A disturbingly even-handed portrait of pedophilia in suburbia, Director Michael Cuesta’s difficult film only cops out when it tries to find an easy ending.
How can a movie with so much going for it (Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, eleven novels of material) be so boring? Only the over-the-top performance by Mr. Carrey as Count Olaf (among others) breathes life into what is otherwise a dreary, bleak, dull exercise in production design.
Filmed in 1994, this Jackie Chan vehicle features the martial arts master at 40 and still at his best. If you have never seen a Jackie Chan movie, this one will show you what all the fuss is about.
Another golf-as-metaphor-for-life movie, this time with Will Smith as a magic caddy. Directed very seriously by Robert Redford.
Even Reese Witherspoon’s smile and an equally bright waredrobe can’t save this schmaltz-fest which actually buys into its own rehashed ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ plot.
You gotta hand it to Reese Witherspoon. I can’t think of many actresses who could carry a movie whose only attribute is its own vacuousness. She nearly does it.
Shockingly awful, insultingly stupid adaptation of the graphic novel which sees a group of literary characters team up for…oh, never mind.
Robert Redford and James Gandolfini dodge, parry and nearly carry Rod Lurie’s tense but weightless prison drama.
‘Speed’ director Jan De Bont seems to have lost the ability to intelligently direct an action scene, but Angelina Jolie’s wardrobe alone almost makes this mediocre ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ clone worth watching. Almost.
Dull even as a video game adaptation and remarkable solely for the fact that Angelina Jolie looks disturbingly like computer-generated heroine Lara Croft, this is a ‘Tomb’ with a view…and not much else.
