Although it has few objectionable elements, “A Cinderella Story” promotes teenage dating and romance, hinting that they are the solution to many of life’s problems. It also fails to achieve any cinematic heights and offers a trite moral message.
- July 16, 2004 |
From the big top to the big screen: it’s Cirque du Soleil as a movie. Fans will likely be fascinated by this aerial ballet.
- December 20, 2012 |
New drama based on the real-life character of Vincent LaMarca and starring Robert DeNiro.
- September 18, 2002 |
Keeping the pace fast, City of Ember plays out like The Goonies meets National Treasure with a twinge of science fiction. The constant twists and turns of the plot, and its inevitable intrigue, will easily hold your attention for an hour.
- October 10, 2008 |
The ads for Clash of the Titans suggest epic entertainment, superb special effects and the catch phrase of the year so far—"Release the Kraken!"—but there's nothing epic about Titans other than the sense of disappointment it leaves in viewers.
- April 02, 2010 |
The Class, which won the top award at the most recent Cannes Film Festival, mixes teacher-student interaction throughout the course of one year at a school in Paris with behind-the-scenes political maneuvers and struggles.
- February 23, 2009 |
Scholastic continues its popular "Clifford" series for kids (written by Norman Bridwell and broadcast on PBS) with "Clifford's Really Big Movie," an animated film about fame, fortune and family.
- February 20, 2004 |
Tries to overcome its by-the-numbers plot with some spectacular scenery and slow-motion action sequences, but the result isn't compelling.
- April 29, 2002 |
Clever family-friendly movie will appeal to adults as well as kids and teens.
- February 28, 2002 |
Even if the overt nudity is limited in "Closer," the sex talk isn’t. And it is this which makes the film pornographic. Rather than the usual visual pornography of celluloid copulation, we are subjected to an onslaught of verbal and written pornography throughout the film. Art? Many will insist it is, but I beg to differ.
- December 03, 2004 |
For a story that would reach into our souls, it does its best to keep us at arm's length for nearly three hours.
- October 26, 2012 |
For those disappointed in I Am Legend, the New York setting is about all that film and Cloverfield have in common. From the get-go, there’s an air of mystery about J.J. Abrams’ latest that causes one to wonder exactly how everything’s going to go down in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.
- January 18, 2008 |
I have a feeling that after the word gets out about “Cold Mountain” and its depressing ending, some may end up giving it a cold reception at the box office.
- December 25, 2003 |
"Collateral" is presented very well indeed with Scorsese-like cinematography and flawless performances by Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. But don’t expect to come away feeling anything but depressed. This is nihilism at its best.
- August 06, 2004 |
Schwarzenegger gives his fans what they've come to expect.
- February 09, 2002 |
It is a rare and beautiful thing when a movie can truly capture the imagination of audiences ages three to seventy-three, but Disney’s new College Road Trip manages to do just that.
- March 07, 2008 |
Writer/Director John Wells tackles economic downturn head-on in The Company Men, a well-performed but curiously unaffecting tale of corporate callousness and career retrenchment.
- January 24, 2011 |
A captured fugitive says, "We made mistakes. But we were right." That’s the film’s view in a nutshell: sort of a Sympathy For Radicals.
- April 25, 2013 |
Not only is Confessions of a Shopaholic a cautionary tale of excess gone seriously awry, but it’s a colossal embarrassment to my gender. With a heroine so self-involved that she makes ditzy Elle Woods (of Legally Blonde fame) look like a Rhodes scholar in comparison, it's woefully misguided from the start.
- February 13, 2009 |
