Juno marks the second film for director Jason Reitman and the first for screenwriter Diablo Cody, author of the Pussy…
The premise had promise: Characters from a “vintage” Disney movie suddenly find themselves thrust into our world. But somewhere between…
Easily the worst adaptation of a major novel by a Nobel Prize–winning author. Easily. Director Mike Newell (Harry Potter and…
Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis can trace their roots back to a couple of patches of Iowa soil their respective…
There’s no disputing the sincerity with which Steve Sawalich tells the true-life tale of Richard Pimentel, the man more or…
Martian Child certainly isn’t much fun, unless you were desperately awaiting K-PAX with a kid instead of Kevin Spacey. Not…
One could fill this entire space with the titles of films from which writer-director Peter Hedges nicks his story, but…
Writer Steve Niles and illustrator Ben Templesmith’s three-issue comic-book series, originally published in 2002, spawned a subsequent franchise and now…
Nine years after proffering her origin story, director Shekhar Kapur revisits Queen Elizabeth I, once more played by Cate Blanchett…
Based on a 54-page short story by Eileen Chang, Ang Lee’s latest foray into forbidden love is as monotonous and…
It will no doubt be said time and again of Michael Clayton: best John Grisham adaptation ever. Only, it’s from…
Aside from the occasional murmured reference to Iraq and the so-called War on Terror, Peter Berg’s The Kingdom is little…
Based on a 2004 New York Times Magazine article about the sex-trafficking business and starring a very straight-faced Kevin Kline,…
Michael Douglas is a mental patient on the loose, out to liberate Spanish gold buried beneath a Costco—or maybe a…
Simon (Richard Gere) and Duck (Terrence Howard) are hot-shit reporters in the hot zone, drinking and carousing their way through…
Bad Santa gets worse every time he trots out the same mean routine; does anyone at this late date recall…
Director Rod Lurie can always find the overwrought in the mundane; his filmography (The Last Castle, The Contender, Deterrence) is…
An overly serious drama/colossal hoot from the director of the dope-peddlin’ Empire (Franc. Reyes—and, yes, the period’s on purpose), this…
How an unemployed Eastside engineer triumphed on the
video screenand now the big screen, too.
This is less an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 1999 novel than of its dust-jacket synopsis, which will come as disconcerting…
