Drama Rated R
"…not only fails to give the novel cinematic stature; it denigrates the delicate beauty of the book itself.
Action/Adventure Rated PG
In this first theatrical venture for the television series created by Gene Roddenberry, going boldly where no man has gone before mainly means floating … and floating … and floating through space, until you reach a state of Zen bliss or crushing boredom. If the endless interstellar vistas of 2001: A Space Odyssey tested your
The best-received installment in the science-fiction franchise created by Gene Roddenberry is a much more conventionally structured action movie than its debut. Yet if this is the supposed high point for the Star Trek movie series, it’s still a low point for sci-fi. Despite phaser shoot-outs and starship battles, these pictures remain inert affairs, obsessed
I don’t usually fall for it when an actor or actress deglams – when they get scruffy and ugly onscreen in hopes of winning an award. Yet Anne Hathaway redeems the practice in Rachel Getting Married. Hathaway doesn’t really hide her beauty here, as, say, Angelina Jolie did in A Mighty Heart or Charlize Theron
“Holding Frozen River up to traditional standards of morality doesn’t work.
“As a heroic drama, Defiance has its clichés and narrative hiccups, but as an examination of the cycle of violence it’s often harrowing.
Family Rated PG
The birth of fanboy culture? Explorers is a science-fiction lark that came on the heels of the first Star Wars films and featured three young boys bringing their interstellar fantasies to life. A squeaky Ethan Hawke, a baby-faced River Phoenix and a now-forgotten Jason Presson play junior-high friends who build a spaceship and embark on
Horror Rated PG-13
Should a horror film be able to redeem its own idiocy with a switcheroo ending? The Uninvited, a Hollywood remake of a Korean production, certainly hopes so. Up until its last 10 minutes, The Uninvited is increasingly ludicrous and frustrating. The movie opens as high-schooler Anna (Emily Browning) is being released from a psychiatric hospital,
Documentary Rated NR
Cinematic rage against the machine. Documentarians Carl Deal and Tia Lessin capture the Katrina disaster mostly via home video footage taken by Kimberly Roberts, a resident of New Orleans’ doomed Lower Ninth Ward. Her camera recorded the Biblical floods, the astonishing wreckage, the infuriating governmental indifference and the ensuing bureaucratic nightmare. The highlight of Trouble
Drama Rated NR
A quiet stunner. With his assured feature debut, writer-director Lance Hammer explores the tentative relationship between two people on the brink of despair: a suicidal single man (Micheal J. Smith) and his latchkey nephew (JimMyron Ross). With the austere winter landscape of the Mississippi Delta as a backdrop and two novice, riveting actors in the
