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Starring:
Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson, Almudena Alcazar, Ana Ayora,
Haley…
Review:
From John Grogan’s bestseller comes a film about an untrainable
Lab, named after Bob Marley, who teaches Grogan (Owen Wilson) and
his wife (Jennifer Aniston) what matters in life. Watching the
stars try to out-cutesy the mutt is one for the puke bucket.
Rating: 1 Stars
Starring:
Review:
A return to the cloying sweetness of Big Daddy
territory for Adam Sandler. He’s a hotel maintenance guy who tells
stories to his niece and nephew that sort of come true. The
shortage of wit and the excess of goo can be summed up in Sandler’s
line to these children of divorce: “I’m like the stink on […]
Starring:
Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, Yehezkel
La…
Review:
A potent and profound document of war and its aftermath done as
a cartoon — what’s that all about? Watch and learn, cynics,
even if you think animation is strictly for kung-fu pandas and you
know squat about assassinated Lebanese president Bashir Gemayel.
For what’s on view in Ari […]
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn,
D…
Review:
What does a cult 1961 Richard Yates novel about a 1950s marriage
rotting in the burbs have to say to a new century? Plenty, and hold
on, because the raw and riveting Revolutionary Road hits
you where it hurts. To hear Kate Winslet, as April Wheeler, express
her desire “to […]
Starring:
Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice
Va…
Review:
Tom Cruise starring in the fact-based story of a plot to kill
Hitler by Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg sounds like Oscar bait.
It isn’t. And the sooner you accept it, the more fun you’ll have at
this satisfying B movie. Hearing Cruise’s American accent is
jarring at first. […]
Starring:
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes
Review:
Delicate business is being transacted here concerning the nature
of guilt, legal and moral. OK, that should scare off the
action-junkie crowd. Now we can talk. Director Stephen Daldry and
playwright David Hare, collaborators on The Hours, have
done something profoundly right in bringing Bernhard Schlink’s
controversial German novel to the screen: They’ve made it […]
Starring:
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes
Review:
Delicate business is being transacted here concerning the nature
of guilt, legal and moral. OK, that should scare off the
action-junkie crowd. Now we can talk. Director Stephen Daldry and
playwright David Hare, collaborators on The Hours, have
done something profoundly right in bringing Bernhard Schlink’s
controversial German novel to the screen: They’ve made it […]
Starring:
Clint Eastwood
Review:
Clint Eastwood has hinted that his role as bigoted Korean War
veteran Walt Kowalski — a gun-toting widower living in
Detroit near the struggling Ford auto plant and even nearer to the
Asian immigrants crowding him out of his run-down, racially mixed
hood — may be his last role as an actor. Eastwood, 78, has
two Oscars […]
Starring:
Michelle Williams
Review:
Simple story, beautifully told. A distressed dropout named Wendy
(the sublime Michelle Williams) and her dog Lucy hop in her beat-up
Honda and leave Indiana for Alaska, Wendy’s cautious hope for a new
frontier. But when the car dies in Oregon and Lucy goes missing,
Wendy faces hard choices and a hard-pressed America that keeps
closing doors. […]
Starring:
Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adrien Brody, Gabrielle Union, Beyonce
Knowle…
Review:
Beyoncé Knowles could have nabbed an Oscar nomination as
Best Supporting Actress. That’s how good she is playing it all
sexy, sassy and druggy as Etta James, the R&B singer who found
the soul in songs like “At Last.” Too bad for Knowles that she’s
only part of Darnell Martin’s rushed […]
