Push (review)
Dakota Fanning is the Littlest Action Hero in this disappointingly generic shoot-’em-up…
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Chocolate (review)
Alas that the most intriguing thing about this martial-arts kickfest is its wave-of-the-future release schedule.
Taken (review)
It doesn’t quite live up to the promise of that most awesomest of trailers, but almost.
The Uninvited (review)
Oh, for some kick-ass movie ghosts. I’m talking kick-ass on a Dickensian level.
New in Town (review)
As generic as its title while also yawningly idiotic in its own unique way…
Che (review)
You’ve seen the T-shirt — now see the movie. That seems to be attitude of the decriers of Steven Soderbergh’s portrait of the Argentinean freedom fighter/terrorist: that the filmmaker does not demonize his subject to the degree the decriers insist is necessary.
Frost/Nixon movie review: all the president’s mien
This was the sort of hopeless dread the news that Ron Howard was directing this left me with. I felt like Robert Stack in *Airplane!*: ‘It’s a goddamn waste of time — there’s no way he can land this plane!’
Inkheart (review)
Could be Thursday Next’s favorite movie of late…
My Bloody Valentine 3-D (review)
I was about ready to give My Bloody Valentine 3-D a passing grade, if just barely. But then the movie did something unforgivable: it cheated at the end.
An American Carol (review)
I was dreading *An American Carol* so much that the DVD just sat there on my desk, staring me in the face for weeks. Taunting me, almost — daring me to finally pop it into the player. Which, as there came a moment when I could no longer put it off, I did.
