‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl’
Sometimes you catch a film critic calling a summer movie “…a real ride!” Which sort of leaves us in an awkward position when Disney releases […]
Reviews
Review: The Matrix Reloaded
When The Matrix hit theaters four years ago, nobody knew what hit them, least of all Warner Brothers. A fresh (to some) melding of science […]
An Overstuffed Daredevil
Writer/director Mark Steven Johnson has his fanboy heart in the right place, but his fandom sometimes blocks coherent storytelling.
Oh Those Shanghai Knights
Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson return as an unlikely — and inaccurate — action team that’s more Hope and Crosby than Schwarzenegger.
Lost in La Mancha
Terry Gilliam keeps tilting at windmills as his impossible dream of making a movie without a hitch fails to come true again…
The Recruit Turns Routine
A lot of big Al scenery chewing, with Colin Farrell holding his own, but still The Recruit turns routine…
Final Destination 2
Final Destination 2 proves that it’s a simple formula, but it works. And works. And works. For J. Dobbs, it’s hilarious.
Darkness Falls Fails
Sure, Darkness Falls fails in what it claims to be, but as movies go, they sure made a heck of an action figure…
National Security wastes Zahn
Martin Lawrence gets kicked out of Police Academy; he couldn’t even get back into a Police Academy remake…
A Guy Thing
Chalk it up to a guy thing as Jason Lee struggles to choose between Selma Blair and Julia Stiles. Yeah, we’ve been there…
Different Justice in Narc
Both cops want justice. They just have different ideas of what that means. One thing’s for sure — their world is colorless.
Condensed But Effective Nicholas Nickleby
A former SNL writer tackles one of Charles Dickens’ longest works to make a breezy attack on modern capitalism…
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is almost as charming as Leonardo DiCaprio, but there’s not as much under its shine as it thinks.
Adaptation Confuses and Pleases
Writing a review about a hall of mirrors movie in a hall of mirrors adaptation just leads to more mirrors… or does it?
The Two Towers
Peter Jackson makes sure The Two Towers stand tall; it’s just frustrating being the middle child of an epic film trilogy.
Star Trek Nemesis
Star Trek Nemesis could have used a few whales that needed rescuing. At this point, we’d even take dancing in the sand dunes…
Eight Crazy Nights
Step aside Scrooge; Davey Stone has arrived with a bah humbug that will leave you squirting Technicolor out your nostrils.
Solaris Makes You Think
You might not be in the mood for a real thinker of a sci fi picture, but that’s what you’re getting with this masterpiece…
Die Another Day
Easily the best of the Pierce Brosnan Bonds, Die Another Day injects new life by looking back to everything that came before.
Half Past Dead Not Half Good
Never before has a movie tried so hard to clear the “worst movie of the year” bar and failed so miserably.
