<P>Richard Gere plays John Clark, not an unhappy man, in "Shall We Dance?" He loves his wife and daughter, he enjoys his job as a lawyer, and when his wife gets that funny look in her eye and asks him if everything is OK, he says sure, of cours… [详细内容]
<P>Drew Barrymore in Never Been Kissed? Improbable as it sounds, the effervescent young movie veteran defies expectations and gives her all to the role of a nerdy teenager turned nerdy adult in this genial comedy about the nightmare side of hig… [详细内容]
<P>"Must Love Dogs" is like a puppy with big brown eyes and a wagging tail who weeps with eagerness to lick your hand, but you take a look around the pound and decide to adopt the sad-eyed beagle who looks as if she has seen a thing or two. In … [详细内容]
<P>Gladiator is the kind of movie upon which Hollywood once built its reputation but rarely produces anymore: the spectacle. Filled with larger-than-life characters, gorgeous scenery, impressive set design, and epic storytelling, Gladiator is d… [详细内容]
<P>Shall We Dance? is a remake of the 1997 Japanese feature by the same name. Penned and directed by Masayuki Suo, that film was an unexpected pleasure - a feel-good feature that wasn't weighed down by the unnecessarily cloying melodrama and ma… [详细内容]
<P>Like something from out of the past itself, Somewhere in Time is an old-fashioned romance that came out at a time when such movies were no longer being made. Missing an audience at the time of its release, both commercially and critically, … [详细内容]
<P>"'Til death do us part" rarely works in Hollywood, where screenwriters bring soul mates back as actual souls to haunt the loved ones they've recently departed.</P>
<P>The latest spirit disturbed for the good of a joke is Kate (Eva Longoria… [详细内容]
<P>"Take the Lead" begins with rudeness, ends with good manners, and argues that poor inner city schools can be redeemed by ballroom dancing. The only thing wrong with this vision, I suspect, is that it works for the ballroom dancers but not fo… [详细内容]
<P>Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters," the best movie he has ever made, is organized like an episodic novel, with acute little self-contained vignettes adding up to the big picture.</P>
<P>Each section begins with a title or quotation on … [详细内容]
<P>Sometimes the hardest movies to review are the ones that are middle-of-the-road, bland and completely uninspiring, movies like "December Boys." </P>
<P>There's nothing wrong with "December Boys," exactly, but there's nothing really right w… [详细内容]
<P>If Daniel Radcliffe wants to lay the groundwork for a big screen career post-Harry Potter, he should avoid projects like December Boys. Playing one of four orphans (what a stretch, huh?) on seaside holiday, Radcliffe gives a stiff and recess… [详细内容]
<P>Hard Candy is the kind of uncompromising independent motion picture that is likely to foster ambivalence in a significant portion of its audience. Admittedly, the film doesn't stand up well to a careful postmortem (many psychological thrille… [详细内容]
<P>"I'm not human," little Dennis says at one point in "Martian Child." So he believes. The lonely orphan has convinced himself that he was not abandoned by his parents, but arrived here from Mars. To protect himself against the sun, he walks a… [详细内容]
<P>There are some Steve Carell fans out there who believe the gifted comic actor has yet to make a superb feature comedy; they didn't see what the fuss was all about with "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," thought "Little Miss Sunshine" was not much mor… [详细内容]
<P>In "Liar Liar," Jim Carrey comes back with a likable vengeance. Although his character has moral problems, there's a good person just bursting to come out. He's Fletcher Reede, a chipper, insincere attorney who coaxes his clients into bendin… [详细内容]