Waterworld (1995)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

More than the sum of the jokes, but not by much. This is ultimately a botched futuristic epic, but before it completely goes berserk there is plenty of disconcerting beauty and fervid imagination on display. Kevin Costner plays the Mariner, an Aquaman of sorts who sails the unending sea of a future where the polar

War (2007)

Action/Adventure Rated R

“Li…spends most of his time shooting a gun with what are usually much more ingeniously employed hands.

Halloween (2007)

Horror Rated R

“…trades insinuation for obviousness.”

Death Sentence (2007)

Thriller Rated R

“…ultimately undone by a ridiculous final half hour in which Bacon turns into the Terminator.

11th Hour, The (2007)

Documentary Rated PG

"The film’s eagerness to embrace alarmist speculation undermines the basic truths it tells."

2 Days in Paris (2007)

Drama Rated R

“…a female-made romance that largely takes the male’s point of view.

Happy Times (2000)

Comedy Rated PG

Before it succumbs to schmaltz, this well-meaning comedy from Chinese director Zhang Yimou works as a nice fable about a con man who can’t help but do good. Zhao Benshan stars as an aging bachelor whose desperate desire to marry leads him to a variety of George Costanza-like schemes, including a claim to be the

Harvard Man (2001)

Comedy Rated R

Harvard Man opens on the image of a nude sculpture by Auguste Rodin, and writer-director James Toback seems to think he’s offering up a similar convergence of art and eroticism. Instead, this talky and supremely silly morality tale about a Harvard basketball player (Adrian Grenier) who gets caught up in web of drugs, sex and

Heart of the Game, The (2005)

Documentary Rated PG-13

The perception exists that women’s sports still have a purity to them, an emphasis on teamwork and fundamentals that is lacking from the individualistic, highlight reel-driven world of men’s competition. The Heart of the Game, a documentary that follows a Seattle-area girl’s high school basketball program, punctures a hole in that myth. Selfishness, trash-talking, clashing

Her Majesty (2001)

Family Rated PG

Another well-meaning family drama that can’t quite make the leap from cloying to endearing, this New Zealand import details a young girl’s dream of meeting Queen Elizabeth II when she visits the islands in 1953. In its desperate attempt to be sweet and quirky, Her Majesty overplays just about everything. Sally Andrews, making her movie