Friday, September 14 2007
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
Instead of neuroses that are black-tinged and deep-seated, most of I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With's navel-gazing is genial to the point of being childlike.
Friday, June 9 2006
Cars (2006)
Thrilling in its shiny surface detail, the NASCAR scene stretches before you like an anthropomorphized vista: this is the immediate future of animation, and Pixar, recently and loudly sold to Disney, means to own it.
Wednesday, December 21 2005
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
Andy Shankman's poorly structured, unevenly paced, uninspired movie is set in summertime, which means its release is off season.
Thursday, January 8 2004
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
The actors are left with little to do but hustle from scene to scene: pratfall, pathos, hug, repeat.
Monday, September 23 2002
Life With Bonnie
You would be hard pressed to find a sitcom debuting this season with more people rooting for it than Life With Bonnie.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Return to Me (2000)
The narrative heart of Return to Me beats in rhythm with the tension between surface (what's on the outside) and depth (it's what's inside that counts).
