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If you can swing it, the most appropriate way to see Practical Magic would be as part of an evening that also includes dinner at Olive Garden, a tour of Amado Peña's art gallery, and a ...
It's been a very long time since any Robert Altman film has been as enjoyable as A Prairie Home Companion.
When talk turns to remakes of movie classics, it's all too easy to slip into an obsessive compare-and-contrast groove. Luckily for you readers, my memories of a single long-ago viewing of The Bishop's Wife, a 1947 ...
Much like the title character Precious, this rough-hewn movie overcomes the unlikely odds for its success.
As Super-cop Glover gets closer to the Predator, this alien fighting machine gains nothing resembling coherency or sense. Its modus operandi is search and destroy. Why? How? If questions like this matter to you, Predator 2 ...
The Predator needs an editor
Predators (2010, 106 min., R)
This Robert Rodriguez-produced film doesn't try to be a sequel to the Schwarzenegger picture but, instead, is a new story about humans hunted by the merciless Predators.
Prefontaine (1997, 106 min., PG-13)
If you’re not familiar with the name Steve Prefontaine, you’re probably not alone. And if you happen to be as uninformed as I was when I sat down to watch Prefontaine, the latest effort from the ...
The open and accepting audience member is a good audience member, but it's pretty hard to accept another switch movie even when it comes from a director with the credentials of Norman René, who directed Longtime ...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt rides like the wind, and Michael Shannon plays his usual nut job, but Bullitt on a bike this film is not.
Premonition (2007, 110 min., PG-13)
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.
Enigmatic Hungarian drama asks how much we invent our own worlds
An American YouTube songstress finds an unlikely champion in an Israel experimental composer
Two rival magicians are locked in a lifelong quest for supremacy, which leads them down a slippery slope of hairpin twists and triple-turns in this Christopher Nolan movie.
Prey (2022, 99 min., PG-13)
The Predator franchise goes historical and stays bloody
Gina Gershon plays a rock & roll grrrl pushing 40.
The Prey (2020, 93 min., NR)
Vietnamese cinema is back with a vicious bang
Not since Melanie Griffith strode among them in A Stranger Among Us a few years ago has Brooklyn's Hasidic community been so foregrounded in an American motion picture. Strangely, Griffith's untenable “goy in the hood” turn ...
Less talk, more fisticuffs, por favor. The sweet science falls prey to yet another boxing debacle, this one on the screen as opposed to in the ring. For Avila's debut film, he has chosen former boxing ...
Priceless (2006, 104 min., PG-13)
Amélie's ingratiating Audrey Tautou co-stars as a gold-digging gamine on the make in the south of France.
Pride (2007, 104 min., PG)
Based on the true story of Jim Ellis, who created a nationally respected swimming program from an abandoned community center, Pride is a by-the-book sports film.
Pride (2014, 120 min., R)
In this inspirational true story, striking Welsh miners and the local LGBT community find common bonds.
This fresh adaptation of Jane Austen’s masterpiece starring Keira Knightley presents a witty and lovesick skirmish of the sexes that exceeds all expectations.
Edward Norton and Colin Farrell top this predictable police procedural about clean and dirty cops who are also brothers in a family of Irish cops.
The mash-up title just about says it all
Priest (2011, 87 min., PG-13)
A warrior priest is on a mission to recapture his niece from murderous vampires.
An audacious, compelling film that examines the lives of two diametrically opposed yet fundamentally similar Catholic priests in modern Liverpool. Young Father Greg (electrifyingly played by Roache, a relative newcomer to the screen) is the new ...
When a beloved Chicago archbishop is brutally murdered, celebrated criminal defense lawyer Martin Vail (Gere) pounces on the case. His client is Aaron Stampler (Norton), a 19-year-old runaway-turned-altar boy who was found fleeing the scene, covered ...
It's uncanny: the pasty, puffy physique; the graying blow-dried hair; the throaty drawl; the direct eye contact; the instincts of a born politician. But for all the detail captured by Travolta in his role as the ...
Prime (2005, 105 min., PG-13)
With genuine sparks between its two lovestruck leads and a delightfully flinchy performance from Meryl Streep, this comedy is just what its title implies: prime.