Comedy, Drama Rated R
“…ranks among Lee’s best work.”
Horror Rated R
“…moves from early scenes of social discomfort to a finale full of Grand Guignol violence and gore.”
Drama Rated PG-13
The cast is the best thing in Get Low, a jerry-built period piece about forgiveness that stars – thankfully – Robert Duvall and Bill Murray. Duvall has the lead role of Felix Bush, a hermit in 1930s Tennessee who suddenly waltzes into town and announces that he wants to throw a funeral party for himself
Comedy Rated R
“There are a lot of illegal drugs in Get Him to the Greek, and the movie itself sort of works like one.
Drama Rated R
I don’t usually fall for it when an actor or actress deglams – when they get scruffy and ugly onscreen in hopes of winning an award. Yet Anne Hathaway redeems the practice in Rachel Getting Married. Hathaway doesn’t really hide her beauty here, as, say, Angelina Jolie did in A Mighty Heart or Charlize Theron
If you’re building a rags-to-riches gangster-rap drama around a real rags-to-riches gangster rapper, it might be a good idea to showcase the music that is supposed to distinguish him from every other boy in the hood that the movies have given us since, well, 1991’s Boyz N the Hood. Get Rich, loosely based on the
“Is it overboard to consider the Tyler Perry phenomenon a cult?
Comedy Rated PG-13
“Wait until you see the look of chagrin on Carell’s face when he holds a shoe phone to his ear.
Romantic Comedy Rated PG-13
How does Frances (Diane Lane), the divorced heroine of Under the Tuscan Sun, get her groove back? By buying an Italian villa on a whim and renovating it all on her own. Based on the novel by Frances Mayes, the movie is as soft and reassuring as a romantic comedy gets yet it has plenty
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