Mainstream comedies tend to split down gender lines:
We have our chick-friendly rom-coms and we have our frat-friendly guy films.
Going the Distance attempts to merge the two genres. But since...
Is George Clooney lonely? Feeling disconnected? Because in his last big film, Up in the Air, he played a man who kept moving in order to avoid human connections and now, in The American, he...
You can view Lottery Ticket in one of two ways: As a cliché-ridden tale of inner city poverty, filled with warmed over jokes and borderline offensive stock characters. Or as a sweet rags-to-riches...
As our romantic comedy leading ladies hit their late 30s, the emphasis seems to have moved from finding Mr. Right to finding Mr. Fertility. To wit: Tina Fey in Baby Mama, Jennifer Lopez in The Back-...
I instinctively steered clear of Elizabeth Gilbert’s autobiographical Eat Pray Love because its blend of travel guide and self-help book didn’t appeal to me.
Nothing I’ve seen in the movie version...
Is 2010 the year I officially became too old for the multiplex?
First, we’ve had the regrettable 3-D revolution, to which I stand in staunch, Louis XV style opposition. Then there was Kick Ass, with...
The comedy Dinner for Schmucks (based on the French Le Diner de Cons), is supposed to be a story of redemption, but there’s one problem: Our hero doesn’t need to be redeemed.
When Tim (Paul Rudd) is...
Technically, Charlie St. Cloud is about a promising young man (Zac Efron), about to leave for Stanford on a sailing scholarship, who is driving his kid brother one night when they are...
The producers of Salt had two bits of good fortune on their side: The first is that Russian spies have been in the news lately, otherwise their film might’ve seemed like a dusty Cold War...
The miracle of Lisa Cholodenko’s funny, wise, and warm The Kids Are All Right is not that it successfully showcases a lesbian family, but that it successfully showcases a family, period....
