Unusual animated fable – about a courageous mouse that saves a kingdom – suffers from an over-abundance of story but has its heart in the right place.
A family is up against it in this Christmas tale of hope and despair that manages to rise above mediocrity.
David Fincher’s wildly overlong adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story misses a key point from its source material: the story should be a short one.
Alarmingly dull reinvention of the 1951 sci-fi classic replaces the Cold War-era threat of Communism with the contemporary threat of environmental disaster.
Kate Winslet and Leo DiCaprio play married folks leading lives of not-so-quiet desperation in this commanding, suburban drama.
A mysteriously troubled woman who has been away for years arrives at her sister’s home and we gradually learn what has come before.
Lust between a teenage boy and an older woman evolves into a wannabe political blockbuster. They should have stuck to the sex.
A young boy in post-war Germany has a torrid affair with an older woman, only to find out years later that she’s a Nazi war criminal, in director Stephen Daldry’s overwrought adaptation of the Bernhard Schlink novel.
Disproving the old adage “Third time’s the charm”, this mess doesn’t even deserve a straight-to-video release.
Ron Howard’s nail-biting drama “Frost/Nixon” packs a mean political punch.
