Rating: 2.5 stars
It’s such a great concept, you wonder why it hasn’t been done before: A superhero with a bad attitude, one who saves people, but does so reluctantly, who crash lands, leaves a...
Rating: 3 stars
How do you solve a problem like Angelina Jolie? To me, she is one of the great movie stars of our time. Notice I didn’t say great actress—although she certainly is a better than...
Rating: 2.5 stars
Oh what a curious—and sometimes flat-out weird—movie WALL-E is. I have to admit, it took me a while to grasp its shades and rhythms—and even now I’m not sure if it’s a masterpiece...
Rating: 1.5 stars
Mike Myers is a funny guy. He made three awesomely funny Austin Powers movies (I’m partial to the second—when Mini Me was introduced and joined Dr. Evil in a rendition of Will...
Rating: 2.5 stars
A conspicuously big budget and some game work by the leads elevates Get Smart from utter mediocrity to serviceable entertainment. But still, this update of the popular 60’s series...
Rating: 1.5 stars
Oh, the quandary of M Night Shyamalan. On the one hand, you’ve got to really admire a guy who relies on good old-fashioned storytelling and suspense—nary a CGI effect in this guy’...
Rating: 2.5 stars
I’ll admit that Ang Lee’s Hulk, released in 2003, was a bit of a dud. It was overlong, overwrought, oddly joyless, and featured a drippy Bruce Banner played by Eric Bana. But still...
Rating: 2 stars
They say most movie pitches can be boiled down to a quick sentence, usually combining two hit movies (it’s Titanic meets Lord of the Rings!) to create some unstoppable box office...
Rating: 3 stars
Art and shameless commerce don’t usually intersect, but they do (sort of) in Kung Fu Panda. In many ways, the film feels like it was created by some harried Dreamworks exec in a...
Rating: 1.5 stars
I can almost appreciate what the folks behind The Strangers were trying to do: Create a bare bones horror film using nothing more than an unhappy couple (Liv Tyler and Scott...
