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Hillary Swank does not have the chi...
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Posted on Thursday May 9, 2013

Marjane Satrapi brings her awar...
It occured to me as I watched this movie that this was the third time in the last few months that I was watching a large black woman bringing shock and awe to to a bunch of slender, clueless white ...
One of my favorite Thanksgiving films is this touching story of a young woman, estranged from her family, who invites them to Thanksgiving dinner at her apartment.
I love movies that don't feel lik...
Even in a summer blockbuster, sometimes less is more.
Especially when it comes to the story. They throw in so many plots, so many battles, so many tonal shifts, so many characters, and ul...
This is what big summer blockbuster studio movies are all about -- love, honor, humor, villains evil enough to make it really satisfying when they are beaten and scary enough to keep you wondering ...
Jack is back.
And he is doing what he does best -- stealing the movie from everyone else. Johnny Depp continues Captain Jack Sparrow's conquest of center stage with this fourth in the "Pirates...
The sensationally talented Anna Kendrick finally gets to play the lead in a story about the cutthroat world of a capella competitions. It's "Stomp the Yard" with singing, or "Glee Goes to Col...
The players get played in a romantic buddy comedy with one important distinction -- one of those players is the resident of an assisted living facility who gets some assistance he was not expec...
This remake is so stripped down it doesn't even have time for two of the three words of the original: this isn't The Poseidon Adventure -- it's just "Poseidon." If they remake it, it will be called...
There is not one single thing in this movie that you don't see or guess from the trailer, but for some audiences that means that it will deliver just what they are looking for.
Alexis Bledel pla...
Garrison Keillor's voice is a national treasure. It is so warm, so magnetic, even hypnotic that it lulls you into a whole different dimension, an idealized past located somewhere between innocent ...
Former Destiny's Child singer Letoya Luckett has the title role in this touching story of a sheltered young woman from a small town who joins a traveling gospel show. She finds her values and her ...
He's a Manhattan bicycle messenger and his name is Wilee, like the coyote. But Wilee (the always-brilliant Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is more like the road runner in this story. He has an envelope t...
With little style and no substance, this low-wattage forgettable thriller plays like a rejected episode of "The Twilight Zone." Linda (Sandra Bullock) wakes up every day in a different reality (an...
As if we should believe him, Hugh Jackman’s character proclaims in “The Prestige” that magicians have a “circle of trust.” “The Prestige” takes that circle of trust and twists it into...
Roger Ebert launched a thousand blog posts with howls of protest by asserting that
a video game could never be a ...
The 1968 version of
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Posted on Thursday December 15, 2005
Think "Taming of the Shrew Wears Prada." Book editor Margaret (Sandra Bullock) is whip-smart and whippet-thin, ferociously competent, ruthlessly demanding, and just plain scary. When she strides ...
If a man goes from homeless single dad to multi-millionaire stockbroker, you know there has to be a movie. This one has the good sense to star Will Smith and his real-life son Jaden.
Their natural ...
If you add up all the recent movies about ordinary-looking people who walk among us with special hidden powers, you might conclude that there are no normal people left. The accountant next door mi...