Thriller Rated PG-13
“I’ve played games of Scrabble that were more gripping than this.
Horror Rated R
A remake of the 1976 thriller about a little boy who sidelines as the Antichrist, this features an alarming number of classy actors getting whacked in the most classless of ways. Among the victims of various impalings and beheadings are Pete Postlethwaite (In the Name of the Father), David Thewlis (Harry Potter and the Prisoner
Comedy Rated R
When Kevin Smith made his microbudget splash with 1994’s Clerks, his was a singular voice that spoke for an entire generation of twentysomething slackers. In Clerks II, Smith returns to the slackers of the first film (Jeff Anderson and Brian O’Halloran), and though there is some hilarious dialogue – particularly for movie geeks – the
Drama Rated PG-13
Insufferably arty, this is the French version of a botched Hollywood blockbuster: It’s misguided, self-indulgent and nonsensical. Written and directed by Claude Lelouch (1966’s A Man and a Woman), the movie stars Jeremy Irons as an aging jewel thief with a tendency to black out. He leaves France in a luxury yacht, washes up in
“…a movie about big stars, and about why we slap down hard-earned money to see them on the big screen.”
Drama Rated R
Most romantic tragedies turn on contrived, facile melodrama, but the shattering Brokeback Mountain hurts so much because its tragedy feels so true. The movie’s lovers, a pair of cowboys who first meet in 1963 Wyoming (Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger), are kept apart by forces that you can feel: prejudice, societal pressure and above all
Thriller Rated NR
A model for breezy, bantering filmmaking of the criminal kind, To Catch a Thief has the feel of being made while on a getaway vacation. Here the destination is the French Riviera, where a retired cat burglar (Cary Grant) has curled into a cozy existence. His life of illicitly gained leisure is disrupted, however, when
Thriller Rated R
Robert Redford gives this independent drama a jolt of star magnetism, but it’s not enough to shake it out of its psychological pretensions. Redford plays a wealthy executive who is kidnapped, and the rest of the movie follows two parallel strands: the executive’s increasingly abstract conversations with his abductor (Willem Dafoe) and his wife’s (Helen
Drama Rated NR
An earnest but cliched independent effort about a high-school senior and aspiring animator (Dante Basco) struggling to reconcile his ambitions with his immigrant Filipino heritage. Obvious if well-intentioned lessons abound, meaning you’ll probably want to like The Debut more than you actually do.
“… a riveting study of a psychosis that’s made worse by our callous consumer age.”
