Michael Caine gives his most restrained, intense performance yet as British newspaper correspondent Thomas Fowler in Philip Noyce’s restrained, intense adaptation of the Graham Greene novel about love and war in 1950s Vietnam.
Director Bryan Singer and his cast of superheroes return for another mutant extravaganza. As the law of sequels demands, this one just takes everything that worked in the original and adds more of the same. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but is doesn’t make for a very coherent story.
The Marvel Comics heroes are given a reverent but somber film treatment by Bryan Singer. Good enough to make you hope the sequel will be better.
A small gem of a film which subtly examines the way a brother and sister deal with the loss of their parents. Full, wonderful performances all around, particularly from Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo.
Simple, charming coming-of-age story about two adolescent boys on a road trip with one of those screenwriter fantasy women who seem to exist solely to open the boys’ minds to sex.
Director-star Takeshi ‘Beat’ Kitano updates the famed 60s story of the blind swordsman with some over-the-top CGI violence and a Clint Eastwood attitude. The result meanders, but provides a few exciting moments.
Vin Diesel teams up again with director Rob Cohen to re-invent James Bond as (even more of) a video game movie for the ‘Xtreme’ generation. The action comes fast and furious and goes just as quickly.
This proudly preposterous noisemaker fails even by the low standards set by its predecessor.
What’s left if you remove all subtlty, joy and wit from Douglas Adams’ wonderfully whimsical ‘trilogy in five parts?’ This big, noisy mess of a movie.
There are about one and a half good moments in this almost unwatchably cutesy tapestry of tales from writer-director Richard Curtis. It’s disappointing, actually.
