Drama Rated PG-13
“Love has rarely seemed as fragile and precious as it does in Away From Her…
Romantic Comedy Rated PG-13
“Somewhere beneath the forced Southern quirkiness and the icky obstetrician-patient romance, Waitress touches on something interesting about a woman’s misgivings during pregnancy.
Drama Rated R
“Garry Marshall has to be the most tone-deaf filmmaker at work today.
“…a charming ode to the title city, less because of how it celebrates Paris’ romantic reputation than for the way it lovingly tweaks that image.
Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
“…any movie that involves something called the ‘nine pieces of eight’ doesn’t really care if you can follow it.
Comedy Rated PG-13
A good-natured movie that deserves a better title, a better script, a better effort from everyone behind the camera. Basically a gospel-themed remake of The Music Man, with Cuba Gooding, Jr. in the Harold Hill part, The Fighting Temptations has a few fun musical numbers but mostly goes through the motions. Audiences deserve better too.
Director Sidney Lumet (Serpico) wants to combine the gritty organized crime of “The Sopranos” with the wacky Mob yucks of Analyze This – and he has chosen none other than Vin Diesel to bridge that cavernous gap. The movie is based on the landmark trial of a New Jersey crime family, but it focuses mainly
Hardball, about a Chicago gambler (Keanu Reeves) who turns his life around by coaching an inner-city kids’ baseball team, has little more in mind than playing with your heartstrings, but it does so with gentle tugs. It’s a movie for softies that uses a surprisingly soft sell.
Family Rated PG
I’ve never seen the Nickelodeon animated series on which this is based, so I was hoping it would help explain the show’s appeal. But aside from some visual wit – including the way Arnold’s mouth is always placed in the far corner of his football-shaped face – there’s little imagination on display, especially in the
Mark Ruffalo’s scruffy irritability makes for just the right tonic to Reese Witherspoon’s latest romantic comedy, which otherwise consists of as much cotton-candy fluff as might be expected. She plays a dear, departed emergency room doctor who haunts her former apartment – and the sad sack (Ruffalo) who has moved in. When these two team
