Drama Rated R
“Tarantino’s definitive film, if not his best.”
“…far more thrilling before it turns into a thriller.
Drama Rated PG-13
“…honest enough not to deliver that climactic, ‘breakthrough’ moment.
Drama Rated PG
Yet another based-on-fact, inspirational sports movie, Pride has only one mission: to hit, note for note, every formulaic moment in the genre. Based on the life of Jim Ellis, who in 1973 founded a black swim team in one of Philadelphia’s poorest neighborhoods, the movie tells us nothing about Ellis or the kids he worked
“…accomplishes what many fact-based biopics fail to do. The picture gives us a sense of someone’s full, lived life.
Inoffensively sentimental, the Scotland-set Dear Frankie follows a single mother (Emily Mortimer) who is trying to keep her 9-year-old son from the harsh truth about his missing father by claiming he works on a ship that is always off on far-flung journeys. When the boy starts pushing for answers, she hires a stranger (Gerard Butler)
Full Frontal represents the first time you know from the start you’re watching a Steven Soderbergh film, and that’s not necessarily a good thing. Like the eclectic filmmaker’s breakthrough debut, 1989’s Sex, Lies and Videotape, this low-budget ensemble effort follows a bunch of 30-somethings (Blair Underwood and Julia Roberts among them) yammering about their love
You may go into Hanging Up expecting to laugh, but don’t be surprised to come out of the theater in tears – and cheap ones at that. Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow and Diane Keaton star as sisters who are caring for their ailing father (Walter Matthau), but the movie bypasses any interplay between the three
A provocative showcase for the underappreciated talents of Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense), this follows an Australian geologist (Collette) who gets stuck chaperoning a Japanese businessman (Gotaro Tsunashima) through the Outback. Australian director Sue Brooks clearly is influenced by her regional predecessors. Her landscapes echo the ghostly atmosphere of Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock,
Pulsing with gung-ho machismo, the Desert Storm war drama Jarhead is like having one of those manly energy drinks injected right into your veins. There is a conscience to be found beneath the bravado, but it is the grunting that wins out. In the movie, the American soldiers get juiced up by watching various war
