Drama Rated R
“…a deeply myopic view of the world, one focused through a distinctly – and distorted – American lens.”
Comedy Rated PG-13
Writer-director-star Christopher Guest reteams with much of his Waiting for Guffman cast for another mock documentary, this time about a series of dog lovers whose reasons for being revolve around a canine competition. This is missing the empathy that made Guffman such an affecting farce, but you’ll still laugh the whole way through.
Comedy Rated R
If you have a high tolerance for wisecracks about condoms or crucifixes (there’s actually more of the latter), then this slight sex comedy might grow on you. Josh Hartnett plays a ladies man who makes a vow of chastity for Lent. If he and Shannyn Sossamon, as his potential soul mate, have an ingratiating chemistry,
Spike Lee’s provocative if problematic chronicling of the last day in the life of a convicted drug dealer (Edward Norton) before he’s sent to prison. The movie proceeds with a gripping sense of dread, even if it never quite comes into focus. Especially arbitrary are intermittent homages to a post-Sept. 11, 2001, New York. Lee
Horror Rated R
London has succumbed to a virus that turns anyone infected into a homicidal maniac. Almost everyone has been wiped out – except for a hospitalized bicycle courier (Cillian Murphy) who awakens from a weeks-long coma to find his world irrevocably changed. With his thrilling revisionist zombie movie, director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, The Beach) suggests civilization
Drama Rated PG-13
To get the most out of a movie by M. Night Shyamalan you have to meet the filmmaker halfway. A convoluted fairy tale that makes a few crucial missteps, Lady in the Water requires more work than most of his films, yet if you give it a chance you’ll be able to appreciate the film
Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s working with a decent story this time around – he plays a helicopter pilot in the near future who’s illegally cloned – but he’s a long way from the cutting-edge special effects of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (that’s what happens when you lose your box-office clout and studios refuse to give you blockbuster
A dramatization of Eminem’s early days in Detroit, 8 Mile doesn’t justify the hateful violence in the rapper’s lyrics, but its depiction of his bleak background helps you understand where that rage comes from. As an impoverished factory worker struggling to make a name for himself in the hip-hop scene, Eminem doesn’t rap so much
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
There are at least 16 ways the pressure-cooker situation at the center of 16 Blocks could be defused, but most of those would negate the movie’s reason for being: to pair aging action star Bruce Willis with rising talent Mos Def in a claustrophobic thriller plot. That plot is a series of contrivances, absurdities and