The perception exists that women’s sports still have a purity to them, an emphasis on teamwork and fundamentals that is lacking from the individualistic, highlight reel-driven world of men’s competition. The Heart of the Game, a documentary that follows a Seattle-area girl’s high school basketball program, punctures a hole in that myth. Selfishness, trash-talking, clashing

Dippy and dull, this look at the evolution of life on earth feels as if the New Agey art teacher took over science class. Actually, the movie isn’t even that interesting. Some fascinating close-up footage of bugs and such reveal Genesis to be the work of the filmmakers behind 1996’s Microcosmos, but beyond that we

An unabashed act of nostalgia, this film-buff documentary celebrates the movies of the 1970s as the pinnacle of American cinema. Co-directors Richard LaGravenese and Ted Demme bring a fan’s passion to the subject, along with a fan’s narrow perspective. The ’70s have long been cited as a turning point for American movies, a time of

The use of 3-D technology gives an extra kick to the archival photographs on display, but the rest of this 1998 Imax film is a forced, unfocused attempt to interweave a biography of Mark Twain with American history. As writer-director-producer Stephen Low scrambles for material, the movie begins to resemble a last-minute school report more

There’s mostly hot air in this sanitized tribute to Jordan’s last playoff run. The basketball scenes actually suffer from the IMAX format (the camera is shoved in so close that you’re suffocating in Jordan’s jersey) and the interview segments seem to have come out of a focus group made up of Jordan and his agent.

An embarrassing vanity project, this was an attempt by Martin Lawrence to re-establish his credibility after various run-ins with the law. Opening with a shameless career tribute and consisting mainly of a crude, witless standup routine, the whole thing eventually becomes so self-pitying I almost expected there to be a collection taken for the comedian