I Love You, Beth Cooper

By Renee Scolaro Mora

I Love You, Beth Cooper is yet another in the long line of shameless knock-offs being shoveled into theaters near you. [10 July 2009]

Mrs. Doubtfire

By Lana Cooper

This film about a charmingly warped, desperate, and divorced dad in drag has held up well 15 years after its original release. [16 April 2008]

Rent (2005)

By Cynthia Fuchs

The song, 'Rent', names its own dilemma, how to make melodrama and artifice compelling when experience has turned so sensational and illusory?" [23 November 2005]

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

The cruelest of Malfoy's bigotries is directed against lovely, diligent Hermoine. [29 November 2002]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

By Todd R. Ramlow

The makers of 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' are banking on the fact that so very many people 'have' read the books, so that the confusion of those Luddites who haven't read them matters very little. [15 November 2001]

Bicentennial Man (1999)

By Tobias Peterson

Robots: we either love 'em or hate 'em. Movies have given us friendly Star Wars droids like R2-D2 and C-3PO and sadistic mechanical henchmen like Maximilian in The Black Hole. Science fiction television has shown both Buck Rogers' loyal sidekick Twiggy and the destructive Cylons of Battlestar Galactica. [1 January 1995]

Short Ends and Leader: You’ll Hate ‘Beth Cooper’