Drama Rated R
“Only slightly less religiously tortured than First Reformed…”
Drama Rated PG-13
“…honest enough not to deliver that climactic, ‘breakthrough’ moment.
Family Rated PG
This animated feature scorns both McMansions and suburban sprawl, and mostly will be enjoyed by McMansion-residing suburban sprawlers. That irony is not lost on the filmmakers. As it details the adventures of a pack of woodland creatures (the likes of Garry Shandling, Steve Carell and Wanda Sykes provide pitch-perfect vocals for the rich character animation)
Romantic Comedy Rated PG-13
“…so bland, lifeless and unimaginative I wanted to poke the screen to make sure it was really there.
Junior James Bond Juni Cortez (Daryl Sabara) sets out to rescue his sister (Alexa Vega), who has been trapped inside a virtual-reality video game in the third installment in the endlessly inventive family action series from Robert Rodriguez. This one’s in 3-D, but it didn’t need to be: The awkward glasses and washed out colors
Comedy Rated NR
The only drag comedy we’ll ever really need. When it comes to cross-dressing on screen, the men in women’s clothing almost always seem to be having more fun than the audience, but Some Like it Hot – like so many comedies directed by Billy Wilder – spreads the joy around. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis
This adaptation of the Andre Dubus III novel works itself up into a lather over a story – namely the conflict between a former addict (Jennifer Connelly) who loses her house for not paying taxes and an Iranian immigrant (Ben Kingsley) who buys it – that’s better suited to an episode of “The People’s Court.”
This reworking of It’s a Wonderful Life, in which a Ferrari-driving bachelor (Nicolas Cage) gets to experience how much more fulfilling his life would have been if he’d started a family with his college sweetheart (Tea Leoni), has some respect for the minivan world. Unfortunately, the few moments of truth – particularly Leoni as a
Action/Adventure Rated R
“If you want to make your giant monster movie more of a character study, more power to you, but then the pressure’s on to create some truly captivating characters.”
Horror Rated R
London has succumbed to a virus that turns anyone infected into a homicidal maniac. Almost everyone has been wiped out – except for a hospitalized bicycle courier (Cillian Murphy) who awakens from a weeks-long coma to find his world irrevocably changed. With his thrilling revisionist zombie movie, director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, The Beach) suggests civilization