San Francisco Chronicle

‘SHALL WE KISS?’ (2007. NOT RATED. MUSIC BOX FILMS. $29.95.)
Two strangers meet in Nantes, France. He lives there, and she is passing through. At the end of the evening, he goes to kiss …

Ratings based on four-star system.
‘The Book of Eli’
Rated R
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The latest in a wave of post-apocalyptic films is this sly “Mad Max”-y sort of Western, pitting Denzel Washington as a high plains drifter with God on …

Young Viewer’s TakeGreg Vellante
“Alice in Wonderland” is a dizzying movie painted on a dreadfully dull color palette, with lazy and gratuitous brushstrokes of distracting CGI throughout. Director Tim Burton heaps gobs upon gobs of endlessly …

By Jim Carnes
McClatchy Newspapers
Some movies you want to see when they hit DVD — “Up in the Air” and “Precious” from Tuesday’s releases, for example — and some you need to see. “The Stoning of …