Friday, March 13 2009
Race to Witch Mountain
Race to Witch Mountain holds no surprises (even granting that it's a remake).
Monday, March 2 2009
Cheech and Chong: Still Smokin’: I Love the 80’s edtion
In short, this is among the least funny films you will ever see. This is in and of itself quite a serious problem for a comedy, but it gets worse.
Thursday, September 7 2006
Celebrity Duets
As Michael Bolton oozed across the floor, my interest began to go south faster than a carpetbagger on roller skates.
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.
Friday, September 2 2005
Underclassman (2005)
Before you can say, 'Drew Barrymore', Tre's got himself a spot just outside the cool-kids-on-campus clique.
Monday, January 17 2005
This So-Called Disaster (2004)
This So-Called Disaster is more impressionistic than comprehensive.
Friday, November 19 2004
Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
Tim Allen needs to stop making Christmas movies.
Thursday, May 13 2004
This So-Called Disaster (2004)
The real surprise is Sam Shepard's candor when recounting for Michael Almereyda the painful details of his father's deterioration.
Friday, August 9 2002
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Juni and Carmen's perspective, part convincingly ingenuous and part movie-kid calculated, organizes the film's general view of things.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Spy Kids (2001)
'Spy Kids' is all fun, sometimes obnoxious, and incessantly cheerful -- having your parents kidnapped is a minor inconvenience, leading to the chance to ride in a submarine that looks like a blowfish. How neat is that!"
