Miracle positions itself as one of those uplifting, patriotic movies you could get thrown into jail for disliking. The film, which follows the Cinderella U.S. hockey team at the 1980 Olympics, models itself after Remember the Titans and The Rookie, but those pictures earned their tones of triumph by grounding themselves in genuine emotion, something

This drama directed by Robert Redford stars Matt Damon as a disenchanted professional golfer in 1930s Georgia who’s rejuvenated by a mysterious caddy (Will Smith). Both stars are good, but the story is a limp and contrived bore that vaguely grasps at spiritual uplift. I realize a lot of people take golf seriously, but Bagger

An Oscar-angling vanity project for John Travolta, this is one of those glamorous portraits of would-be losers in which a run-down shack appears to have benefited from a chic interior decorator. Travolta plays a disgraced professor drinking his life away untilhis past comes back in the form of a mysterious young woman (Scarlett Johansson). The