Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007

By PopMatters Staff

From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck of 2007. [11 January 2008]

Monkey Business (Part 2: June)

By Bill Gibron

Apparently, as the sun's strongest rays finally settle over the movie going public, sequels are the remedy to cool down an overheated demographic. This month alone holds five examples of such redux refreshment. The rest of the choices are a variety pack of genres, ideas and possibilities. [2 May 2007]

A Mighty Heart

By Stuart Henderson

At last, all we have is the horror we began with. Pearl will be beheaded, for nothing, and the world gets a little darker. [16 November 2007]

A Mighty Heart (2007)

By Cynthia Fuchs

In images of the street and daily Karachi life, the movie finds drama that is "unfamiliar" but also crucial, suggesting the complexity of the task set before investigators in Danny's case. [22 June 2007]

The Road to Guantánamo (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

While the movie has been termed a "docudrama" for its mix of reenactments, interviews, and archival news footage, it is not nearly so easy or easygoing about "truth" as such a label suggests. The film's complex form corresponds to its story, in the sense that "truth" is precisely what troubles it. [11 January 2007]

The Road to Guantánamo (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

The very illegibility of the movie's representational process, you imagine, approximates the assaults on the prisoners. [23 June 2006]

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

The film controverts various theories of writing and reading, production and reception. [3 February 2006]

9 Songs: Unrated Full Uncut Version (2004)

By Dan Nishimoto

Through sex, specifically the surrender and exposition of self through this oldest human hobby, Michael Winterbottom communicates the beauty and pain of a relationship. [13 January 2006]

9 Songs (2005)

By Jesse Hassenger

9 Songs knows the limits of its material, and doesn't test them. [29 July 2005]

Code 46 (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

According to screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, 'The 20th century was the Freud century, and the 21st century's going to be the genetics century.'" [17 January 2005]

Code 46 (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

William's seeming gift of empathy is a deception: anyone could do his job, if properly infected. [5 August 2004]

In This World (2002)

By Elbert Ventura

Attempting to put a human face on the refugee crisis, Winterbottom puts a premium on legibility. [9 October 2003]

24 Hour Party People (2001)

By Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

Tony Wilson lived for the explosive moment. [9 August 2002]

The Claim (2000)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Here the primary players are caught between forging their futures (individual and communal) and regretting their pasts, conjuring up a civilization in an unforgivably brutal environment. [1 January 1995]

Kidnapped journalist’s murder leads to Jolie film [14 June 2007]