Action/Adventure Rated R
"…too brutal and boorish to be a guilty pleasure. It’s just guilty."
Drama Rated PG
"Keke Palmer has single-handedly saved another feel-good drama from drowning in sap."
Comedy Rated PG-13
"Anna Faris has taken a lot of hits for Hollywood, most of them literal."
Family Rated G
“Ursula is an overflowing vamp up top – like Cruella de Vil if she stopped smoking – and a mass of oily black tentacles on the bottom.”
Thriller Rated PG-13
"A fair number of recent, post-9/11 dramas have suffered from the same malady: research paperitis."
Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
"I can’t decide what is most confusing – the nonsensical, science-fiction plot; the participation of classy Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh; or the fact that Vin Diesel’s voice has somehow dropped another register."
Drama Rated PG-13
A quiet and engaging little character study from writer-director Thomas McCarthy. Veteran actor Richard Jenkins gets a lead role (but remains appropriately humble) as Walter Vale, a closed-off professor and widower who makes a rare visit from his suburban home to his New York City apartment and discovers an illegal-immigrant couple (Haaz Sleiman and Danai
Drama Rated NR
This has little of the insinuating nature of the best film noir, as Lana Turner and John Garfield go from 0 to 60 in their first scene together. She plays a simmering housewife; he plays the handyman hired by her husband (Cecil Kellaway). They hardly wait until he leaves the room to plan his murder.
Comedy Rated R
“Ben Stiller has made a lot of Hollywood junk over the past few years, and Tropic Thunder feels like an attempt to cleanse these projects from his system.
Action/Adventure Rated PG
“If it weren’t for the laser cannons and light sabers, you might think you were watching Gettysburg.
