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Borat’s uproarious, until he’s not. Riding the new wave of squirm comedy.

Volver’s heady pleasures expire a little too soon. Death of a President is a sleepy provocation.

No one does bad parenting better than Annette Bening. Plus: Dirty Harry’s anti-violence campaign.

California Split begins with Altmanesque babble, which is always in the background. We’re used to gambling movies made in a style as feverish as their protagonists. But Altman sits back and watches the ebb and flow�the traffic of lost souls.

Leave the rich girl alone. Music aside, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette is far from a royal disgrace.

Everyone’s going to hell in The Departed, and Martin Scorsese has fun killing them off along the way.

And bow down to Helen Mirren. A wonderful film about cool, clueless Elizabeth in the days after Diana.

In The Science of Sleep, Michel Gondry’s magic-carpet ride almost makes it through the night.

De Palma wilts and Affleck is eh. Plus: scruffy crusader Al Franken.

Outkast's energetic mishmash of a movie musical. Plus: the gross-out spectacle of How to Eat Fried Worms.