2007 theatrical releases

It’s the end of the world as we know it — again — but Hollywood’s emphasis is horrifically, hauntingly different for this movie outing.

It’s exhausting just watching the 80-something former president do his thing.

I can’t get on the Sienna Miller bandwagon. I can damn with faint praise: she’s perfectly competent as an actor — but that’s it.

If you think Nicole Kidman is icy and aloof as lady villain Mrs. Coulter in the alterna-world fantasy *The Golden Compass,* wait till you see her in *Margot at the Wedding*…

It’s a bit Cliffs Notes-y, but to be fair, screenwriter and director Chris Weitz has taken a sprawling story with a large number of players and condensed it extraordinarily well…

He’s not there. Bob Dylan isn’t there. They tell us that right in the title: *I’m Not There.* Cuz you can’t pin him down — he’s an enigma, man. What we have instead are coulda-beens, mighta-beens, alternate universes, truths told in jest, a yellow-brick-road journey of you-were-theres, and you, and you, and the yous are all us.

A bold exploration of the theme of extremism taken to the point of tragedy…

Barbet Schroeder’s talking-head documentary on French lawyer and activist Jacques Vergès starts out as if it’s going to explore, at least tangentially, some of the toughest legal and moral concepts for even the most liberal-minded of us to accept.