<P>`The Illusionist is the kind of film that could too easily get lost in the summertime crowd, which is a shame because it's a lot a fun - an infectious mix of romance, mystery, and magic. Filmmaker Neil Burger (Interview with an Assassin), ad… [详细内容]
<P>If there’s one thing that’s clear from this revue of ABBA’s hit songs, it’s that there really aren’t all that many great ABBA songs, hits or no. “Dancing Queen,” sure, and “Take a Chance on Me” are pretty catchy, I’ll grant, and ma… [详细内容]
<P>The biopic genre has taken a critical and commercial drubbing of late, what with Sofia Coppola's Elle-magazine version of Marie Antoinette and Steven Shainberg's egregiously misconceived Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus. Sadly, the … [详细内容]
<P>Martian Child wants to make us cry. It nearly made me gag. This is an exercise in shameless and inept emotional manipulation. The film doesn't try to hide what it's doing. If you don't cry, it hasn't worked. There's not a single genuine huma… [详细内容]
While shooting Pretty Persuasion, Thirteen star Evan Rachel Wood was said by the crew to be “a teenage version of Nicole Kidman in To Die For”. And with good reason. A slender, frosty and pathologically ambitious high-schooler who is fully aw… [详细内容]
<P>Ernst Lubitsch, Hollywood's master of sophisticated comedy in the continental manner, surprised movie audiences with The Shop Around the Corner (1940), a sentimental, homespun story of combative coworkers in a Budapest leather-goods store wh… [详细内容]
<P>Who knew gymnastics was so counterculture?</P>
<P>I pose this question as a joke, of course, though there's always been something different and, dare I say, weird about female competitive gymnastics. Those hard-nosed, nutty coaches; those … [详细内容]
<P>"Around the Bend" feels as if it were written in the immediate aftermath of a particularly inspirational screenwriting seminar, in which all the secrets of the mythic plot, the emotional growth trajectory and the big reveal had been meticulo… [详细内容]
<P>I have nothing against historical fiction: books or movies using real characters in situations that didn't happen. However, one would hope in such cases that the authors would have a story worth telling. That's not the case with Copying Beet… [详细内容]
<P>Phone Booth became one of a number of post-9/11 films to fall victim to an increasing reluctance on the part of motion picture studios to release movies where on-screen events echo real-world tragedies. Joel Schumacher's thriller was origina… [详细内容]
When a “heartwarming” holiday movie is this hamfisted, the best response is to slap some pineapple slices on it, throw it in the oven, and serve it for Christmas dinner. It’s the only way to make it palatable. Oh, the Whitfield clan is gathe… [详细内容]
<P>Imagine "E.T." as a towering metal man, and you have some of the appeal of "The Iron Giant," an enchanting animated feature about a boy who makes friends with a robot from outer space. The giant crash-lands on a 1957 night when America is pe… [详细内容]
<P>"The Mexican" stars Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts and involves a quirky, offbeat relationship--but it's not between Brad and Julia, it's between Julia and James Gandolfini. I like it that way. Considering how badly Jerry and Samantha--the Brad… [详细内容]
"The Mexican" pairs Brad Pitt with Julia Roberts in a dream casting coup that promises a road movie of blissful comic romance and delivers a series of dramatic dead ends. Pitt plays Jerry, a low-rent mob bagman whose girlfriend, Samantha (Rober… [详细内容]
<P>Following two horrific live-action versions of Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Geisel's beloved children's stories, the author's estate wisely decided to keep the next Seuss-to-screen translation in the animated realm. But even though the new cartoon H… [详细内容]