Drama Rated PG
“How do you make the slavery debates of 18th-century British parliament feel cinematic? By casting some of the best brogues around.
Drama Rated R
Another Clint Eastwood essay on the aging process disguised as a genre film. The gray hero he plays here is a top FBI agent who retires after a successful heart transplant, only to return to crime-solving when the sister of the murdered woman whose heart he received shows up demanding he track down the donor’s
Family Rated PG
“…exists in its own lovely little universe, and the best way to appreciate it is to not hold it up to the rules and expectations of ours.
Romantic Comedy Rated PG-13
There are two screen relationships that don’t work here, and both involve stars Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. He’s a washed-up pop star looking to make a comeback and she’s a wounded writer who reluctantly agrees to work with him as a lyricist. Sparks fail to fly between them – both professionally and romantically. Maybe
Comedy Rated R
Not only is this yet another teen movie, but it’s the kind that give teen movies a bad name. Driven primarily by gross-out sex gags, this self-satisfied tale of three goofballs who cheat their way through college is made by the sort of guys who are pushing 30 and still brag about that awesome time
Drama Rated PG-13
A straightforward adaptation of Billie Letts’ popular novel that unfortunately retains all of the book’s emotional manipulation, forced quirkiness and out-of-place brutality. Natalie Portman stars as a pregnant 17-year-old who lives in an Oklahoma Wal-Mart; Ashley Judd is on hand as her long-suffering friend, whose abuse mostly comes at the hands of stereotypical men.
Documentary Rated NR
How does actual outer space, as seen in this 3-D Imax documentary about the construction of the International Space Station, hold up against the slick, special effects-driven outer space we’re used to seeing at the movies? Fairly well, thanks mostly to the crisp realism that only true images – rather than computer-generated ones – can
Horror Rated R
Further evidence that Satanists are rarely anything but silly in the movies, this Kim Basinger vehicle is an exploitative rehash of the Bethlehem story with a 7-year-old girl (Holliston Coleman) in the Jesus part. Rufus Sewell plays the lead Satanist who wants to turn the girl to the dark side, and his knack for making
Like two strangers who have been set up by friends on a blind date, Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant squirm their way through this exasperatingly inept romantic comedy. Studio executives may have thought the charming pair would be perfect for each other, but anyone who sees the movie – in which Bullock plays an idealistic
A handful of strangers (including John Cusack, Ray Liotta and Amanda Peet) are murdered one at a time in a motel on the darkest and stormiest of dark and stormy nights. If the filmmakers had stuck to this B-movie premise, things could have been fun, but Michael Cooney’s over-reaching script tries for Sixth Sense-like significance.
