Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer lightens up on the sadistic violence and excessive sex of The Rock and Con Air for this entertaining, character-driven car-heist flick starring Nicolas Cage. To top it off, the action scenes even make sense – a blessing considering that this is pretty much one long car chase from beginning to end. With

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)

Comedy Rated PG-13

Watching Eric Christian Olsen and Derek Richardson mimic original stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in this extraneous prequel is akin to movie karaoke. It’s entertaining, inasmuch as it’s entertaining to listen to some hack in a bar butcher Frank Sinatra. Actually, considering the first film was one of the slighter comedies from Peter and

Original Kings of Comedy, The (2000)

Documentary Rated R

Director Spike Lee captures the last performance of the hugely successful stand-up comedy tour featuring Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric “The Entertainer” and Bernie Mac. The usual topics – sex, race and family life – are covered in funny but not always original ways, as any look back at 1979’s Richard Pryor Live in Concert

Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)

Documentary Rated G

Less a portrait of the Titanic than a snapshot of those obsessed by it, this 3-D Imax documentary nevertheless offers striking new footage of the famed sunken ship. Director James Cameron returns to the subject matter that inspired his 1997 Oscar-winning picture, and he seems as enthralled with the legend as with the cameras, submarines

Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, The (2005)

Drama Rated PG-13

You know the sort of harried, harangued and yet utterly unflappable housewife who is often referred to as a saint? Prize Winner canonizes one. Adapted by writer-director Jane Anderson from Terry Ryan’s memoir about her mother, the movie recounts how the late Evelyn Ryan (Julianne Moore) supported her 10 kids in the 1950s by writing

Le Divorce (2003)

Drama Rated PG-13

Period-drama director James Ivory (Howards End) visits contemporary Paris for this carelessly scribbled love letter to the romantic moods and manners of the city of lights. Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts play American sisters succumbing to the whims of French men. The tone veers back and forth between farce and tragedy, with a slight thriller

Suspect Zero (2004)

Thriller Rated R

Suspect Zero tries to resurrect the serial-killer thriller by sadly mimicking the television series “The X-Files.” It’s a double-whammy loser. Filling in for Scully and Mulder are Carrie-Anne Moss and Aaron Eckhart, both of whom deserve better roles than those of the romantically entangled FBI agents on the trail of a child-murderer here. Also questionably

Red Planet (2000)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

Hardly a mind-blowing piece of science fiction, Red Planet still entertains as an outer space version of television’s “Survivor.” After five men crash-land on Mars, they engage in a series of wily tactics, machinations and double-crosses that eventually result in only one of them returning to Earth.

Tuxedo, The (2002)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

This Jackie Chan vehicle – about a chauffeur who inherits his boss’ Inspector Gadget-style monkey suit – is a disastrous waste of the Hong Kong superstar’s comic-athletic talents. The tuxedo is operated by a wristwatch that offers a variety of commands, from rifle assembly to demolition mode. One additional option it could have used? How

Underclassman (2005)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

If Nickelodeon ever remade Beverly Hills Cop, it would look something like this. In other words, like something no one really needs. Nick Cannon, who got his start on Nickelodeon’s “All That” sketch series, plays Tracy “Tre” Stokes, a mouthy Los Angeles bike cop who gets stuck in a plot that’s as dated as his