This week’s film fare raises the age-old question “What’s worse, a bad romance or a bad comedy?” The two contenders are the Zac Efron melodrama CHARLIE ST. CLOUD and the Steve Carell vehicle DINNER ...

And rest assured, no American comedy is going to call itself Dinner for Schmucks without showing us the actual dinner for schmucks, which is, naturally, this movie’s comic apogee. There’s a blind ...

In his first executive meeting at the Beverly Hills equity firm where he works, junior analyst Tim (Paul Rudd) sizes up the others sitting at the long table, and they toss quick knives back. They ...

Like a good meal, the elements in “Dinner for Schmucks” take time to prepare. First, we meet Tim (Paul Rudd). He’s got a girlfriend, Julie (Stephanie Szostak), who he thinks is too good for him. He ...

Who doesn’t like Steve Carell, or Paul Rudd, for that matter? Two of the coolest guys in comedy are back this Friday, July 30th in a new movie called DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS, directed by Jay Roach. The ...

There's a lot less bite in "Dinner for Schmucks" than there was in the classic French farce that was its inspiration. Whereas "The Dinner Game" ("Le Diner de Cons") from celebrated writer-director ...

In Steve Carell’s first few episodes of the American version of The Office, his character, Michael Scott, hewed closely to the template created by the series’ British mastermind, Ricky Gervais. Scott, ...