BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN AN AVALANCHE OF memories tumbles across the screen while characters and backdrops…
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Reviews of new movies, plus an archive of 6 years of past reviews!
Sweepingly melodramatic, jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and massively sad and romantic, Far From Heaven is one of…
What a Renaissance Clint Eastwood is having! Million Dollar Baby easily could have been…
Two good reasons to see Finding Neverland: Johnny Depp and Freddy Highmore. © 2004 Miramax…
BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN SWEEPING THE 2004 ACADEMY AWARD for Best Documentary, The Fog of War:…
BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN Adapted from the novel by Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring…
I’m still a little stunned that the first two Harry Potter movies did so well.…
BY Neil Fauerso David Cronenberg, like David Lynch, Jane Campion, or Peter Greenaway, inspires strong…
Is The Incredibles the best American animated film ever? I’m sure this will strike some…
BY NEIL FAUERSO IS THERE A MORE SINGULAR and fiercely individual director than Terry Gilliam?…
BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN England’s most eligi-ble bachelor, the Prime Minister, “fancies” his personal assistant; a…
BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN Jonathan Rhys Meyers gives pointers to Scarlett Johansson in Match Point (©2005…
Mean Girls hits us right between the eyes with the cruelty of suburban high school…
Ziyi Zhang in Memoirs of a Geisha (©2005 Columbia Picture Industries Inc.) “Geisha are not…
BY NEIL FAUERSO Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring star in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive…