She’s the Man (2006)

Romantic Comedy Rated PG-13

A nice little vehicle for the gifts of Amanda Bynes, who is rare among teen starlets in that she doesn’t sell CDs on the side and she has a real, natural talent. This light teen comedy is casually modeled on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, and amidst all its gender-bending farce, the movie has a smart absurdist

Showtime (2002)

Comedy Rated PG-13

Starring Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy as mismatched cops forced to pair up for a television reality series, Showtime means to spoof the big-gun cop blockbusters of the ’80s while still shooting off a few guns of its own. The gimmick works, thanks mostly to the easy camaraderie of the leads – they’re an

Abandon (2006)

Thriller Rated PG-13

Katie Holmes shows impressive range as a college senior who is helping a detective (Benjamin Bratt) investigate the two-year disappearance of her boyfriend. Her sly performance, at turns demur and devious, elevates yet another school-set thriller into something more psychologically layered.

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

Yet another one of those movies you thought you had to see until you actually saw it, this three-hour World War II epic is bloated with a silly romantic triangle (between Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale) and bolstered by a competent re-creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. At its worst, this

Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights (2002)

Comedy Rated PG-13

Imagine a Peanuts holiday special in which Lucy got drunk and Snoopy spent most of his time defecating and you’ll get an inkling of what’s offered by this animated musical. Like Big Daddy, one of Sandler’s worst films, this mixes raunchy gags with shameless sentimentality as it follows the redemption of a modern-day Scrooge (voiced

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)

Drama Rated PG

James Caviezel went from one saintly figure to the next with Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius, a golfing biopic so reverent of its subject that it might as well be titled The Passion of the Bobby. An amateur golfer who lived from 1902 to 1971, Jones is the only player to ever win all four

Adaptation (2002)

Comedy Rated R

Very clever about being very clever, Adaptation stars Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman – the real-life screenwriter who wrote Adaptation, in which ‘Kaufman’ struggles to adapt a novel into a movie and eventually writes himself into his screenplay. It’s all a hoot for struggling scribes and Hollywood insiders, if ultimately less insightful than Kaufman’s previous

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Drama Rated PG-13

“…a fable for adults.”

Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)

Action/Adventure Rated NR

“One of those old movies that refuses to become musty.

Dead Alive (1992)

Horror Rated R

This early horror comedy from Peter Jackson, also known as Braindead, reveals the director’s gonzo tendencies before he reined them in for the Lord of the Rings films. A mama’s boy (Timothy Balme) finds catering to mommie dearest even harder when she turns into a zombie (now it involves gluing slabs of flesh back onto