17th Century blogger Samuel Pepys called stage actor Edward Kynaston 'the loveliest lady that ever I saw'. Ned Kynaston's career playing women ended abruptly when King Charles II decreed that women,... 
Miramax's remake of their 1996 Japanese import Shall We Dance is ostensibly about romance and magic but actually about maximum exploitation of the property, done up in all the Hollywood trimmings. Ri... 
Red Lights bristles with subcutaneous fear at signals which Hollywood thrillers routinely run. 
Tarnation is some kind of triumph of personal expression [but] also maddening at times in Caouette's lack of restraint...defiantly [is] what it is: one of a kind. 
Is the fish fresh?...Shark Tale believes it can foist off high-speed energy in the place of wit. 
Conventional, lacking in depth, and reliant on the artifical tension of action scenes to goose along an otherwise watchable but dull movie. 
Elicits a palpable emotional and intellectual effect...strikes the same sad note of discord thirty years later. 
World War II and its attendant local metaphors serve as MacGuffins for a quiet tale of two people, if only Trojan would keep his focus on them. 
Though you might think this Forest Whitaker film (yeah, you read that right) has more going for it than the other 274 cookie-cutter fairy-tale comedies...you'd be wrong. 
Takes apart conservative middle-class society by opening the floodgates of sexual desire...a non-stop cavalcade of fetishes, novelty songs, and bawdy slang. 
The generic parallel plots of sports-movie suspense and falling-in-love sap squeeze stars Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst together like so much peanut butter and jelly. 
Though the exercise is ultimately empty, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow must be seen to be disbelieved, so off you go. 
Bernie Mac's...vehicle may be more like an Acura than a Porsche, but it gets decent mileage out of its mildly funny character comedy. 
We here at New Line Cellular...have the plan for you!...92 inflexible real-time minutes that are sure to pump up your fast-paced, action-packed lifestyle. 
Flashes of wit [aside]...flimsy narration and flaccid acting (particularly from Townsend in a central role) do nothing to bolster this well-intentioned but forgettable film. 
With apologies to Joe Bob...Countless dead bodies. Six breasts...Beer-swilling cowboy zombie-sniper. Demon dogs...Gratuitous accents...Graveyard Fu... 
The absurdist staging suggests a kind of magic surrealism; Miike literally turns homosexual panic inside out. 
Roughly equivalent to the Matrix sequels: drama-starved dazzle and irresolute interrogation. 
Taking a cue from Thackeray's spry, witty, self-referential narration, Indian director Nair emphasizes the allusions to her native country...as a land of exotic escape... 
Easy come, easy go...has the right satirical snap, energetic pace, and likeable performances to stay consistently amusing. 
By the end, those who haven't seen Nine Queens may applaud the entertaining sleight-of-hand...those who have may lament that Criminal is the proverbial old dog. 
A sleazy thriller which takes celebrity photo hounds to task for being sleazy...As in Gibson's...Payback, and others, the evil-doers must pay, Old Testament-style... 
Fearless extremity...Brotherhood finally coalesces into an inescapable metaphor illustrating the madness of civil war. 
An interesting formal exercise: exceedingly hard to swallow, but quietly engrossing...deserves style points for sticking to an unconventional narrative. 
Perhaps it's all in the translation, but Yes Nurse! No Nurse! makes only a so-so musical...[enhanced by] campy, candy-colored design... 
Von Trotta's conceptual successes rarely translate into dramatic ones...Nevertheless, Von Trotta makes her points...while illuminating a subcultural story of the Holocaust. 
Estes's film casts prismatic light on the persistent issues of bullying, youth violence, and their mortal and emotional consequences. 
Plays like a David Lynch movie thwarted by studio-mandated rewrites and...executives hoping for another Se7en but willing to settle for another Taking Lives. 
Cogent...this too-rare piece of skeptical journalism may play a significant role in our consideration of this moment in history. 
Documentarian Rick McKay embarks, likeably, on a fool's errand in his film Broadway: The Golden Age—By the Legends Who Were There. To attempt to encapsulate the best years of Broadway into a 11... 
Good intentions aside, the return of writer-director-producer Joe Camp's "Benji" is terminally boring. 
A well-meaning, half-hour Twilight Zone episode stretched to the outer limits of a two-hour feature. 
The United States of Leland has a puppy-dog sincerity and an I.Q. to match. This star-studded indie—which juggles Kevin Spacey, Ryan Gosling, Jena Malone, Don Cheadle, Chris Klein, Michelle Wil... 
In his fluffily entertaining but sketch-thin comedy-of-hazing The Terminal, Steven Spielberg accounts for America in binary code: America is oppression and freedom, exclusion and inclusion, stamps an... 
Paul McGuigan's The Reckoning amounts to exactly as much as the sum of its parts. Though some of the numbers in this equation are irrational, the parts are generally good. Unfortunately, McGuigan sho... 
Toy tiaras for orphans! (the first one's always free)...Another day, another dollar for Disney's lucrative business of breeding...ever-longing dream princesses. 
The Prince and Me appears to be one of those rare films by which a thoughtful director takes a stereotypical, obvious screenplay and tweaks it into a look at the enduring archetypes we could not shak... 
In a few hours, the man's career will be over. As he packs up his office, he looks over the photos again—photos of a young, energetic man broadly grinning. The man is a police detective being... 
Apparently, Hollywood knows two things about teens: they hate the SAT and they love The Matrix. Thus, we have The Perfect Score, an SAT-panic movie in which six teens conspire to steal the test (but... 
The Notebook, based on Nicholas Sparks's best-selling novel, is almost good enough to bypass its own shortcomings and become a romantic-weepie classic...almost. Its parallel romantic plots, in past a... 