Despite a stellar performance by Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, the story of Howard Hughes never takes off thanks to a directionless script by Hollywood biopic go-to-guy John Logan and a weak performance by Leonardo DiCaprio as the title. Even director Martin Scorcese is on auto-pilot for this one.
Greg Kinnear gives the performance of his life in Paul Schrader’s brutal biopic of late "Hogan’s Heroes" star Bob Crane.
For better or worse, a worthy addition to Mike Myers’ relentlessly stupid spy franchise, which rests squarely on the shoulders of its lovable and undeniably talented star.
In 1997’s ‘Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,’ writer-star Mike Myers was saddled with the task of creating a 90-minute film based on a one-joke Saturday Night Live character. The catch is that the character in question had never appeared on SNL. What does he do for a follow-up?
Finely crafted thriller with bravura performances all around and an over-the-top, thoroughly ludicrous surprise finale.
Stellar performances from Al Pacino and Jamie Foxx can’t save Oliver Stone’s testosterone-fueled, overlong, would-be morality play from lacking a point.
Relentlessly silly but not quite funny parody of 70s network news never quite lives up to its promise. As always, Will Ferrell gives it his all, and Steve Carell’s every moment is hilarious.
Robert De Niro playing a mobster again? You must be joking! Well, in fact, this time he is.
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s directorial debut interweaves three stories that get less and less interesting as the overlong movie rolls on. Two of the three (all revolving around a horrific car accident) are interesting enough to hold a movie, but putting them together adds little to each except time.
While I can’t claim to be an authority on the facts of the real life events that inspired the book, or the previous three films to bear its title, it seems that this remake is less about generating any real thrills and more about scaring up a quick buck.
