Comedy Rated R
“…an exhausting, if ultimately uplifting, experience.”
Romantic Comedy Rated PG-13
This Diane Lane vehicle, in which she plays a divorced woman whose nosy family pushes her into the world of online dating, offers enough doses of real life to elevate it above your average romantic-comedy fantasy. With strong support from John Cusack, Dermot Mulroney and Elizabeth Perkins, this is a pleasant enough romantic-comedy bubble, able
Drama Rated PG-13
There sure are some beautiful vistas in this romantic Western, but they only allow you to see the movie’s laborious cliches more clearly. Clumsily adapted by director Billy Bob Thornton from Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling novel, the movie follows a young Texan (Matt Damon) who falls for the daughter (Penelope Cruz) of a wealthy rancher in
Horror Rated R
“…provocation at its ugliest.”
Horror Rated PG-13
Though it never lives up to the ghost story that serves as its prologue – about a vengeful spirit who attacks kids the night they lose their last baby tooth – Darkness Falls remains serviceably creepy throughout. The main story follows one of the ghost’s former victims – now a predictably disheveled adult – as
Drama Rated R
“…can be strident and didactic, but it’s also necessary.”
Thriller Rated R
“It’s hard to choose the ickiest part of Perfect Stranger…
Family Rated PG
I’m glad it is easy to approve of Hoot, for disapproving of the movie would mean disapproving of a host of good-natured things, including cute owls and the cuter kids who try to save them. Adapted from the Carl Hiaasen novel, Hoot follows a budding teen (Logan Lerman) whose family has just moved from Montana
Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
Just as 2002’s XXX took aim at the extreme sports-loving, Mountain Dew-chugging teen demographic, so does this sequel patronize a stereotyped target market, making it little more than a cheap product cynically manufactured to pluck specific dollars. In tapping Ice Cube as the new secret agent and finding a supporting role for rapper turned Pimp
