<P>A Christmas Story has something no other holiday film - new or old, comedic or serious - can boast: perfect nostalgia. That quality fuels this modern-day classic and has made it one of the season's most beloved motion pictures. One of the Tu… [详细内容]
<P>If you're only familiar with the Christmas in Connecticut through the awful Arnold Schwarzenegger-directed remake, you owe it to yourself to check out the original, a funny and witty film featuring Barbara Stanwyck in one of her lightest rol… [详细内容]
<P>Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" is an austere folly, a picture so ambitious, so filled with filmmaking, that its very scale almost obscures its blankness. The source for Anderson's fifth picture is Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel "O… [详细内容]
<P>If you've seen one film about a frequently drunken musician with a God-given talent and the social skills of a baboon, you could be forgiven for thinking you've seen them all. Copying Beethoven is really no exception and it plays out its mov… [详细内容]
<P>Kitschy seventies comedy does battle with some painful dramatics in Ang Lee's highly-regarded The Ice Storm, but the question of which of these wins is still in the air.</P>
<P>It's 1973, and the ual revolution is in full bloom. So are the… [详细内容]
<P>Well, it's arrived. After four Tyler Perry feature films, we finally have the very first official knockoff with "This Christmas." Of course, with such an honor comes a delicious twist: it's miles ahead of anything Perry could muster.</P>
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<P>In Psycho, Norman Bates said, "A boy's best friend is his mother." Imagine my surprise at discovering the mother/son pair in My Mom's New Boyfriend almost make Norman and his "Mother" seem like upstanding citizens. This is a comedy where mos… [详细内容]
<P>Tom Hanks as a hobo with cruddy fingernails. A set of train tracks that lead, seemingly, to nowhere. Writhing elves -- throngs of them -- with Dakota Fanning bodies and Karl Malden noses. Beware the creeping horror that is "The Polar Express… [详细内容]
Since ‘American Pie’, Jason Biggs has been the star of choice for many a US teen comedy in search of hapless hero. While aimed at a slightly older audience, ‘Wedding Daze’ casts him in the usual role, opening with a scene in which his chara… [详细内容]
One wouldn't have imagined that a film featuring Christina Ricci as a woman cursed with the snout of a pig would rank as one of the most interesting and flat-out entertaining films to play at this year's festival, but there you have it. An unab… [详细内容]
<P>Bubblegum princess Hilary Duff’s fleeting film career has reached the unpleasant stage where the wad of chew we’re being offered has grown rubbery and flavorless. Our jaws ache just thinking about gnawing on a lump of sugar this size. What… [详细内容]
摇滚年代英文影评 Rock of Ages So seductive he almost seduces himself
"Rock of Ages," a rags-to-riches rock'n' roll musical set in mostly in a music club on Sunset Strip, wins no prizes for originality. A lot of it is zesty entertainment, with… [详细内容]
<P>The generic mediocrity known as DreamWorks' animation department is about eight steps behind the multilayered brilliance of Pixar, and with Kung Fu Panda I think they finally reveal how sore they are about it. Their latest cinematic effort s… [详细内容]
<P>When twenty-nine year old Emily Bront?realized the publication of her gothic novel 'Wuthering Heights' in 1847 she had no way of knowing that her characters, the tragic lovers Heathcliff and Catherine, would translate so magically to the sil… [详细内容]