<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]
<P>Suspicions that there may be a real actor lurking in "Saturday Night Live"'s Bill Murray first surfaced a decade ago in Groundhog Day, a quirky antic in which he was doomed to reliving the same 24 hours time and again (three times during the… [详细内容]
<P>Some movies are too much of a good thing; others are too much of a bad thing. And some, like "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," are too much of nothing -- very expensive nothing. </P>
<P>The third and (please God) final entry in t… [详细内容]
<P>Step Up 2 The Streets (* * out of four) is all about impressing us with its fancy footwork. But the dance scenes feel like a diversion, since the story, acting and dialogue are sadly lacking in originality and substance.<BR>The plot feels fo… [详细内容]
<P>Most romantic comedies follow conventional formulas that, when they work, can result in a frothy, enjoyable end product - admittedly, not something to challenge the intellect but enough to cause the heart to skip a beat or two. When those fo… [详细内容]
<P>The Talented Mr. Ripley is a new film version of Patricia Highsmith's novel about the exploits of an extremely intelligent, amoral sociopath. The book has previously been adapted to the motion picture format in 1960's Purple Noon, a chilling… [详细内容]
<P>The year it premiered, A Christmas Story didn't play in theaters over Christmas. It opened around Thanksgiving and was pulled shortly before the big holiday because it lost money. Since then, the film has paid big dividends as one of the sea… [详细内容]
<P>Pretty Persuasion, scripter Skander Halim's tale of a scheming teenage girl, Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood), is written with both poison pen and an outrageously accurate ear. Be forewarned that Kimberly takes no prisoners, and that innoce… [详细内容]
<P>The voice of the oil man sounds made of oil, gristle and syrup. It is deep and reassuring, absolutely sure of itself, and curiously fraudulent. No man who sounds this forthright can be other than a liar. His name is Daniel Plainview, and he … [详细内容]