Drama Rated R
“…a particularly embittered entry in the suburban satire genre.”
Horror Rated R
This import perfectly captures kids at play, as well as something related but darker. Ten-year-old Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano) leads an idyllic life in rural Italy until one day he comes across a covered pit next to an old farmhouse and on further investigation finds … Exactly what, the movie leaves up to you. Such ambiguity
Comedy Rated PG-13
This pop-culture satire came under fire for being all over the place, but that’s like complaining that a trapeze artist shouldn’t be performing so far up in the air. The movie exhilarates precisely because it takes random, high-altitude risks. Among the contestants of a televised talent show is a small-town girl with big-city ambitions (Mandy
Romantic Comedy Rated PG
Writer-director Oliver Parker continues the charming, witty conversation he began with 1999’s An Ideal Husband by tackling Oscar Wilde’s better-known play. The result is pretty much the same, and delightfully so: another verbal roundelay conducted by an exquisite cast. Rupert Everett stars as a rich and eloquent English layabout whose only true pursuit is the
Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
If you see this latest take on the Jesse James legend, starring Colin Farrell, Scott Caan and Ali Larter, let me know what it’s like. American Outlaws was so generic and inconsequential the first time I sat through it, I can barely recall what happened.
Thriller Rated PG-13
Deja Vu may be the first Tony Scott movie that makes you itchy in a good way. The director of Domino, Enemy of the State and Spy Game, Scott has become the definitive ADD filmmaker. But his style is fitting for this thriller, in which the past and the present overlap (Denzel Washington plays the
Comedy Rated R
Yes, the raunchy sex gags return as the four high-school buddies from the original film reunite after their first year at college, but thankfully so does the self-deprecating honesty that made American Pie an oddly touching teen flick. There’s plenty of titillation here, but also a surprisingly mature recognition that casual sex may not be
Thriller Rated R
Derailed belongs to the long movie tradition in which a basically good man makes a moral misstep that leads to his complete undoing, yet I can’t think of another movie morality play that details the undoing to such a ludicrous degree. A dependable if distracted husband and father (Clive Owen) begins an affair with a
Musical Rated R
Jack Black and Kyle Gass’ jokey death-metal band is at once a spoof of rock music’s deranged theatrics and a chance for the pair to revel in those theatrics. These guys are very funny, but I have a feeling that deep down they wouldn’t mind if you took them seriously. Thankfully, there is very little
Perhaps the high altitude explains why, after Red Eye, this is yet another ludicrously plotted 2005 airplane thriller. Just thinking about that thin air must mess with screenwriters’ heads. Flightplan – with Jodie Foster as a grieving widow whose daughter may or may not have been kidnapped mid-flight – is the far better picture because
