Weekend Movie Forecast: Up or Drag Me to Hell

The dramedy Call Center concerns the Detroit employees of a call center that's being outsourced to India; instead of training their replacements when they arrive from the subcontinent, the Americans go on the offensive to try and undermine the move. Aaron Hillis at the Village Voice isn't the only critic who hates it, but his review may be the most inspired: "Trained by the pissed-off workers they're about to replace, the trio experiences dramatic tension of a junior-high cafeteria caliber, as the Americans gently sabotage (prank calls!), humiliate ('Bring us coffee!'), and make xenophobic retorts like 'But we're American, Pedro.' [Director Diane] Cheklich and her co-writers seem as if they're consciously not taking sides on such a complex issue, but that only means both cultures are depicted as myopic caricatures, and . . . [With apologies, the Voice has outsourced the rest of this review to Mumbai] . . . it's a good movie, and I like all the time."