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Assorted workers vie for the coveted title of "Employee of the Month."

The animated Open Season is long on manic energy and bathroom humor but short on real storytelling, emotion, and characters.

Strange as it may be to say, Jackass: Number Two is just the kind of vicarious excitement for which the movies were invented.

Mike Judge's underrated comedy Idiocracy is the story of a man who awakes 500 years in the future to find a society so dumbed-down that he instantly becomes the smartest person alive.

This kids movie, which was filmed in Austin, is not as wormy as it sounds.

Accepted asserts that a college run by students might be better than its institutional alternative, but who wants education advice from the creators of such a witless, uninspired excuse for a college comedy?

Will Ferrell runs comic circles around NASCAR.

The literal and figurative institutionalization of Austin music and art legend Daniel Johnston is analyzed from many angles in this perceptive film profile.

Steve Buscemi directs this story about a lovable loser who moves back in with his off-kilter family in Indiana.

This SXSW recipient of the 2004 Audience Award for Best Narrative stars The Daily Show's Rob Corddry as a professional paintball athlete looking to reclaim his former glory.

Writer-director James Gunn knows what makes horror fans howl, and is one heck of a writer to boot.

A movie so exasperating it's driven our reviewer to escape into song.

The original version of this comedy was a little countercultural, a lot class-conscious, and a touch subversive; this remake is all farce when what is needed is satire.

This film is a passionate if clunky cri du coeur for the kidnapped and murdered women of Juarez, Mexico – a silent epidemic of as many as 450 crimes in the last 10 years.

Dorian Blues has wit, humor, good performances, and clever technique, which catapult the film into the front ranks of coming-out movies.

More collegiate humor released by the folks at the Lampoon that has more hormonal smarts than necessary and about as many sex and toilet gags as you suspect.

This Venezuelan film about the kidnappings that are endemic in Caracas bursts with stylish technique and gruesome tension.

South Korean horror cultist Park Chan-wook's 2002 film is the opening freshet in his bloody cinematic triptych; it’s also a finely wrought and emotionally complex film of surpassing, stylized beauty.

A scrappy Seventies throwback about vigilante justice in the corrupt urban jungle.

Masterful aerial action sequences don't compensate for earthbound plot.

This Australian horror film arrives at the tail end of a recent and very substantial cinematic zombie overdose. Unfortunately, there are only so many ways to slice the walking dead.

A superstar DJ goes deaf in Ibeza in this mockumentary that observes his process of coping.

Crude comedy of sexual errors falls flat.

Greenebaum's superstylized first feature attempts to mesh fiction with nonfiction while remaining a narrative, and it attempts to do it almost entirely in the confines of a nursing home, entirely in one day.

An off-the-grid family copes with depression and a tax audit outside Taos, N.M., in this warm and unusual drama directed by Campbell Scott.

The life of a retired German miner and accordion player is spurred toward change by the sound of zydeco music.

Filmed in Austin with Tommy Lee Jones, Man of the House is nothing to write home about.

The latest from the Scream team hardly merits a weak yelp.

Sequel has absolutely none of its predecessor’s manic charm.

Despite bearing a title that practically cries out for disrespect from antsy filmgoers, the new Ice Cube picture (he stars as well as co-produces) demonstrates the actor's amiable side and proves he can headline a family picture.