Elizabeth: The Golden Age
The movie feels more superficial than significant, like it's stuck behind a pane of glass.
Thursday, May 24 2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)
In the just-in-time for Memorial Day weekend Pirates sequel, Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) pursues pleasure with the sort of determination usually associated with moviegoers.
Tuesday, May 1 2007
Monkey Business (Part 1: May)
Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.
Wednesday, November 22 2006
Candy (2006)
Addiction and guilt shape the junkies' existence, until the inevitable, life-threatening crisis shakes up their routine.
Friday, December 23 2005
Munich (2005)
Munich is about the shifting meaning the city's name took on after that dire moment in 1972, the shorthand it became for survivors, historians, and avengers.
Monday, June 7 2004
Ned Kelly (2003)
Ned might have been a criminal in the eyes of the law, but to working class Australians he was a hero wrongly accused.
Monday, December 15 2003
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Johnny Depp spent time learning to swordfight, so that Captain Jack Sparrow could be poised and everready -- in a word, the Muhammad Ali of swordfighters.
Thursday, October 9 2003
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
The Coen brothers' latest venture is a rat-a-tat romantic comedy of the Preston Sturges persuasion, at least for its first hour or so.
