Aquamarine
Based on a young adult novel by Alice Hoffman, the film is about two best girlfriends who meet up with … a mermaid!
"...a vintage store. And while I don’t want to give the ending away, it turns out that the whole..."
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March 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Derailed
The first release from the new Weinstein Co. is this thriller starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen that never fully engages our sympathies.
"...loving wife, Deanna (George), and enough personal problems to give Job a run for his shekels. His daughter’s juvenile..."
Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Fog
This hazy remake pales in comparison to John Carpenter's original fogbanks from 1980.
"...and, bizarrely, an African-American sidekick-cum-first-mate (Davis) apparently onboard to give the script an entirely unnecessary dose of urban spin...."
Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Burton's best work in ages is eye candy of the highest order and as eminently watchable as a hilltop Halloween pyre or a Día de los Muertos parade run amok.
"...Giant Peach) the art direction by Nelson Lowry, which give Burton and Johnson’s film a magnificent polish, making it..."
Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Les Choristes
A box-office smash in its native France, this kindly and spirited film doesn’t exactly break the mold of the heartwarming, humanistic boarding-school dramedy.
"...short-pantsed ragamuffins through mahogany-paneled stairwells, shouting, "I’m going to give you the flogging of your life!" We know the..."
May 20, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
A Tree of Palme
It's the Pinocchio story filtered through the prism of cyberpunk animé.
"...bursting with enough cinematic allusions and philosophical meditations to give all of the robots in A.I. a run for..."
Feb. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg’s magical tale of the Christmas Eve re-education of a Santa-doubting adolescent gets the motion-capture treatment.
"...affair. It’s unnerving, frankly, and adult viewers will be forgiven for wondering when Rod Serling is going to step..."
Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Rick
Directed by Gus Van Sant's longtime editor and written by Lemony Snicket author Daniel Handler, Rick is a harsh but compelling tale that loosely mixes tragedy and comedy.
"...games. It’s a frequently riveting gambit, and the actors give it their all. However, the mood and the stylized..."
Oct. 15, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Prince & Me
Who says you can't be a princess and go to medical school too?
"...too?) The message – that no young woman should give up her dreams for the sake of a guy..."
April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Bona fide "art" movie starring this season's It Girl, Scarlett Johansson, is as flat and enigmatic as the titular portrait by Vermeer.
"...sets all these possibilities in motion, he fails to give them any space to grow. His movie just lies..."
Jan. 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Butterfly Effect
Ashton Kutcher lays to waste a promising script involving time travel and unforeseeable consequences.
"...upon to run a gamut of emotions that would give James Dean pause, from heart-rending sorrow to depression to..."
Jan. 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Yossi & Jagger
Gay lovers in the Israeli army also suffer the effects of a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
"...Although a narrative film, the locations and hand-held camerawork give Yossi & Jagger a naturalistic feel that helps foster..."
Jan. 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Runaway Jury
John Grisham courtroom thumper marches to a familiar tune.
"...Hackman’s bravado and bluster as the swaggering Rankin Fitch give the film its life. When Fitch senses that his..."
Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Prey for Rock & Roll
Gina Gershon plays a rock & roll grrrl pushing 40.
"...and personal response to its intrinsic question: Should you give it up after so many years of banging your..."
Oct. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Heart of Me
"...film’s temporal shifts between the pre- and postwar years give it a sense of revelation that keeps the narrative..."
July 25, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
"...about. Lizzie’s apparent fascination with boys and clothes may give modern moms pause, but you can bet your body..."
May 9, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Daddy Day Care
"...looking at this film from any other perspective will give you brain rot...."
May 9, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Tears of the Sun
"...utterly inconsequential and thoroughly depressing bloodbath was made. To give Willis a chance to strut his cammo-painted stuff? Or..."
March 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Hours
"...modern-day Mrs. Dalloway in the midst of preparing to give a party, a middle-aged woman existentially unraveling as she..."
Jan. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Catch Me If You Can
The film is based on the autobiography by Frank Abagnale Jr., who at the tender age of 17 led the FBI and various other law enforcement agencies on a giddy global romp while he kited, forged, and manufactured checks over a four-year period.
"...by Frank Abagnale Jr., Catch Me if You Can gives us the rosy-cheeked DiCaprio as Abagnale, who at the..."
Dec. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Analyze That
"...merely end up the sort of labored gags that give most ex-SNL cast-member outings their familiar patina. De Niro..."
Dec. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Full Frontal
"...Steven Soderbergh, would we care as much? Would we forgive the whole-hearted but half-assed mess it is? Possibly, but..."
Aug. 2, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Men in Black II
"...Baker's fantastic and relentlessly inspired menagerie of aliens that give the film more zing than its bare-bones plot could..."
July 5, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Adapted for film from the off-Broadway musical hit, this movie is a rousing screen spectacle about a surgically botched transsexual from East Germany (played charismatically by John Cameron Mitchell, the show's creator and film director).
"...perpetuators of song-and-dance camp who might be ready to give The Rocky Horror Picture Show another inch -- or..."
Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Ghost World
Brilliant portrait of teen anomie is based on the underground comic book by Daniel Clowes.
"...and trendiness that increasingly dumb down modern life and give it a ghostly appearance. Enid is smarter than most,..."
Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Fast Food Fast Women
"...inexplicably but somehow predictably, in a peep-show booth and gives Paul nightly shows for free, and you've got a..."
Aug. 17, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Baise-Moi
"...role of sexual aggressors in a fashion that would give Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer a run for..."
July 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Kiss of the Dragon
"...set-piece after set-piece, each and every one designed to give Li the opportunity to do what he does best:..."
July 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Calle 54
Superstars of Latin jazz are captured as they perform in the studio.
"...Sony Studios on New York City's 54th Street) that give weight to such a bold remark. The technique on..."
June 22, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Sweet November
"...his life for the better if he will only give her 30 days to do it in. Initially resistant,..."
