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Cars is too nice for its own animated good. Plus: Wordplay’s fluidity and James Toback’s madness.

The sweet, sweet sadness of Robert Altman’s Prairie Home Companion.

Big-screen responses to media obsessions both frivolous (The Break-Up) and serious (The War Tapes).

Go see Al Gore’s new documentary—and then pay attention to who attacks it.

How Ron Howard desecrated The Da Vinci Code while the X-Men franchise survived Brett Ratner.

The Da Vinci Code neuters itself.

When the folks at the Tribeca Film Festival invited me to be a juror for their New York Loves Film Documentary Feature competition, it was hard to refuse, especially when they said that two of my fellow jurors would be Rosie Perez and Moby.

Poseidon can’t help but bring you down.

Poseidon can’t help but bring you down. Plus: Gael García Bernal’s creepy flatness.

The response to my essay on plagiarism last week (“Where Have I Read That Before?”) was swift, so here goes: Yes, it is plagiarized. Ninety- nine percent of it.