A sitcom striving to be a soap opera: two women become friends before they find out that one of them is the mistress of the other one's husband. Certainly the scene of outright farce when the members of the romantic triangle first come together in one spot, with consequent stumbles …
Copycat thriller: part Silence of the Lambs (Ed Harris in the Anthony Hopkins role), part In the Heat of the Night (Northern cosmopolite nosing into a cracker backwater, with the racial roles reversed), part Cape Fear (lawyer's wife and daughter imperilled by a past client). It's all done by rote, …
Broad comedy about a high-school fatso who slims down to become a callous Casanova in adulthood. Unlike him, the humor never slims down, remains broad throughout; heavy; clumsy; lazy. With Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, and Chris Klein; directed by Roger Kumble.
A retired F.B.I. Agent (Tommy Lee Jones) and an ex-mob lawyer (Morgan Freeman) work together to fend off a mob hit. The trailer had geezer porn written all over it until the name of eminently qualified writer/director Ron Shelton (The Best of Times, Cobb) turned up in the credits. Count …
Did you like Joss Whedon’s The Avengers? Then you’ll love, or at least maybe be able to mostly tolerate, Justice League, and not just because Whedon helped out with the script and direction. (Don’t worry, though: Zack Snyder still leaves his gritty, operatic fingerprints on the project, especially early on.) …
This film is rated PG. That means "Parental Guidance is suggested." Please, parents — guide your children.
The story of a man who sought to forgive the man who killed his family.
Unremittingly cute, and on a couple of occasions actually funny, this supernatural romantic comedy adds a new wrinkle to the conventional ghost story, and new rules (anything goes) into the bargain. The new wrinkle is that the previous tenant who haunts a breathtaking San Francisco apartment as an intermittent apparition, …
Documentary that features firsthand accounts featuring ten brave kids, two award winning journalists, one clinical psychologist, and one determined mother take on the social shame and stigma linked to anxiety disorders and depression.
Myopic, borderline xenophobic romantic comedy about a couple of blissfully self-obsessed young Americans -- Ashton Kutcher, a name that sticks in your teeth if not in your memory, and Brittany Murphy and her upturned nose and her upturned lip -- on a European "honeymoon from hell." Directed by Shawn Levy.
Alabama logging worker Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx) looks skyward towards the gap left by a recently felled tree, never dreaming of the hole in his life this foreshadowing shot would come to represent. McMillian fit the M.O. of a scapegoat, and he was wrongfully sentenced to death for killing Ronda …
Accursed fantasy (bad acting, writing, directing, lighting, taste, everything) about a charmed career girl who exchanges fortunes, when she exchanges saliva, with a luckless stranger on the dance floor at a masquerade ball. With Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Faizon Love, Missi Pyle, Samaire Armstrong, and Bree Turner (she's not bad, …
Hard-shell romantic comedy about a billionaire wheeler-dealer (Alan King, who throws a good tantrum or two or three) and a gold-digging careerist (Ali MacGraw). They are both represented as having genuine feelings for one another, while the viewer is asked to have none for them. This situation ought to loosen …