Drama Rated PG-13
“…a Hanks performance where there isn’t much surprise in those kindly eyes.”
Nothing new for writer-director Terrence Malick (Badlands, The Thin Red Line), whose pet subject – mankind’s despoiling of an Edenic setting – is here transferred to the legend of John Smith (Colin Farrell) and Pocahontas (Q’Orianka Kilcher). The tale may be perfectly suited to Malick’s languorous cinematography and portentous voice-over narration, but by now these
Drama Rated R
“…interested in all the complication and resignation that comes with being an actual adult.”
The same problems I had with E. Annie Proulx’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel – an inert main character, an overdone sense of misery – aren’t solved in this adaptation, which stars Kevin Spacey as a dull doormat who starts a new life in his ancestral home of Newfoundland after the death of his poisonously vindictive wife.
Comedy Rated G
“A screwball-oddball comedy that deserves far more attention than it gets…”
“Martin Scorsese’s Les Miserables.”
A hack’s Heathers, New Best Friend follows a college wallflower (Mia Kirshner) who is introduced by three party girls into a world of sex, drugs and bad dance music. Laughably amateurish, the movie boasts robotic performances, a barely there plot and sex scenes that give off more desperation than heat.
Comedy Rated PG-13
Billy Bob Thornton takes over for Walter Matthau from the 1976 original film as the shiftless coach of an inept youth baseball team, but he’s not into not being into it. That’s odd, for the actor’s commitment to crude sluggishness is what made Bad Santa such a success. Bad News Bears clearly means to capitalize
Documentary Rated NR
“…an audacious, brilliant reinvention of what a movie can be.”
Family Rated G
There’s no rousing musical score, star-studded vocal cast or groundbreaking animation in this Disney fable about an emperor who has been turned into a llama. But aside from the subpar visuals, the movie does not suffer as a result. Without the weight of a blockbuster tag, The Emperor’s New Groove is freed from the Disney