Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
"…the movie is for those who have read the 734-page book by J.K. Rowling and were smart enough to bring it into the theater for quick reference."
Comedy Rated PG
“Perhaps Tim Burton’s definitive work, if not exactly his most polished…”
Drama Rated NR
Camille, in which Greta Garbo plays a society woman on the prowl for a rich husband in 1847 Paris, features a parade of jewel-bedecked gowns, yet when director George Cukor cuts to a close-up of his star, everything else fades. In medium or long shot Garbo is your average actress – even, at certain angles,
Drama Rated R
The career-capping personal epic of hard-boiled director Samuel Fuller (Shock Corridor). From his pitiless crime dramas of the 1950s and ’60s on, Fuller operated a camera that never blinked, never prettied, never judged. He brings that same circumspect tone to this World War II picture, even though much of it is drawn from his own
Musical Rated NR
One in a series of Frankie Avalon-Annette Funicello movie musicals, Bikini Beach has everything you’d expect from a squeaky-clean, 1960s teen picture: cheesy sound effects, countless fake backgrounds, outfits that look like lamp shades, random musical numbers and, for no apparent reason, a chimp (or at least a man in a chimp suit). I couldn’t
Horror Rated R
“…provocation at its ugliest.”
This may be the definitive Busby Berkeley-choreographed musical simply because the entire movie revels in the sort of things that Berkeley’s elaborate dance numbers revel in: innuendo, flirtations and flesh. The movie chronicles the backstage romances and betrayals of a major Broadway production, but the faceless formations of the finale are what give the proceedings
Hysterical and melodramatic, the crooked-cop drama Dark Blue nevertheless strikes a nerve due to its incendiary backdrop: the 1992 trial of the police officers who were caught on tape beating Rodney King. A perfectly rumpled Kurt Russell stars as a corrupt Los Angeles detective who slowly uncovers his conscience. Like Sept. 11, 2001, did in
At 146 minutes, Steven Spielberg’s epic misfire is too long to qualify as a fascinating train wreck; even its spectacular badness grows wearying. As it speculates on the riotous paranoia that strikes Los Angeles in the days after Pearl Harbor, 1941 throws gobs of money and special effects at the screen and strains for laughs
This is a classic British spy yarn, equally rife with intrigue and tweed jackets. Dougray Scott stars as a World War II code-breaker whose brief, doomed affair with a sultry blond may have led to a massive security breach. When his former lover goes missing, he teams up with her neighbor (Kate Winslet) to discover
