Drama Rated R
“…a female-made romance that largely takes the male’s point of view.
“…you’d learn almost as much about Lavoe and his sound if you watch Walk the Line or Ray.
Drama Rated PG
This adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan stars Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson in roles that beg to be flip-flopped. Hunt plays Mrs. Erlynne, a serial seducer of other women’s husbands in the 1930s, while Johansson plays Meg Windermere, a naive newlywed whose groom is in danger of become Mrs. Erlynne’s next target. Hunt
There’s a constant low rumble throughout The Grey Zone – a sobering drama about the Sonderkommando, teams of Jewish prisoners who helped the Nazis usher new arrivals into the gas chambers in exchange for better living conditions – and at first you assume the noise is coming from the constantly burning crematoriums located underground. Then
Drama Rated NR
“The cinema through Rosebud-colored glasses.”
A movie of epic proportions told on a personal scale, My Family follows three generations of Mexican-Americans living in L.A.’s East Side. Director and cowriter Gregory Nava uses the Sanchez family itself as the movie’s protagonist, and the result is a full-bodied portrait of an entire clan. That said, special notice should go to Jimmy
Drama Rated PG-13
It may be true that the best movie romances are always bittersweet, but this Clint Eastwood effort goes so far beyond bittersweet it’s downright depressing. Based on Robert James Waller’s best-seller, the movie traces a four-day affair between a National Geographic photographer on assignment (Eastwood) and an unsatisfied Iowa housewife (Meryl Streep, breathing real life
As Kate Armstrong, a no-nonsense chef at a chic New York restaurant, Catherine Zeta-Jones crimps her lips and fastidiously straightens her apron, yet the mannerisms come off as yet another contrivance in a picture full of them. Equally annoying is Aaron Eckhart as Kate’s new sous chef. Blaring opera in the kitchen and talking to
“…only captivates when Forman and his production designers echo some of the painter’s more famous tableaus.
"…focuses on a pervert who thinks he’s a romantic. The more sincere this guy gets about his leering, the more he creeps you out."
