<P>"Bicentennial Man" begins with promise, proceeds in fits and starts, and finally sinks into a cornball drone of greeting-card sentiment.</P>
<P>Robin Williams spends the first half of the film encased in a metallic robot suit, and when he …
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好好先生 Yes Man 更多中文片名: 没问题先生.....台湾译名 乜都得先生.....香港译名 更多外文片名: Bay evet.....Turkey(Turkish title) Dí que sí.....Spain Di que sí.....Spain 导演:佩顿·里德 Peyton Reed 编剧: 丹尼·华莱士 Danny Wallace....(book…
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<P>"The Horse Whisperer" is less a movie than a model of a movie made from a kit: Shake the box and you can hear the symbols and scenery rattling around in there, ready to be pieced together in an attractive fashion. There's supposed to be a st…
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<P>The chief pleasure to be found in any version of Oscar Wilde's play, The Importance of Being Earnest, is the dialogue, and Oliver Parker's re-interpretation is no different. All of the great lines are here: "The very essence of romance is un…
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<P>When "Sleuth" premiered last month at the Toronto Film Festival, a great many critics (including me), writing in advance about it sight unseen, described it as a "remake" of the 1972 film based on Anthony Shaffer's stage play. The festival p…
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<P>In this summer of sequel glut and computer-enhanced mayhem, Seabiscuit is a risky example of counterprogramming that just may lure an audience because it's so refreshingly unlike the competition. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's 2001 best-seller…
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<P>The idea of a high school basketball coach who benches the whole team for getting lousy grades -- as real-life coach Ken Carter, of Richmond, Calif., did in the late '90s -- sounds like a dream come true for manly-man cultural conservatives,…
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<P>In "The Last Emperor, a sweeping epic about Manchurian emperor Pu Yi, director Bernardo Bertolucci has an overwhelming task. And he comes so close to succeeding at it. </P>
<P>Bertolucci (with cowriter Mark Peploe) must show the lavish tra…
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<P>It begins with the trajectory of a speck. We watch as it floats through the jungle of Nool, a wisp of nothingness that's a self-contained planet in its own cosmos. It's a dot, on a clover. But as Theodore Geisel knew -- and any child will af…
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<P>Show people are different from you and me -- more high strung, more amusing, more devil-may-care -- but not, as István Szabó's resolute charmer "Being Julia" shows us, as different as we may think. </P>
<P>Annette Bening plays Julia Lamb…
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