. (Sony)
Metascore:
33
User Score:
5.4
Guys and Balls

Guys and Balls

April 28, 2006 | R
Disgraced and kicked off his homophobic soccer team, Ecki swears revenge against his former teammates. With the help of his sister, he forms a rag-tag, all-gay team to compete in the ultimate grudge match. It's a hilarious journey for Ecki, his family and their entire town in this sweet, sexy and thoroughly surprising comedy. (Regent Releasing)
Metascore:
60
User Score:
tbd
American Dreamz

American Dreamz

April 21, 2006 | PG-13
Paul Weitz brings us an utterly insane comedy about politics, reality TV and the idea that everybody in America has a dream - and how that 'great thing' can actually drive our culture crazy. (Universal Pictures)
Metascore:
45
User Score:
4.5
Mongolian Ping Pong

Mongolian Ping Pong

April 21, 2006 | Not Rated
When young Bilike finds an ordinary ping pong ball, he and his friends take to flights of imaginative whimsy and embark on a journey to find the source of the mysterious unknown object. Bilike's old grandmother says the ball is a glowing pearl sent by the gods, but the boys are skeptical after it fails the test. Since none of their other family members are able to offer any more insight, the three boys trek to the faraway monastery to consult the wise lamas. But even the grasslands' most knowledgeable inhabitants are stumped. When a television show finally reveals that the object is the "national ball of China," the determined young scouts set off to return the ping-pong ball to the Chinese capital, where an even bigger adventure and more amusing trouble await them. (First Run Features)
Metascore:
64
User Score:
tbd
Standing Still

Standing Still

April 21, 2006 | R
When a group of college friends re-unite four years after graduation, anything can and will happen. (Freestyle Releasing)
Metascore:
38
User Score:
7.6
Scary Movie 4

Scary Movie 4

April 14, 2006 | PG-13
What do you get when you mix fearless comedic genius with the latest box-office blockbusters? You guessed it. The Scary Movie gang is back with the most hilarious and irreverent installment yet. (The Weinstein Company)
Metascore:
40
User Score:
5.8
The Wild

The Wild

April 14, 2006 | G
An odd assortment of animals from the New York Zoo including a lion, a giraffe, an anaconda, a koala and a squirrel discover what a jungle the city can be when they set off on a daring mission to rescue one of their own in this outrageous, computer-animated comedy-adventure. (Disney)
Metascore:
47
User Score:
4.9
Kinky Boots

Kinky Boots

April 14, 2006 | PG-13
A failing shoe factory, a concerned son and a feisty female impersonator with a flair for design all play a part in this heartwarming and hilarious comedy, inspired by true events, shows what really happens when people who have spent their entire lives trying to fit in suddenly decide to truly stand out. (Miramax Films)
Metascore:
57
User Score:
6.8
Preaching to the Choir

Preaching to the Choir

April 14, 2006 | PG-13
Through the intersection of gospel and hip hop, east coast and west coast, the sacred and the secular, Preaching to the Choir weaves a story of unconditional love and redemption, a story of community. (Codeblack Entertainment)
Metascore:
49
User Score:
tbd
Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story

Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story

April 13, 2006
Banned for ten years from the sport he helped to bring to the masses, Paintball's first superstar, Bobby Dukes, returns to reclaim his title and erase the memory of his tainted past. (The 7th Floor)
Metascore:
54
User Score:
7.1
The Benchwarmers

The Benchwarmers

April 7, 2006 | PG-13
The Benchwarmers tells the story of three guys (Schneider, Spade, Heder) who try to make up for their lack of athleticism when they were younger by forming a three-man baseball team to challenge a full squad of elementary school baseballers. They develop a large following of left-out kids as they head into a high-stakes, winner-take-all game with the best team of kids in the state. (Sony Pictures)
Metascore:
25
User Score:
5.3
Phat Girlz

Phat Girlz

April 7, 2006 | PG-13
Starring the hilarious Mo'Nique as Jazmin Biltmore, a smart-mouthed aspiring fashion designer, Phat Girlz is an edgy comedy about two frustrated plus-size women obsessed with their weight while struggling to find love and acceptance in a world full of hot bodied bases. The Phat Girlz are thrown a major curve ball when the men of their dreams who come from a culture where big is better. (Fox Searchlight)
Metascore:
36
User Score:
7.1
Simon

Simon

April 7, 2006
A sexy, witty, emotional and life-affirming story of friendship and family, which shows that even through difficult times the love, strength, and humor of the ones closest to you can make life, no matter how brief, worth living. (Strand Releasing)
Metascore:
59
User Score:
tbd
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