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By:
Betsy Bozdech
March 07, 2008 4:13am EST
A charming mix of screwball comedy and poignant romance, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is lighthearted period fun.
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By:
Mark Burger
October 12, 2007 6:45am EST
The latest film from multi-hyphenate Tyler Perry is one of his more accessible to date. Why Did I Get Married? may not attract a new audience to the Perry fold, but it should certainly play well with the pre-existing one, which has made him the successful entrepreneur he is today.
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By:
Kit Bowen
July 23, 2007 10:07am EST
Hairspray is a Grease for the new millennium, just the kind of bubblegum musical that keeps your toes tappin’—except this time John Travolta is wearing a fat suit and nylons. Shiver.
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By:
Kit Bowen
June 01, 2007 5:53am EST
It’s everything you’d expect from a lame comedy called Delta Farce, featuring three dopes in army gear on the movie poster.
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By:
Mike Szymanski
April 27, 2007 5:38am EST
With The Condemned, the thirst for violence turns to the Internet, and wrestler Steve Austin becomes a moral compass for the hypocrisy of society.
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By:
Kit Bowen
March 26, 2007 5:44am EST
Shedding the confines of the original 1990s live-action versions, the new TMNT runs free with crisp, malleable animation and kick-ass action. Franchise fans young and old should be duly entertained.
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By:
Kit Bowen
February 23, 2007 6:04am EST
Billy Bob Thornton finally sheds his Bad Santa-ness to play an everyday hero in the uplifting, if slightly cornball, family drama The Astronaut Farmer.
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By:
Brian Marder
January 16, 2007 10:01am EST
Not even the good ol’ “Inspired by true events” tag can save Primeval from itself. But there’s still time for you to save yourself from Primeval!
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By:
Steven Trautmann
December 22, 2006 10:12am EST
Lots of gray cloaks and very sporadic daggers makes director Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd a realistic spy story, but not a box-office crowd pleaser.
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By:
Brian Marder
December 20, 2006 4:28am EST
While The Pursuit of Happyness could very easily be subtitled The Pursuit of Sappyness, the terrific father-son dynamic between Will and Jaden Smith is enough to make for an effective tearjerker—barely.