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...
Rating: 1.5 stars
When I saw The Matrix for the first time, I was tempted to give it a one word review: “Cool.” With its fresh use of CGI martial arts effects, dense mythology, and, of course, those...
Rating: 2 stars
It’s hard to muster up a whole lot of enthusiasm for What Happens in Vegas. After all, any film about the battle of the sexes that breaks out the old “why must guys leave the toilet...
Rating: 3.5 stars
There are very few super heroes you’d actually want to hang out with. I mean, Batman is all dark and gloomy, and Superman is a bit of a stiff, and Spiderman is way too angst-ridden...
Rating: 2.5 stars
Once I got past the horrible pun in the title (and trust me, that took a Herculean effort), I had to admit that Made of Honor was a fairly breezy, proficient crowd pleaser. Is it...
