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...
Rating: 3.5 stars
Sex and the City ran for six seasons on HBO and, amazingly, it never once jumped the shark. If anything, the final seasons were its strongest—with the show’s addictive blend of...
Rating: 3.5 stars
Young @ Heart, a documentary about a chorus of senior citizens who sing rock and punk songs, works, fabulously, on three different levels.
For one, it’s a performance film,...
Rating: 3 stars
We can all agree that sequels made several years after the fact are generally duds. For proof, look no farther than The Godfather 3, The Two Jakes, and the recent crop of Star Wars...
Rating: 2.5 stars
Sadly for me, all the things I liked best about the original Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe—Tilda Swinton’s icily mesmerizing White Witch; James McAvoy...
Rating: 3 stars
An unapologetically sentimental cross between Be Kind, Rewind and Stand By Me, Son of Rambow is about the importance of boyhood friendships and the gloriously unhinged pleasures of...
