"Bee Movie" (DreamWorks) may just do for bees what "Ratatouille" did for rats.
: Nov 2, 2007
"Martian Child" (New Line) is a delicate, highly unusual story -- based on David Gerrold's semiautobiographical short story, "The Martian Child" -- about widowed science fiction writer, David Gordon (John Cusack), with a yen for adopting a child to fill his empty life.
: Nov 2, 2007
Steve Carrell may be the best reason to see "Dan in Real Life" (Touchstone/Focus), a pleasantly amusing if unremarkable comedy.
: Oct 26, 2007
Much as we like to be supportive of family-friendly films, especially independent works made on modest budgets, "Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour" (Freestyle) is, we're afraid to say, the kind of Halloween film you'd be forgiven for wishing would be run out of town by parents armed with pitchforks and torches.
: Oct 26, 2007
The unusual bond between a young widow and her late husband's best friend is the focus of "Things We Lost in the Fire" (DreamWorks), a film which moves dexterously from moments of clever humor to painfully deep emotion. The result is captivating.
: Oct 19, 2007
Casey Affleck follows up his mesmerizing turn as Jesse James' once-idolatrous killer with an equally superlative, and quite different, performance in brother Ben Affleck's highly auspicious directorial debut, "Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax).
: Oct 19, 2007
A film that combines football and ballet, and adds a healthy dollop of sentiment to the mix, "The Game Plan" (Disney) can surely be said to have something for everybody. Though its plot is slightly implausible, this comedy, intended mainly for children, should manage to endear itself to all but their most cynical adult guardians.
: Sep 28, 2007
"The Kingdom" (Universal) is certainly a riveting film. It is stylish, fast-paced and all too relevant; few viewers will fail to be absorbed by it.
: Sep 28, 2007
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture on the lonely shore," begins the quotation from Lord Byron that opens this remarkable film.
: Sep 21, 2007
Those with memories of an idealized Jesse James as played by Tyrone Power in the 1939 film are in for a vastly different -- but satisfying -- experience with this latest cinematic incarnation of the famous Western outlaw.
: Sep 21, 2007