What would you do if you only had a week to live? What would you do if you had to watch yet another movie based on that premise? The latter question is the more pertinent one when it comes to this half-baked drama. The movie is supposed to follow Seattle television reporter Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina

Memoirs of a Geisha wants to be too pretty – with each frame designed for maximum visual appeal, the picture mistakes opulence for importance. It’s like a geisha who is all dressed up with no place to go. Arthur Golden’s 1997 book fleshed out exhaustive research with a Pretty Woman story arc, in which a

This has the ache of real pain, considering writer-director Brad Silberling based the story on the 1989 murder of his girlfriend. The movie follows Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal), whose fiancee is killed on the eve of their wedding. As Joe and the murdered woman’s parents (Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon) try to carry on with

  A disarmingly gentle account of a trip taken by revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal) across South America when he was 22. Directed by Walter Salles, the movie’s politics are subtle – you’d be hard-pressed to draw a line from here to the Cuban Revolution, of which Guevara was an instrumental part –

A somber, dark and artful crime drama set among the New York City subway yards, where the wheels of business turn on corruption and graft. Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron and James Caan each give touching, tragic performances – their characters sigh with regret more than they talk – but it’s Joaquin Phoenix as a bribery

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