Espionage interlaced with education. A range of Muslim beliefs and attitudes emerges in the course of an FBI crackdown on a terrorist network. Fiercely acted by all concerned (Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Saïd Taghmaoui, Neal McDonough, Jeff Daniels), but rather frivolously resolved, and the camera is prone to excitability at …
The My Cousin Vinny director, Jonathan Lynn, returns to the courtroom, in quest of something other than truth and justice. Michael Richards is amusing enough as an unemployed actor obliged, for unswallowable reasons, to bluff his way through a Podunk criminal proceeding as an imposter defense attorney. (He exhibits no …
For display only, a discordant arrangement of florid characters in a studiedly "cool" crime comedy: a couple of professional hitmen, one psychopathic, the other oversensitive about his hair loss; a couple of vice cops, one burnt-out, the other aspiring to Homicide; a Winter Olympics also-ran; a suicidal Emmy winner with …
The Local-Girl-Made-Good is about to return to Clyde, Ohio, and everyone's in a tizzy: the house she was born in is pronounced an Historical Site, a ball is planned, and so on and so on. Malicious small-town satire sweetened with sympathy for the high-school weirdo who doesn't fit in. Winona …