Comedy Rated R
"McBride is yet another walking epithet you simply want to get away from."
Romantic Comedy Rated PG-13
Jennifer Garner plays a gawky adolescent who magically turns 30 after making a wish on her 13th birthday, but she’s also turned into a petty and shallow woman. Could a reunion with her formerly sloppy friend from junior high (Mark Ruffalo) help her reclaim her youthful innocence? This is more of a romance than its
Horror Rated R
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Thriller Rated PG-13
“…a marketing hook first and a movie … well, actually, never.
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
A thriller that can’t decide who the bad guy should be: the upscale urbanites (Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid) who buy a country estate for cheap or the working-class former owner (Stephen Dorff) who couldn’t make his mortgage payments. As their showdown grows increasingly ridiculous, eventually resembling the intelligence of a Friday the 13th flick,
Drama Rated PG-13
Filmmaker John Sayles (Lone Star, Limbo) – who finds movies in towns where the rest of us find a place to fill up on gas – depicts a coastal Florida community weathering a storm of real estate development. The standout of the ensemble cast is Edie Falco of “The Sopranos,” a constant surprise as a
Drama Rated R
Another pointless Hollywood remake of a foreign film that was just fine to begin with, this updates the 2000 Argentinian con-man drama Nine Queens with half the panache and none of the surprise of the original. John C. Reilly steps out of character-actor status as the lead, a middle-aged grifter who teams up with a
This wants to be a grown-up romance – there is much angst about sex and bad breakups and the like – but Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet keep the movie on the level of puppy love. Both can be found at the buy-a-star store in the aisle labeled “cute,” which makes sitting through their movie
When a modern cop (Jim Caviezel) hooks up an old ham radio, he’s somehow able to communicate back in time with his late firefighting father (Dennis Quaid). They change history in order to save the father from a fire, but their alterations inadvertently set a serial killer loose. If you take a deep breath and