Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Thriller Rated PG

This second attempt at a Body Snatchers movie may feature the silliest protagonist in science-fiction history: Donald Sutherland’s over-zealous San Francisco health inspector (for his entrance, he triumphantly identifies rat droppings in a pot of soup.) Such silliness – as well as Philip Kaufman’s ostentatious direction – undermines the insidious chill of the story’s conceit:

Nanny Diaries, The (2007)

Drama Rated PG-13

“If you’ve ever rushed your kids from preschool to swimming lessons while a granola bar in the car serves as lunch for everyone along the way, this will be an irresistible guilty pleasure.

Illegal Tender (2007)

Drama Rated R

“Wanda De Jesus’ Pam Grier-worthy performance is the life force of the film. She’s like a domestic Foxy Brown.

Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007)

Comedy Rated G

“…makes the fatal and ironic mistake of talking too much.

Resurrecting the Champ (2007)

Drama Rated PG-13

A movie primer of sorts on newspaper reporting – though not nearly in the same league as All the President’s Men – Resurrecting the Champ might be one of those pictures better appreciated by denizens of a newsroom than anyone else. Josh Hartnett plays a sports reporter who encounters a former boxing legend (Samuel L.

Good Woman, A (2004)

Drama Rated PG

This adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan stars Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson in roles that beg to be flip-flopped. Hunt plays Mrs. Erlynne, a serial seducer of other women’s husbands in the 1930s, while Johansson plays Meg Windermere, a naive newlywed whose groom is in danger of become Mrs. Erlynne’s next target. Hunt

Grey Zone, The (2001)

Drama Rated R

There’s a constant low rumble throughout The Grey Zone – a sobering drama about the Sonderkommando, teams of Jewish prisoners who helped the Nazis usher new arrivals into the gas chambers in exchange for better living conditions – and at first you assume the noise is coming from the constantly burning crematoriums located underground. Then

Grizzly Man (2005)

Documentary Rated R

“Herzog’s subject is too engrossing to be completely nullified by the filmmaker’s intrusions.”

Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)

Action/Adventure Rated R

This third installment makes no apologies about its intent: to unleash absolute chaos across the city of New York and let regular-guy cop John McClane clean it up. Bruce Willis still exudes a world-weary charm, while Samuel L. Jackson – as an indignant Harlem shop owner who tags along – allows for some comic racial

Rush Hour 3 (2007)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

As oppressive and exhausted as the August day this was released in 2007. Actually, the picture feels as if it was made for August, 1999. A still agile Jackie Chan and a still mouthy Chris Tucker team up once again as a pair of mismatched lawmen, but the racial humor and cross-cultural confusion is about