Family Rated PG
“There are only a couple of quiet moments … but the movie makes the occasional calmness count.
Comedy Rated PG-13
Date Night, in which Steve Carell and Tina Fey play harried parents whose romantic evening goes horribly awry, is as carefully crafted to appeal to its target market as any Twilight film. In other words, if you’re closer in age to the baby sitter in the movie, I wouldn’t bother. But if you’re married with
Comedy Rated R
“Kick-Ass isn’t dangerous, it’s juvenile … like hearing a fourth-grader proudly detonate his first F-bomb in front of a teacher while his friends are watching.
Horror Rated R
A Nightmare on Elm Street has a powerful sense of surrealism – both visually and thematically – that more than makes up for the movie’s horror hokum. Written and directed by Wes Craven, the film takes a diabolically ingenious conceit – a killer (Robert Englund) who murders teens in their dreams, so that they’ll never
Drama Rated PG-13
Julie & Julia was largely criticized for its split format. Most people loved Meryl Streep as a fluttery, determined Julia Child, while hardly anyone wanted to spend time with Amy Adams’ narcissistic blogger, who chronicles her attempt to cook her way through Child’s famous recipe book in one year. Yet as unlikeable as the Adams
Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
“Agreeable cheese.
Drama Rated PG
Gorgeous and anchored by a flinty performance from Abbie Cornish, it’s a mystery as to why this Jane Campion period piece fades away rather than catches fire. Cornish plays Fanny Brawne, a seamstress who had a love affair with John Keats up to his youthful death. Campion beautifully weaves Keats’ poetry with her romantic imagery,
“There hasn’t been this unnecessary of a back story since Ron Howard felt the need to dramatize the childhood of one Mr. Grinch.
“How embedded has Earth Day become in our culture? It now gets its own inane Hollywood movie to mark the occasion.
“…may mark the beginning of Mickey Rourke’s re-descent (cooing to a cockatoo in Russian will do that).
