ALEXANDER
“Alexander” comes at a time when America is poised as a fear-ridden empire overreaching its boundaries while neglecting its strained…
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ABOUT SCHMIDT
Jack Nicholson plays Warren Schmidt, a 66 year-old retired and widowed insurance man from Omaha. Warren drives his 35-foot Winnebago…
ANYTHING ELSE
After losing a wide spectrum of his once-loyal audience due to public scandal around his personal life, the quality of…
THE RING: TWO
The sequel to the American remake of the 1998 Japanese horror flick “Ringu” fails to build suspense or fear. “Ringu”…
WINGED MIGRATION
“Winged Migration” is a documentary that has been greatly overhyped because of its groundbreaking camera techniques. But after twenty minutes…
THE POLAR EXPRESS
Just seeing Tom Hanks’s name attached to an animated Christmas movie directed by Robert Zemeckis (“Forrest Gump”) should be enough…
VEROINICA GUERIN
This earnest biopic about Irish newspaper journalist Veronica Guerin (pronounced ‘gear-in’) paints a vivid portrait of the courageous and irrepressible…
POLLOCK
In the same way a tap dancer innately understands the percolating syncopation of jazz music, Ed Harris identifies character rhythms…
KILL BILL: VOL. 1
Quentin Tarantino’s long awaited fourth film finds the pop culture carnivore reinvigorating cinema a second time over with a single-plot-trajectory…
ALFIE
Michael Caine’s 1966 breakout performance as a swinging London stud is emulated, but not matched, by Jude Law in a…
PAPARAZZI
It’s not a good sign when a filmmaker’s primary claim to fame is as Mel Gibson’s former hair stylist. So…
ARE WE THERE YET?
With one of the most hackneyed expressions in children-based comedy movies, “Are We There Yet?” fulfills every low expectation that…
ALONG CAME POLLY
Ben Stiller carries on with his trademark neurotic mantle. This time around he plays Reuben Feffer, an anxiety-ridden, heartbroken insurance…
THE WHOLE TEN YARDS
Proof that most sequels should be avoided, “The Whole Ten Yards” vaporizes the humor of its superior 1999 precursor “The…
TROY
Action/Adventure, Historical Epic, Reviews Blog, Sword-and-Sandal, TWO STARS, War, War Fantasy, Women's Cinema
“Troy” delivers the price of admission in its first battle between dueling warriors. Achilles and an enormous gladiator, who looks…
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
I’m not saying you have to be crazy to identify with the wrongheaded characters in “Eternal Sunshine” but that you…
MISS CONGENIALITY 2: ARMED AND FABULOUS
Made to bore airplane passengers to sleep, “Miss Congeniality 2” is a poorly written comedy sequel that teems with miscast…
THE WEDDING DATE
Only ditzy American white girls will enjoy this “Four Wedding’s and A Funeral”-knockoff. It was obviously penned by that same…
A GUY THING
A quick glance at the three main actors for “A Guy Thing” (Jason Lee, Selma Blair and Julia Stiles) tells…
THE AVIATOR
“The Aviator” is a glorious biographical view of Howard Hughes as a futurist capable of melding airplanes with his own…
COLE SMITHEY’S CLASSIC CINEMA
