Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
“There is a breath of fresh air amidst the deadening gunplay…
Family Rated PG
“A wonder in the way 13-year-old girls can be: monstrous one moment, heart-melting the next.”
Thriller Rated PG-13
Remember that photo of Richard Reid, in which the would-be terrorist looked like he wouldn’t be able to light a cigarette, let alone a shoe bomb? Those are the kind of bad guys who drive the plot of Red Eye, in which a woman on a plane falls victim to an imbecilic hostage/blackmail/assassination scheme. Going
Hardly a mind-blowing piece of science fiction, Red Planet still entertains as an outer space version of television’s “Survivor.” After five men crash-land on Mars, they engage in a series of wily tactics, machinations and double-crosses that eventually result in only one of them returning to Earth.
Drama Rated NR
The Criterion Collection releases a new DVD of what may be the definitive Technicolor movie.
Drama Rated PG
“…evokes, in its primeval beauty, something of a seaside Garden of Eden.”
Horror Rated R
Here’s where Hannibal Lecter officially transforms from pop icon to camp figure. This blatant exercise in Hollywood opportunism – Thomas Harris’ book was already adapted in 1986 as Manhunter – never has a chance thanks to Anthony Hopkins’ self-parodying performance. The only thing left for Hopkins now is to hit dinner theaters reciting the bad
Comedy Rated R
“Rex delivers an unequivocally great comic performance.”
Drama Rated R
“Is faith a saving grace or a swindle?”
“Boyega gives the somewhat routine proceedings a jolt of magnetic star power.”