Rating: 3 stars
It’s Sixth Sense, the comedy! In Ghost Town, Ricky Gervais plays Bertram Pincus, a misanthropic dentist who dies for 7 minutes during a routine medical procedure (okay, a...
Rating: 2 stars
Lakeview Terrace is the kind of movie that titillates you with a good premise, then sort of meanders around without actually going anywhere, and then ends in a burst of jarring...
Rating: 2 stars
Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro don’t just make movies anymore. They make Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro movies. They’re always riffing off their past work and their iconic status.
I just...
Rating: 1 star
One can only imagine that the producers of The Women were dancing for joy when Sex and the City became the surprise hit of the early summer. “Hey, that movie is about a group of...
Rating: 3 stars
You could say that Burn After Reading is a spy caper where everything is at it seems to be. You keep waiting for the big reveal, the moment when you find out that at least one of the...
Rating: 2.5 stars]
Will The House Bunny finally be the movie that makes Anna Faris a star? I’ve watched this young actress with interest since she did a spot-on Cameron Diaz impression in Lost in...
Rating: 1 star
To say that I’m not the target audience for Death Race is a bit like saying that Ray Lewis is not the target audience for Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
Suffice it to say, I held...
Rating: 3 stars
As Hamlet 2 begins, a British narrator (uncredited, but I think Jeremy Irons) begins intoning pretentious truisms about the craft of ahcting, as our hero, Dana Marschz (Steve Coogan...
Rating: 1.5 stars
Behind-the-scenes casting decisions are rarely made public—it’s only way after the fact that we discover that John Travolta turned down the Richard Gere role in American Gigolo, or...
Rating: 3.5 stars
When it comes to the more recent works of Woody Allen, we film critics have begun to rely on a standard script. There’s the “he’s washed up!” line that came on the heels of such...
