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
Director Tim Burton took a breather after Batman with this personal effort, perhaps the cinema’s most enchanting parable about the misunderstood and alienated artist. The title character, played by Johnny Depp, is the nearly completed creation of an inventor (Vincent Price) who lives in a castle perched atop a cookie-cutter subdivision. When the inventor suddenly
“…generates some low-key Before Sunrise vibes.”