<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>Seabiscuit was a small horse with a lazy side. Sleeping and eating were his favorite occupations early in life, and he wasn't particularly well-behaved. That was before he met three men who would shape him into the best-loved sports legend o… [详细内容]
<P>Kids are wonderful little beings, inheritors of the earth and all that. But let's face it: They're infesting the movies. Obsessed with securing family audiences, Hollywood is rigging its plots with kids who tag along with Terminators, Action… [详细内容]
<P>In spite of an awkward title and an uninspired choice for the leading man, Definitely, Maybe nevertheless manages to charm with its bittersweet story of love and loss that ends on an upbeat and romantic note. The movie starts out as one thin… [详细内容]
<P>There's a certain sameness to all Adam Sandler movies. They're comedies, but the filmmakers employ a lame dramatic underpinning with a twofold purpose: to make the characters more likable and better rounded, and to give us the sense that we'… [详细内容]
<P>A delightfully enchanting family fantasy, "A Little Princess" has all the earmarks of a classic, and one can only hope it doesn't get blown out of the water by the big-budget blockbusters it is going up against.The basis is the same children… [详细内容]
<P>Nothing says Christmas like the Christmas cancer movie, but perhaps because sturdy American values have been in decline for a while now, several years have passed since we've had one. The wait is over: Rob Reiner's "The Bucket List," in whic… [详细内容]
<P>Daniela Denby-Ashe plays Margaret Hale who is a gentleman’s daughter from southern England. Her father makes an independent decision to change his career path and abruptly moves the family to the northern industrial town of Milton. They pac… [详细内容]
<P>William Wyler was not just one of the most important directors in American movie history; he was at various times the most controversial as well. His notoriety did not have the contemporary ingredients of or politics. Rather, there were rag… [详细内容]
<P>"Last Holiday" is a movie that takes advantage of the great good nature and warmth of Queen Latifah, and uses it to transform a creaky old formula into a comedy that is just plain lovable. To describe the plot is to miss the point, because t… [详细内容]
<P>movie critics who complain about the movies' pop bastardization of literature have to tread a thin, tricky line. Sometimes the pleasure that a movie adaptation delivers may have next to nothing to do with its source. I adore Carol Reed's mus… [详细内容]
<P>Marvel's "Sorcerer Supreme" Doctor Strange is its latest comic character to be given a feature-length animated outing with an origins story packed with detail, but lacking in depth. Gifted surgeon Stephen Strange is left bitter and dejected … [详细内容]
<P>The title alone begs derision: Must Love Dogs? If this film is included in that canine category, one can only demur. If not for the talent and natural charisma of its star, Diane Lane, this would be an entirely worthless enterprise.</P>
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