<P>Must Love Dogs is a product - a pre-packaged, easily-digestible motion picture designed with one particular audience in mind. You know the kind of film. You have seen it before, usually with names like Nancy Myers or Nora & Delia Ephron … [详细内容]
<P>On a bad day, you could probably pick apart Peter Segal's flirty romantic comedy "50 First Dates" pretty easily: The movie's pacing is lax and stringy at times, you can see some of the jokes coming at you from a mile away, and in certain sce… [详细内容]
<P>Despite all of the cheap, cheesy, and/or thoroughly unnecessary sequels I've seen on purpose in my time, a second helping of the 2006 dance-romance (ro-dance?) Step Up was not high on my list of potential larks, thanks to dance-movie fatigue… [详细内容]
<P>Just Like Heaven, in which a workaholic doctor too busy for relationships finally meets the man of her dreams (here, literally), is another cinematic press release targeting audiences with a positive spin on the ugly subjects of death, loss … [详细内容]
<P>Made of Honor, beginning with its flat pun of a title, is another wedding-themed romantic comedy that fizzles when it should fizz. As anyone who has seen the ubiquitous posters knows, Patrick Dempsey (aka Dr. McDreamy) plays the maid of hono… [详细内容]
<P>The worst thing you can do when facing the latest installment in the Harry Potter movie franchise is to yearn for the same kind of sturdy poetry J.K. Rowling has given us in the books they're based on. Which isn't to say that we haven't some… [详细内容]
<P>Most of Martin Scorsese's films have been about men trying to realize their inner image of themselves. That's as true of Travis Bickle as of Jake LaMotta, Rupert Pupkin, Howard Hughes, the Dalai Lama, Bob Dylan or, for that matter, Jesus Chr… [详细内容]
The film which lifted Columbia Studios into the big league by winning five Academy Awards and putting Capra's future output among the biggest box-office successes of the '30s. Gable plays a ruthless reporter who adopts a fugitive heiress making… [详细内容]
<P>"Chicago" continues the reinvention of the musical that started with "Moulin Rouge." Although modern audiences don't like to see stories interrupted by songs, apparently they like songs interrupted by stories. The movie is a dazzling song an… [详细内容]
<P>The chief problem with "Thank You for Smoking," first-time director Jason Reitman's adaptation of Christopher Buckley's satirical novel, isn't that it's over the top; it's that it fits so neatly under the top. Aaron Eckhart plays Nick Naylor… [详细内容]
<P>Be careful what you ask for; you might get it. Two weeks ago I deplored the lack of wit in "Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones," which has not one line of quotable dialogue. Now here is "The Importance of Being Earnest," so thick wi… [详细内容]
<P>Lately, it seems every time I review a Rob Reiner movie, I lament the fall this once reliable filmmaker has taken. Admittedly, Reiner started at such a pinnacle that there was nowhere to go but down, but it's beyond consideration that the di… [详细内容]
"Are you not entertained?" charismatic Russell Crowe roars scornfully to the cheering crowd in the Roman Colosseum. Certainly there hasn't been this kind of awesome sword-and-sandals spectacle since "Spartacus," "Ben-Hur" and "Cleopatra." Set i… [详细内容]
<P>Once upon a time, a Broadway musical like Chicago would have automatically received a silver screen treatment ?but that was before the popularity of the movie musical crashed and burned. Nevertheless, the enthusiasm surrounding the 1996 revi… [详细内容]
<P>`A Little Princess" is another magical family film based on a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, whose work also inspired "The Secret Garden." Both films approach the characters of her children with calm solemnity and delight, placing them in … [详细内容]