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"Get Smart" never quite makes you laugh as much as it should, but still survives thanks to solid performances from Steve Carrel and Anne Hathaway

An icon of the dying days of the Studio Era, character actor Alan Arkin, is born again through this year's Academy Awards.

Steve Carell breaks away from the shallow studio comedies for a spin in this smart and hilarious indie.

Despite overt pushiness with played-out indie-quirk elements, "Sunshine Cleaning" gets its brightest rays from a cast able to find natural nuance in their characters.

Get Smart is so much better than its summer trailer let on--it looks like a typical eye-rollingly lame exercise in obvious humor. But surprisingly, it's pretty cute.

Jerry Seinfeld loses the self-referentiality for the first official Bee Movie trailer.

Sunshine Cleaning is occasionally inconsistent with its tone and reasoning, but unusual circumstances make it interesting. Emily Blunt and Amy Adams shine.

In one of Tim Burton's most sensitive films, Johnny Depp portrays the sweetly innocent creation of a lonely old inventor.

Two sisters who start a biohazard removal and cleanup service for crime scenes learn lessons in love and humanity along the way.

Black comedy, drama, suspense and heartbreak thrive in the midst of a fledgling family cleaning business for messy murders and other tragic situations.

Director Peter Segal brings Maxwell Smart and his leading lady, Agent 99, into the 21st Century with an action packed remake of the original comedic series.

With the barrage of "holiday classics," there are some films that don't get the attention they deserve. Here are movies that take an alternative look at the season.

It wanders and weaves like the three drunken husbands in the John Cassavetes film of the same name - but proves just as amiable company

This sweet Frankenstein story depicts the artist as a sensitive outsider who is perceived as a monster by the insiders.

The story of two sisters who start a biohazard removal and cleanup service for crime scenes cleaned up at the box office during opening weekend.

A review of the film where criminal, taking advantage of a woman's blindness try to con her in order to retrieve a doll stuffed with heroin.

The Return of Captain Invincible was shot in Australia and is a strange mix of comedy, fantasy, musical and action genres. It's become a cult favourite for many SF fans.

In an updated take on the Mel Brooks-produced spy spoof TV show of the 60's, director Peter Segal draws on elements of the classic show, for this summer hit, now on DVD.

Adapted from the famed 1960's TV series of the same name, Get Smart gets laughs through a classic-style of slapstick comedy.

Marley & Me, the book, is a great investment in time and money. Marley & Me, the movie, is a different animal altogether.

Steve Carell is perfect as the bluming agent Maxell Smart in this big screen adaptation of the popular television series of the same name.

If you see only a few Audrey Hepburn productions, keep these in consideration.

This film is based on the play of the same name by David Mamet.

The adaptation of journalist John Grogan's best-selling novel, based on the triumphs and turmoil of his relationship with his dog, Marley, throughout his short lifetime.

When a thirty-something woman decides to expand her cleaning business, she opens a crime-scene cleanup service.

Dreamworks slipped a preview of Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie as an extra on the Over the Hedge DVD.

A hilarious and well-made "Get Smart" brings a whole new audience to the beloved television show.

The dogs are off the leash and on the loose on DVD this month with an animated canine action hero, a pampered Beverly Hills pooch, and a disobedient puppy.

Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges also appear in this Grant Heslov-directed film adapted from Jon Ronson's 2004 nonfiction book by the same name.

Celebrate Thanksgiving with recently released family-friendly videos featuring people gathered together to share good times with good food.

No surprises with The Departed, Martin Scorsese, Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker winning top honors.

The new project by the Academy Award-winning filmmaker is set for U.S. release on October 2 of this year, and will explore the global economic meltdown.

This year's Edinburgh Film Festival boasts an impressive line-up with new films by Steven Soderbergh, Sam Mendes, Kathryn Bigelow and Dario Argento on show.

Film will make viewers cry, but they might be tears of joy as well as sadness.

The new project by the Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore finally gets a name.

This month's DVD releases include some great romantic classics, up-to-the-minute comedy, and a variety of musical documentaries, dramas, and science fiction new and old.

A review of a movie that poses the question, what happened to the fourth wise man?

Johnny Depp helps bring Tim Burton's dark creative visions to life in films ranging from animation to horror.

Sprawling, disappointing and immensely disturbing -- that's how the first full day of the PFF went, from Red Cliff to The Private Lives of Pippa Lee to Antichrist.

Life and works of Carson McCullers, one of American South greatest novelists, wrote brilliant novels in her early 20s, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

Despite only being published in 2008, Rebecca Miller's story of Pippa Lee and her complex past is already a modern classic which has spawned a successful film adaptation.