<P>Villains usually last through only one crime novel, while heroes are good for a whole series. That's a great inconvenience for their authors, because villains are usually more colorful than heroes. Patricia Highsmith's novels about Tom Riple… [详细内容]
<P>Theatre buffs may be outraged that the film version of Chicago scraps the trademark choreography of Bob Fosse, but this miraculously resourceful movie is the best possible tribute to the late dance legend. Perhaps the best movie musical sinc… [详细内容]
<P>One of Shakespeare's most powerful and controversial plays finally comes to the screen in Michael Radford's splendid adaptation of The Merchant of Venice. Briskly paced and passionately alive, Radford's compelling and handsomely filmed versi… [详细内容]
<P>The main problem with Coach Carter can be summed up simply: too much sermonizing. In a way, it's hard to fault the film, because its heart is in the right place. The movie wants to impress upon teenagers that education is the first step on t… [详细内容]
<P>Girl with a Pearl Earring is the first feature for director Peter Webber. Most freshman filmmakers don't come close to Webber's level of accomplishment, and (not to take anything away from him) some of the credit must certainly be parceled o… [详细内容]
<P>"A Little Princess" exquisitely re-creates the ephemeral world of childhood, an enchanted kingdom where everything, even make-believe, seems possible. Where decrees are made to be broken, save one that is inviolate: "All girls are princesses… [详细内容]
<P>It may seem strange to hear a life-long commentator on film say this, but the fact is that many movie reviewers are odd ducks, indeed. Sometimes, they eat with their mouths OPEN. Sometimes, they NEVER clean their rooms. Sometimes, they use a… [详细内容]
<P>At first glance, a movie about the adventures of a piglet who thinks he's a sheepdog doesn't appear to be the perfect entertainment recipe for those beyond puberty. However, through a mixture of imaginative storytelling, impressive animatron… [详细内容]
<P>Thank You for Smoking is the feature debut of Jason (son of Ivan) Reitman, who has assembled an impressive cast. In addition to Aaron Eckhart, who has the lead, the credit list includes the following names: Katie Holmes, Cameron Bright, Sam … [详细内容]
<P>Shall We Dance sits on the screen like an unwelcome dinner guest, or a corpulent toad. It's a remake of a mediocre-but-popular Japanese film that jettisons the question mark after "Dance" on its title screen, the inflectionless phrase squatt… [详细内容]
<P>Director Oliver Parker has not so much adapted Oscar Wilde's comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest as he has exploded it. As if fearing to make this farce about the dandies Algernon Moncrief (Rupert Everett) and Jack Worthing (Co… [详细内容]
<P>Adapted from crime novelist Patricia Highsmith's second novel (it followed Strangers on a Train, which Alfred Hitchcock turned into one of his most hauntingly twisted films), Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley is a lushly seductive … [详细内容]
<P>In "A Perfect World," Clint Eastwood plays a legendary Texas Ranger named Red Garnett, but it's hard to tell just how the character came by that legendary status. The year is 1963, and when Red hears that a career criminal named Butch Haynes… [详细内容]
<P>Those who have ventured into the darker corners of addiction know that one of its few consolations, once the fun has worn off, is the camaraderie with fellow practitioners. Substance abuse sets the user apart from the daily lives of ordinary… [详细内容]
<P>Old Jimmie Langdon, the impresario who taught the young Julia Langdon much of what she knows about the world, refers at one point to "What civilians call the real world." Theater people know better. All the world's a stage, and Julia is but … [详细内容]