Steve Davis

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Revew: Nothing Like the Holidays
Nothing Like the Holidays
This Christmas-themed movie centers on a family gathering in Chicago's Humboldt Park, a predominantly Puerto Rican section of the city.

Movie Review, Dec. 19, 2008

Revew: Four Christmases
Four Christmases
From the director of the hit documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters comes this holiday-themed romantic comedy that stars Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn. Opens Wednesday.

Movie Review, Nov. 28, 2008

Revew: Nights in Rodanthe
Nights in Rodanthe
This movie which reunites Richard Gere and Diane Lane is hardly the best chick flick around, but it’s the flick with the best chick by far.

Movie Review, Sept. 26, 2008

Revew: Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
One-man moviemaking machine Tyler Perry drops his usual cross-dressing comedics for this melodrama about two family dynasties – one black, one white – rocked by scandal.

Movie Review, Sept. 19, 2008

Revew: The House Bunny
The House Bunny
A Playboy bunny who's been ejected from the mansion becomes a sorority house mother.

Movie Review, Aug. 29, 2008

Revew: Elsa & Fred
Elsa & Fred
A septuagenarian love story from Spain, Elsa & Fred will likely warm the cockles of your heart, even though it’s hardly the stuff of great romance.

Movie Review, Aug. 1, 2008

Revew: Savage Grace
Savage Grace
You can almost smell the desperation in the twisted psychosexuality of Savage Grace, the film purportedly based on the true story of a mother-son relationship that went tragically wrong.

Movie Review, July 18, 2008

Revew: Deception
Deception
In this so-called erotic thriller, busy New York City power brokers partake in a decadent sex club that eventually proves fatal.

Movie Review, May 2, 2008

Revew: Young@Heart
Young@Heart
Even though this documentary about a choral group of lovable octogenarians whose perform songs by Sonic Youth and the Talking Heads sounds gimmicky, it is really about something to which we can all relate: our own mortality.

Movie Review, April 18, 2008

Revew: Never Back Down
Never Back Down
Never Back Down is like The Karate Kid meets Fight Club by way of Abercrombie & Fitch.

Movie Review, March 21, 2008

Revew: College Road Trip
College Road Trip
Raven-Symoné co-stars with Martin Lawrence in this mugging comedy, which also makes room for Donny Osmond.

Movie Review, March 14, 2008

Revew: The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Spiderwick Chronicles
This children's fantasy holds a lot of emotional promise but get waylaid by an overabundance of CGI effects.

Movie Review, Feb. 22, 2008

Revew: Rambo
Rambo
In his fourth cinematic outing, Rambo's tasked with saving Christian missionaries in Burma.

Movie Review, Feb. 1, 2008

There Will Be Film
Steve Davis

Screens, Jan. 4, 2008

Revew: The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling novel is brought faithfully to the screen, although the melodramatics of the story's latter section undercuts the poetic drama of the first half.

Movie Review, Dec. 21, 2007

Revew: Margot at the Wedding
Margot at the Wedding
The director of The Squid and the Whale mostly falters in this follow-up film that stars Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jack Black as casually cruel narcissists.

Movie Review, Dec. 14, 2007

Revew: Lions for Lambs
Lions for Lambs
Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs, in which he co-stars with Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise, is a piece of nervy political theatre that argues against individual complacency in wartime.

Movie Review, Nov. 9, 2007

Revew: The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments
This family-oriented adaptation of the Book of Exodus is the inaugural film in a planned franchise of crudely animated Bible stories.

Movie Review, Oct. 26, 2007

Revew: Michael Clayton
Michael Clayton
This smart and thoroughly entertaining film asks the question of where a lawyer’s ethical responsibility to zealously represent a client ends and the societal interest in achieving justice begins.

Movie Review, Oct. 12, 2007

Revew: The Brave One
The Brave One
Jodie Foster might be good at playing a master of vengeance, but The Brave One turns out to be little more than an upscale B-movie about getting even.

Movie Review, Sept. 14, 2007

Revew: The Ten
The Ten
Quirky comedy sketches illustrate each of the Ten Commandments.

Movie Review, Aug. 17, 2007

Revew: I Know Who Killed Me
I Know Who Killed Me
Lindsay Lohan knows there are fates worse than her current legal quagmire – starring in this clunker, for example.

Movie Review, Aug. 3, 2007

Revew: Hairspray
Hairspray
While there’s nothing offensive about the wholesomeness of this new version of John Waters' 1988 cult classic, you wish that it didn’t feel as if every hair were in place.

Movie Review, July 20, 2007

Revew: Bug
Bug
The Exorcist's William Friedkin directs this psychological thriller that never really gets under your skin.

Movie Review, June 1, 2007

Revew: The Ex
The Ex
Zach Braff and Amanda Peet play husband and wife who deal with a new child and an old flame in this featherweight comedy that never steps outside its comfort zone.

Movie Review, May 18, 2007

Revew: Perfect Stranger
Perfect Stranger
The fishy smell that permeates Perfect Stranger comes from all of the red herrings flopping around this absurdly plotted Hollywood thriller.

Movie Review, April 20, 2007

Revew: Premonition
Premonition
Sandra Bullock again turns toward the supernatural in this thriller in which she plays a housewife who's uncertain whether her husband is alive or dead.

Movie Review, March 23, 2007

Revew: The Italian
The Italian
An Italian couple’s decision to adopt a Russian boy creates a troubling situation for young Vanya, who doesn't want to leave the country without meeting his birth mother.

Movie Review, March 16, 2007

Revew: Norbit
Norbit
The three personas Eddie Murphy adopts in this film literally fill the screen, but the script doesn't serve his multidimensional talents.

Movie Review, Feb. 9, 2007

Revew: Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls is an infectious experience of sequins and songs that lives up to the hype. Opens Monday.

Movie Review, Dec. 22, 2006

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