reviews by year

Pearce’s usual intense dedication to being in the moment aside, there’s not a lot of there there.

If you thought 2005’s *Are We There Yet?* was unendurable, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

It’s funny only if you think there is something amusing about men who are anything other than the Hummer-driving, date-raping, ‘hot-blooded’ caricature of a manly man.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is poised to blow away thinking moviegoers with his hugely appealing combination of Keanu Reeves’ quirky good looks, Tobey Maguire’s engaging mopiness, and a Johnny Depp-esque hunger for offbeat, demanding roles.

If you’re not a basketcase of sobby, sloppy tears of sadness and joy by the end of *The Namesake,* then I don’t know what’s wrong with you.

Sweet, smart, and tender: you can’t say that about too many science-fiction movies. But this one will delight kids and adults alike with its expansive sense of wonder…

Sandler is one monotone note here: dead-eyed hollowness standing in for grief…

It takes it all so darn seriously that you can’t even lose yourself in its goofiness…

There’s not a single thing original or surprising here, except how sincerely touching ‘Pride’ ends up being anyway.

Did Ralph Nader ‘spoil’ the 2000 presidential election? How you answer that question may impact how you feel about this rehabilitory biographical documentary by filmmakers Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan, which seeks to take back the positive image and good name of the dedicated consumer advocate of long decades from the mud in which it has become mired in recent years. Does it succeed? Beautifully.