<P>There are so many appealing performers in "Shall We Dance?" that it's a crime the director, Peter Chelsom, and the screenwriter, Audrey Wells, haven't given them more to do. </P>
<P>In this remake of the 1997 Japanese film of the same name… [详细内容]
<P>In "Just Like Heaven" Reese Witherspoon plays an ambitious young doctor who has sacrificed her personal life at the altar of Dr. Kildare. She's driving along one night, after having spent some 2,346 straight hours on duty, when -- sacre bleu… [详细内容]
<P>The great Shakespeare renaissance of the 1990s is over, killed when the leader of the movement, Kenneth Branagh, was skewered by critics and art-house patrons over his musical adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost. Since then, Branagh has vowed… [详细内容]
<P>With Step Up 2 the Streets, the supposed-but-not-really sequel to 2006's sleeper Step Up, you get what you pay for. That is to say, there are lots of energetic dance moves, throbbing music that uses every channel of the theater's digital sou… [详细内容]
<P>And so Robin Williams' career has come full circle. Twenty years ago, his celebrity was insured when he played an innocent to the ways of humanity, drawing sit-com laughs from his literalist misunderstanding of idioms and his awkward attempt… [详细内容]
<P>The problem with "Alfie" -- both Lewis Gilbert's 1966 original and Charles Shyer's new remake -- is that its story, a squooshy redemption fable masquerading as astute character observation, asks the impossible of its lead actor. The differen… [详细内容]
From the (prolific) output of a largely unfashionable director, Wyler's Wuthering Heights has a distinctive look that elevates it above the blandness Goldwyn productions are so often charged with. Handsomely designed by James Basevi and shot by… [详细内容]
<P>Aghast is the word. It’s not a word that should be applicable to anything Seussical. But this is what I felt as I stumbled from my Saturday morning screening of Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! and immediately hied myself to a bookstore to p… [详细内容]
<P>Seabiscuit is the great hope of the adult movie-going audience: a summer motion picture that is not designed to appeal to teenage boys. Ordinarily, one might think it would be a risk on Universal's part to release the movie in late July, but… [详细内容]
<P>Big Daddy proves that Adam Sandler wrote the 'Acting Made Easy' book. Sandler, who glides through yet another role with high quotients of ease and likeability, almost makes sitting through this often funny but wholly uninspired comedy pain-f… [详细内容]
<P>While Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer is, above all, a cowboy film for grown-ups, this spectacularly acted and photographed epic offers plenty of mainstream fodder for a broad swath of filmgoers to enjoy. It's the Walter Farley children… [详细内容]
<P>A "family movie" is often loosely defined as a motion picture that, aimed at children, is likely to bore parents to tears. Numerous examples leap to mind, most of them from Walt Disney Studios, a production company that holds the curious dis… [详细内容]
<P>Based on a 1975 Isaac Asimov short story by the same name and a novel he co-authored with Robert Silverberg entitled The Positronic Man, Bicentennial Man has an interesting premise that's unfortunately Chris Columbus-ized, meaning whatever t… [详细内容]
<P>Refreshingly unpretentious if calculatedly impolitic, Thank You for Smoking is the rare film that stays within itself, mocking its obvious targets with the cool insouciance of mentholated tobacco. Writer and director Jason Reitman evinces su… [详细内容]
<P>According to the calendar, Christmas is December 25. According to the movie release schedule, it's December 17. There can be no greater gift for a movie lover than the one bestowed upon audiences by Peter Jackson, whose The Lord of the Rings… [详细内容]