The Lucky One
This latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks bestseller is timelessly shopworn.
"...that tend to accompany real-life romance. For all its soap-opera psychodrama, The Lucky One is pretty boilerplate stuff, with..."
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April 20, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Brooklyn's Finest
Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, and Don Cheadle star in this clichéd police drama that's capped by an outlandish third act.
"...for another go-round in Brooklyn’s Finest, Fuqua’s latest cop opera, where he’s joined by Gere and Cheadle in the..."
March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Spy Next Door
Jackie Chan plays an undercover CIA agent who turns out to be a disastrous babysitter for his girlfriend's three kids.
"...Chan who contorted (and frequently fractured) his lithe, Peking Opera-trained body into a spellbinding, often comic, acrobatic exclamation point..."
Jan. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Tetro
Francis Ford Coppola embraces smaller-scale filmmaking with this story about the reunion of estranged brothers in Buenos Aires.
"...hooks and dramatic content. Tetro is designed like an opera but plays like a power ballad. Gloriously filmed in..."
Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Lake City
A heavy-handed melodrama that features a young, brooding antihero and Sissy Spacek as his emotionally paralyzed mom.
"...the perfect overblown protagonist for the perfect overcooked soap opera, one in which writer/directors Hill and Moore have mixed..."
Dec. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
The Painted Veil
Set in China and starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, and Liev Schreiber, this melodic adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel is the story of many things – but it is most of all the story of a marriage.
"...civil servant gone native, the obligatory scene of Peking opera, and pastoral beauty shots by Stuart Dryburgh, Jane Campion’s..."
Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Guadalupe
Guadalupe is amateur hour dressed up in ecclesiastical purple: a poorly drawn, poorly directed, and poorly acted attempt to film something of weight and religious significance.
"...the Rose, Guadalupe settles instead for being pure soap opera, drenching itself in sweeping violins, clichéd domestic dramas, and..."
Dec. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Miami Vice
Perhaps vice isn't what it used to be, or maybe Crockett and Tubbs don't belong in this new time slot, but Michael Mann's movie turns out to be dreary and monochromatic.
"...edgy (read: underlit) take on the vacuous Eighties television cop-opera takes perhaps one too many cues from its cathode..."
July 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Medallion
Furthering his American decline, Jackie Chan will wins no medallions for this stinker.
"...just that, and makes for one of the Peking Opera-trained superstar’s most mediocre films, rivaling last year’s God-awful The..."
Aug. 22, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Recruit
"...goes a long way toward making this celluloid CIA operation a fairly fun ride for the viewer. These three..."
Jan. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Tuxedo
"...industry for their inexcusable crime of wasting the Peking Opera-trained talents of Jackie Chan in this dull, witless, and..."
Oct. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Mad Love
"...up to eleven. But Mad Love is a soap opera at heart, albeit an accomplished and particularly attractive one...."
Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
The Man Who Wasn't There
The story is rife with the Coens' ripe ambivalence, a black seriocomic opera of fouled-up American dreams, and a meditation on ambivalence that is itself often as ambiguous as the emotional meanderings of its protagonist, a small-town barber. The film's black-and-white image processing is stunning.
"...rife with the Coens' ripe ambivalence, a black seriocomic opera of fouled-up American dreams, and a meditation on ambivalence..."
Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Chunhyang
"...up the proceedings by intercutting shots of legendary Korean opera star Cho Sang Hyun singing the events beneath a..."
Feb. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
All the Pretty Horses
"...Instead, All the Pretty Horses is a more-than-decent horse opera with some good performances and better-than-average dialogue and themes..."
Dec. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Tao of Steve
Easygoing romantic comedy about an unlikely ladies' man.
"...director's sister), a set decorator for the Santa Fe Opera who initially finds him repellent and then ends up..."
Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Shanghai Noon
"...fight scenes here were choreographed by Chan's old Peking Opera pal Biao Yuen, and although adherents of Chan's Drunken..."
May 26, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Last September
"...her feature film debut after a notable career directing opera and theatre. But like her characters who continue with..."
May 5, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Cotton Mary
"...normally the team's producing half -- unfolds his soap opera-ish tale of class conflict and resentment in the post-Colonial..."
April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith
My Best Fiend
"...film, a mad dream about rivers and death and opera houses, has Kinski and his team hauling a huge,..."
March 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
King of Masks
"...the doomy ambivalence of the tale, Zhu and newcomer/Peking Opera acrobat Zhou strike sentimental fire onscreen, rekindling each other's..."
June 11, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Olympia
"...knocked off kilter by the decision of Mexican soap opera queen Olympia to quit acting and train to be..."
Nov. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Guantanamera
"...of the same name. Yoyita (Brando), a world-famous Cuban opera singer, returns to Havana, the city she left 50..."
Oct. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Latin Boys Go to Hell
"...to Hell aspires to be: Melodrama? Parody? Psychodrama? Soap opera? Tragedy? Or is it all of the above? Whatever..."
Sept. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Steve Davis
A Perfect Candidate
"...be a circus sideshow in the guise of grand opera...."
Oct. 11, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
This cinematic pop opera is a disorienting, strange experience at first – every word is sung, even the most banal of dialogue. The simple yet sophisticated French film tells the story of two star-crossed lovers, a 16-year-old shopgirl and her gas-station attendant sweetheart, without any apology for the unashamedly romantic heart.
"...Vernon, Marc Michel and Ellen Farner. This cinematic pop opera is a disorienting, strange experience at first -- every..."
July 19, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis
The Final Option
"...surprisingly pedestrian police melodrama, marred by an overdose of soap-opera melodramatics and an overreliance on formula plotting. Ho Chi-wai..."
May 3, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan
Love in the Time of Twilight
"...effort from famed Hong Kong genre-bender Tsui Hark (Peking Opera Blues). Since Hark has gone out of his way..."
April 12, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan
Drunken Master
Jackie Chan's kung fu/comedy classic turns a folk legend on its ear.
"...set pieces. The chemistry between Chan and legendary Peking Opera actor Simon Yuen, playing his newfound master, continues the..."
Aug. 18, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan
My Father is a Hero
"...adventure that, despite some haphazard plotting and over-reliance on soap-opera melodramatics, should prove to be a good time for..."
June 30, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan
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