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The Dukes of Hazzard is a film so meaningless that it is almost impossible to review, according to critic Kenneth Turan. He says the movie is, "not empty calories, which implies pleasure, but simply empty. It's a cosmic void where a movie ought to be."

In the new film Cronicas, a Miami reporter travels to a small Ecuadorian village to cover a series of brutal murders and get the biggest story of his career. He's tracking a possible serial killer dubbed the Monster of Babahoyo.

Robert Siegel talks with Bruce Nussbaum, editorial page editor of Business Week, about the magazine's annual Best Product Design issue. The 2005 winners include a sleek update on training wheels, the iPod shuffle and a toilet design that "recasts the whole concept of the toilet."

Our Day to Day television critic reviews Kathy Hilton's new reality show, I Want to Be a Hilton, which premieres tomorrow on NBC. On the show, the hotel heiress teaches a motley group how to act like blue-blood members of the jet set.

Chocolate and weddings dominate this week's movie releases -- Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan reviews what film critics are saying about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wedding Crashers and Happy Ending.

Nelson George, a prolific writer and critic of black America, has made a documentary based on his best-selling book Post-Soul Nation. The new film, Smart Black People, profiles African-American personalities who left their stamp on America in the 1980s.

Is the latest Steven Spielberg epic worth your movie dollar this weekend? Slate senior editor Andy Bowers looks at what film critics are saying about the week's new movies, including War of the Worlds, Rebound and The World.

His film, Kinsey, is currently out on DVD. It's about the scientist Alfred Kinsey, whose pioneering research in the 1940s and 1950s examined human sexuality. Condon interviewed many of Dr. Kinsey's colleagues before writing the script.

Teller, the usually silent half of the magician duo Penn and Teller, reviews the book, The Glorious Deception, by Jim Steinmeyer. It's a biography of the magician known to audiences as Chung Ling Soo, who Teller says was a genuine enigma.

Film critic Kenneth Turan reviews what Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman's calls his final movie, Saraband. The film features a divorced couple from one of his earlier works.