<P>Kung Fu Panda adopts a different, less zany tone than one might expect from a movie with that title, especially considering that Jack Black has been brought on board to provide the lead voice. While it would be unfair to say that the movie d… [详细内容]
<P> Just in time for Valentine's Day, "50 First Dates" is a spin on the "Groundhog Day" notion of a day that keeps repeating itself. This time, though, the recycling takes place entirely inside the mind of Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore), who wa… [详细内容]
<P>Not a lot is known about 17th-century painter Johannes Vermeer, except that he died in early middle age, leaving 11 surviving children and 35 paintings that have survived into the 21st century. One of those paintings, "Girl with a Pearl Earr… [详细内容]
<P>With its fifth cinematic outing, the Harry Potter film series has ascended to another level. In addition to providing a self-contained, well-paced adventure, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix also begins to coalesce the epic ether th… [详细内容]
<P>Melanie is a top-notch senior and aspiring lawyer, who successfully defends the Big Bad Wolf against Three Little Piggy plaintiffs in a mock trial at school. She can't wait for the good-time rite of passage she has truly earned: a girls-only… [详细内容]
<P>An operatic tale of high school football, racial integration and young men's passions, "Remember the Titans" is a Hollywood movie Sen. Joseph Lieberman could love (and probably will). Taken on its own terms, it's an agreeable entertainment, … [详细内容]
<P>At last the full arc is visible, and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy comes into final focus. I admire it more as a whole than in its parts. The second film was inconclusive, and lost its way in the midst of spectacle. But "Return of the King… [详细内容]
<P>The title alone begs derision: Must Love Dogs? If this film is included in that canine category, one can only demur. If not for the talent and natural charisma of its star, Diane Lane, this would be an entirely worthless enterprise.</P>
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<P>Marvel's "Sorcerer Supreme" Doctor Strange is its latest comic character to be given a feature-length animated outing with an origins story packed with detail, but lacking in depth. Gifted surgeon Stephen Strange is left bitter and dejected … [详细内容]
<P>movie critics who complain about the movies' pop bastardization of literature have to tread a thin, tricky line. Sometimes the pleasure that a movie adaptation delivers may have next to nothing to do with its source. I adore Carol Reed's mus… [详细内容]
<P>"Last Holiday" is a movie that takes advantage of the great good nature and warmth of Queen Latifah, and uses it to transform a creaky old formula into a comedy that is just plain lovable. To describe the plot is to miss the point, because t… [详细内容]
<P>William Wyler was not just one of the most important directors in American movie history; he was at various times the most controversial as well. His notoriety did not have the contemporary ingredients of or politics. Rather, there were rag… [详细内容]
<P>Daniela Denby-Ashe plays Margaret Hale who is a gentleman’s daughter from southern England. Her father makes an independent decision to change his career path and abruptly moves the family to the northern industrial town of Milton. They pac… [详细内容]
<P>Nothing says Christmas like the Christmas cancer movie, but perhaps because sturdy American values have been in decline for a while now, several years have passed since we've had one. The wait is over: Rob Reiner's "The Bucket List," in whic… [详细内容]
<P>A delightfully enchanting family fantasy, "A Little Princess" has all the earmarks of a classic, and one can only hope it doesn't get blown out of the water by the big-budget blockbusters it is going up against.The basis is the same children… [详细内容]