Perhaps Monster-in-Law or Unleashed (two films I haven’t yet seen) will provide moviegoers with some scares on this Friday the 13th. But the two films reviewed below – Will Ferrell’s disappointing new family comedy, and a documentary on global child labor – are, unfortunately, neither terrifyingly bad nor frighteningly good.
Kicking and Screaming (Slant magazine)
Stolen Childhoods (Slant magazine)
For some real shocks, check out Takeshi Miike’s bodily fluid-saturated Visitor Q. Or, if you’re simply interested in seeing Paris Hilton bite the big one (figuratively, not literally), there’s always the new House of Wax. Both are reviewed below.