TPS reports. The O-Face. The Bobs. Jump to Conclusions. The Red Swingline Stapler. Flair. You know what I'm talking about, and here's why: Over the past eight years, Office Space has become the most universally-watched and rewatched film of all time...

Kids these days. When they're not doing drugs, they're selling drugs. When they're not selling drugs, they're buying drugs. And when they're not buying drugs, they're stealing money. To buy drugs.Or so it goes in Alpha Dog, an "inspired-by-actual-events" trip into the world of super-rich teenage deviants...

Even when I know in my bones that a movie is good, it's hard for me to recommend a big downer.Children of Men might be an amazing picture, but let's be truthful: It's a workout, and it's not a good movie to help you escape the post-holiday stress...

2006 is over. Superman returned, as did Jack Sparrow and James Bond. Tom Cruise is still with us, but Don Knotts and Jack Palance are not...

In the beginning, there was Job. A few thousand years later, there was Chris Gardner. A few open sores aside, the stories follow a strikingly similar trajectory...

Right up front, let me assure you of my ineptitude as a lecturer on Mayan culture. A solid 99 percent of everything I know on the subject I learned from watching Apocalypto, so you would be rightly reluctant to accept a history of the Mayan people from your lowly film critic...

When last we saw director John Stockwell, his camera was leering at mostly-naked starlets in 2005's Into the Blue, a stunted thriller with roughly half the plot of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue...

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I'd have to spend roughly 800 words panning a Christopher Guest movie. If you've seen any of his work as a writer or director - This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind - you might understand why: the man obviously has a comic gift that, over the past 20 years, has made him virtually peerless among living satirists...

One of the most astute observations I've encountered in recent years, which I've gone on to reference in at least a thousand late-night conversations, came from a graphic novel called Goldfish...

Mix equal parts documentary and mockumentary, throw in an unhealthy dash of anti-Semitism, a pinch of garden-variety xenophobia, add a dollop of Baywatch, mix it all up in an ice cream truck and garnish with black bears. What do you have?Borat, that's what...

Augusten Burroughs' blockbuster 2002 memoir Running with Scissors is a smart, funny and perhaps sensationalized account of one monstrously strange childhood. Its author, a grade-school-graduate-turned-alcoholic-turned-advertising-rep-turned-author, has been one of my favorites since I read this, his second and best book...

The first thing the viewer learns in The Prestige is that every magic trick has three acts: the Pledge, in which the audience is presented with a mundane, unspectacular object; the Turn, in which the object is made to become extraordinary; and the Prestige, in which the audience is shown something that defies their wildest expectations, to the greater glory of the magician...

We learned from a certain 2004 horror film, that whenever someone dies in a circumstance that is extraordinarily brutal or hateful, a grudge is born...

There are several things that can be safely assumed about a Martin Scorsese picture. One of those is that it will be, in its best moments, unbelievably intense. Another is that the man has a knack for coaxing amazing performances from his actors. Still another is that the film will be a near-perfect package of wit, violence and intrigue...

School has changed a lot since I was a kid. It has been rocked. It has grown old. And now it nurtures and educates scoundrels...

People go to the movies for a lot of reasons. One of the reasons I go (besides the fact that, y'know, it's my job) is because I like seeing actors and filmmakers take on life's Big Questions: What's the relative value of truth in this modern world? Is it noble to pursue others' happiness over our own? And so on...

Meet Michael.At 29, Michael (Zach Braff) is an architect, which is, I think we all can agree, a perfectly enviable job for a 29-year-old to have.What's more, he has a beautiful girlfriend, a nice duplex in a quiet, lovely neighborhood, a close-knit group of lifelong friends and a baby girl on the way.Does he fell lucky? C'mon, why would he? No, in Michael's world, all his good fortune adds up to a stark prospect: that, in his words, "there are no more surprises...

On the evening of June 16, 1959, George Reeves, TV's first Superman, played host to a small gathering of friends at his home. Toward the evening's end he said goodnight to his houseguests without fanfare and went upstairs to bed.Minutes later, the reportedly depressed actor put a revolver to his temple...

All right, first things first: before we get too deep into scary movie season, let's go down our list and make sure we haven't forgotten anything, lest we end up like those Blair Witch kids.Let's see….Secluded town? Check.Standoffish locals? Check...

Before the leaves change each year, so do the film ads. You can see it happening if you look closely enough: Sure, Invincible looks pretty good, but what's this Step Up nonsense? The Covenant? Man, that looks bad. And don't even get me started on that basketball movie starring Wayne Brady...