In a movie about ancient mysteries, about mystic spells that can reanimate the dead, about mythic creatures conjured to roaring, snarling life, the greatest mystery of “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” is this: How does a picture so obviously expensive wind up looking so cheesy and cheap? Read more...

Will a complacent America that doesn’t vote show up for a comic civics lesson about that complacency? Read more...

He’s a beauty. She, not so much. Read more...

HOLLYWOOD – If former President Bill Clinton knew who Peter Morgan has been talking to lately, he’d probably be tossing and turning all night. Read more...

We waited 10 years for this? Read more...

What an unpleasant bunch of people populate “The Wackness.” Read more...

At the end of the world is a world that’s beautiful, hostile and strange. Read more...

Minnie Driver called to chat last week about her emotional new movie, “The Take,” out on Friday. Read more...

He worked quietly. Read more...

If you’re old enough to read this review, you aren’t the target audience for “Space Chimps,” a movie about chimpanzees sent in search of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Read more...

Sunny as its Greek island locations, “Mamma Mia!” earns its exclamation point. The adaptation of the long-running stage hit is a crowd-pleasing gusher of escapism, not the least of which is respite from summertime teen action fare. Read more...

“Up the Yangtze” is a documentary that doesn’t feel like a documentary. The level of access director Yung Chang was given to his subjects and the perceptive way in which he uses their intimate narratives to illuminate an issue of epic scale give his picture the feel of fictional drama. Its stunning cinematography, graceful and evocative, heightens the impression. Read more...

“Roman de Gare” has more twists and turns than a switchback mountain road. And it’s likely to give you the heart-in-the-throat kind of feeling one gets on such a road as it navigates perilously through its plot’s many convolutions. Read more...

He is chaos.Read more...

We’re living in a new golden age of 3-D movies. So far this year, three 3-D features have opened: the concert pictures, “U2 3D” and “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour” and the live-action adventure “Journey to the Center of the Earth.” Read more...