Pleasantly spooky debut from director Juan Antonio Bayona proves that even the oldest horror movie clich??s are still effective in the right hands.
Mike Nichols’ cheeky film about the Texas Congressman who helped fund the Afghan army tells one side of an important story. And it tells it well, thanks to an A-list cast and Aaron Sorkin’s typically zingy script.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s overlong Upton Sinclair adaptation is nearly worth seeing solely for Daniel Day-Lewis’s unforgettable performance. Nearly.
In Rob Reiner’s first tolerable (read: not excruciating) film in eons, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play two cancer-struck men who get busy living in their final moments.
Superlative fright-fest featuring Will Smith at the top of his game as the last human survivor in a Manhattan full of night-dwelling mutants.
Raunchy, often hysterical parody of overplayed musical biopics ironically sags just when its targets do but hits several right notes thanks to the sturdy presence of John C. Reilly as a none-too-subtle riff on the Man in Black.
There’s more than enough blood, guts and yes, glory to go around in Tim Burton’s masterful big-screen spin of the culty musical “Sweeney Todd.” The results? To die for.
Director Joe Wright’s core-shaking romantic epic makes all the right moves and has something for just about everyone. Finally, a new love story worth falling in love with.
Writer-director Chris Weitz winnows down Philip Pullman’s dense, unwieldy universe into a zippy, if not entirely thrilling, two hours.
Frank Langella is superb in this modest, awkwardly-titled indie about an aging writer and the grad student researching him.
