<P>There's something overly familiar about "Guarding Tess." Shirley MacLaine's an obnoxious former First Lady unwillingly saddled with Secret Service protection. Agent Nicolas Cage is the poor chump stuck with watching her. She makes his life h… [详细内容]
<P>With their woefully unsuccessful animation department floundering, Warner Bros. has pinned its hopes for cartoon greatness on a 50-foot-tall robot from outer space. Lucky for the studio, The Iron Giant is possibly the most completely realize… [详细内容]
<P>Sometimes you can hear an entire relationship reflected in the intonation of a single word. At the beginning of "Guarding Tess," a man carries a tray upstairs to a closed bedroom door, takes his gun from a holster, places it on a table next … [详细内容]
<P>"The Polar Express" has the quality of a lot of lasting children's entertainment: It's a little creepy. Not creepy in an unpleasant way, but in that sneaky, teasing way that lets you know eerie things could happen. There's a deeper, shivery … [详细内容]
<P>Harmless fodder for the American Idol generation but somewhat mind-numbing for the rest of us, ‘Make it Happen’ follows the fortunes of budding dancer Lauryn as she pursues her lifelong dream to…well, you know the rest. Aiding her on this… [详细内容]
<P>Kevin Costner's new movie is about a presidential election that literally comes down to one man, one vote. The vote belongs to Bud Johnson, an alcoholic egg inspector from New Mexico, who finds himself the focus of the eyes of the world. Cos… [详细内容]
<P>I am gradually developing a suspicion, or perhaps it is a fear, that Jim Carrey is growing on me. Am I becoming a fan? In ``Liar Liar'' he works tirelessly, inundating us with manic comic energy. Like the class clown who'll do anything for a… [详细内容]
<P>Shabbily scripted, indifferently directed, and shot with all the grace of an ITV sitcom, Three and Out is an insipid British picture that fails to capitalise on its potentially interesting premise. Making an awkward step into leading man ter… [详细内容]
<P>The tale of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels is the most improbable of success stories. After having difficulty securing a financial backer, Guy Ritchie's debut feature became one of the biggest home-grown successes in the U.K. last year… [详细内容]
<P>"Calendar Girls" is based on a true story about a Yorkshire women's group that some years ago decided to jazz up its fundraising calendar by posing for it in the semi-nude, their private parts discreetly hidden behind strategically placed fl… [详细内容]
<P>In "Martian Child," John Cusack plays David, a recently widowed science-fiction novelist who decides to go through with the plans he and his wife had made before she died and adopt a child. The orphaned kid he ends up with, Dennis (Bobby Col… [详细内容]
<P>The sight of Queen Latifah catching computer-generated snowflakes on her tongue while talking into the camera about what makes the perfect holiday nearly pushes "The Perfect Holiday" past the point of redemption.</P>
<P>So does watching Mo… [详细内容]
<P>If you’re as hooked on coverage of the presidential campaign as I am, you’re probably aware of a pernicious new euphemism that’s crept into the political lexicon: low-information voters. As an abuse of the English language, this may not r… [详细内容]
<P>First, forget about history. Like the original Disney Pocahontas, you need to consider the merits of this movie independent from the real world. If you want to teach children about British colonization of the Americas, pull out an encycloped… [详细内容]
<P>"A Few Good Men" is a brass-buttoned, square-jawed huzzah for military justice that's thankfully free of the messy moralizing of the Vietnam age. An energetic adaptation of the Broadway play, this riveting court-martial drama looks at the et… [详细内容]