Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)

Drama Rated R

A pleasant little coming-of-age movie buoyed by a lively performance from Omar Sharif, Monsieur Ibrahim charts the relationship between a Jewish boy (Pierre Boulanger) and a Muslim shop owner in 1960s Paris. Sharif brings his usual gravity to the screen, but there is a lightness to Ibrahim as well. For most of its running time

Uptown Girls (2003)

Drama Rated PG-13

How much you like Uptown Girls will depend on how much you like the main characters: A New York City heiress (Brittany Murphy) who becomes the nanny for a world-weary 8-year-old (Dakota Fanning) when her inheritance dries up. Considering I found the former to be a squeaky flake and the latter to be a predictably

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007)

Comedy Rated R

“…conjures up the surreal adolescent daydreams of stuffy high-school classrooms. You might as well be watching the doodling in some kid’s otherwise unused notebook come to life.

Butterfly Effect, The (2004)

Thriller Rated R

You’ve got to hand it to a movie brazen enough to kill both animals and babies in bids for audience sympathy. The Butterfly Effect – in which Ashton Kutcher plays a student who can return to his childhood, alter an event and then awaken to a new future – relies on beatings, infanticide, the murder

Disturbia (2007)

Thriller Rated PG-13

“The preposterousness of Disturbia increases at an alarming rate … until you finally start losing track of all of your objections.

Criminal (2004)

Drama Rated R

Another pointless Hollywood remake of a foreign film that was just fine to begin with, this updates the 2000 Argentinian con-man drama Nine Queens with half the panache and none of the surprise of the original. John C. Reilly steps out of character-actor status as the lead, a middle-aged grifter who teams up with a

Pathfinder (2007)

Action/Adventure Rated R

Are these really the ancestors of IKEA? Set 600 years before Columbus, this depicts a showdown between peaceful Native Americans and invading Vikings, who rape and pillage with all the sadistic glee of characters in a film directed by Marcus Nispel (2003’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). The movie is so ludicrously savage that it almost

Forgotten, The (2004)

Thriller Rated PG-13

I wouldn’t dare reveal where The Forgotten goes, but suffice it to say the movie ends up in a place that is very, very far from where it starts. That’s too bad, for the first third of this increasingly erratic thriller works as a moody meditation on the nature of grief. Julianne Moore stars as

Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

Action/Adventure Rated R

In this routine martial-arts thriller, Jet Li gets upstaged by overblown violence and raunchy sex. Li looks uncomfortable during most of it, especially during his awkward scenes opposite Bridget Fonda as a hooker with a heart of cliches.

Monster-in-Law (2005)

Comedy Rated PG-13

It takes awhile for Monster-in-Law to bare its teeth, but once the movie does, everything on screen begins to click. As the harridan future in-law, Jane Fonda embraces the over-the-top, blackly comic tone from the start, and once Jennifer Lopez, as the tormented bride-to-be, joins in, she proves surprisingly light on her feet. With invaluable