Wednesday, March 22 2006

Coney Island

By Michael Buening

Coney Island deals with the darkness beneath the parks' bright surfaces with discretion, resisting the urge to play every clown image for maximum Carnival of the Soul eeriness.

Friday, December 23 2005

The Producers (2005)

By Cynthia Fuchs

No one can be wholly ruined in a big fat sardonic musical, a form demanding grandeur, gaucheness, and above all, giddy delights. Unfortunately, this movie musical rather forgets the movie part.

Thursday, January 22 2004

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Like Legally Blonde, Win a Date showcases an independent-minded girl whose naïveté and credulity make her admirable.

Thursday, July 18 2002

Stuart Little 2 (2002)

By Tracy McLoone

With all the incessant action, 'SL2' feels like it's trying to be bigger than it is.

Sunday, January 1 1995

Titan A.E. (2000)

By Todd R. Ramlow

Trixie (2000)

By Lesley Smith

Stuart Little (1999)

By Renee Scolaro Rathke

Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000)

By Ben Varkentine

In the hands of able actors, Shakespeare's 'taffeta phrases, silken terms, precise, three-piled hyperboles, and spruce affections' are a passport to the land of milk and honey.