A grim family tragedy set in the aftermath of the sexual revolution. Kevin Kline plays a philandering husband and father in 1973 Connecticut who trudges halfheartedly through an affair with his neighbor (Sigourney Weaver). Meanwhile, his daughter (Christina Ricci) begins exploring sex for herself with the neighbor’s two sons. With key parties and the Nixon

One of those erotic dramas that actually works better as a video touting abstinence. The sex is that soulless, that dingy, that diseased. Based on the life of John Wilmot, an English earl renowned in the late 1600s for his satirical plays and salacious personal life, this even manages to make Johnny Depp look icky

Surpassing his own Taxi Driver in execution and theme, director Martin Scorsese revisits the mean streets of New York – this time behind the wheel with Nicolas Cage’s strung-out ambulance paramedic – to see just how bad things can get before a chance at redemption runs out. The result is a gorgeous nightmare about what

Director Robert Altman’s scathing, somewhat sterile look at the English aristocracy circa 1932, all filtered through the conventions of a murder mystery. As a collection of ladies and gentlemen gather for a hunting party on a lavish country estate, we follow them and their maids, valets and footmen through a weekend of pomp and circumstance

A slick gangster wants to make a few more big bucks and then get out of the game, but his boss has other ideas. Sound familiar? It’s all too familiar in this British import, despite a high-strung lead performance from Daniel Craig. Director Matthew Vaughn furiously tries to develop his own style here, but it

Just the sort of noble bore Oscar usually loves, this latest two-hour-plus tale from director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) stars Jim Carrey as a blacklisted screenwriter who develops amnesia and is mistaken for a small-town hero lost in World War II. Darabont and Carrey are trying to whip up some sort

Brutal and honest, The Patriot certainly is a rousing celebration of American independence, but the movie is more valuable as a rumination on vengeance and violence. When Mel Gibson’s pacifist farmer forms a militia against the British to avenge an attack on his family, far more than a Rambo revenge fantasy follows. Instead, The Patriot

Joan Allen acts up a storm as Terry, an abandoned wife and mother of four daughters, but thankfully it is of the authentic, rather than Oscar-baiting, variety. Kevin Costner also makes a welcome appearance as a retired baseball player who lives in the neighborhood and becomes Terry’s drinking buddy. The movie tiptoes between tragedy and

The Woodsman humanizes an inhuman problem – that of pedophilia – thanks mainly to a coiled performance by Kevin Bacon. As a convicted child molester just released from prison, Bacon taps into his character’s sickness and self-hatred with such intensity that he elicits something you would think impossible: sympathy.

It’s appropriate that Stick It even has a title that sneers, for watching the movie is like spending an hour supervising detention. Missy Peregrym plays a former gymnastics star who has rebelled into the tomboy world of bike tricks. After her latest stunt, a judge orders her to attend a strict gymnastics academy. The gimmick