Starring:
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Christina
A…
Review:
If you’re expecting Martin Scorsese to do a Last Waltz
number on the Rolling Stones, snap out of it. No way are the Stones
the departed. No way are they ready for a farewell concert like the
classic 1978 elegy Scorsese did for the Band. In Shine a
Light, the Stones […]

Starring:
George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, John Krasinski, Jonathan Pryce,
…
Review:
He belongs to two churches — film and football — and
George Clooney worships at both in Leatherheads, a scrappy
debate on the rules we live by disguised as a screwball comedy. In
his third shot at directing, following two savvy meditations on
media and politics (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and
Good […]

Starring:
Steven Strait, Camilla Belle
Review:
Call it Apocalypto for pussies — a PG-13 rating,
puh-leese! — or prehistory for peabrains. Just don?t call it
friendo. 10,000 B.C. will take your money, rob your time
and hit your brain like a shot of Novacaine. The best acting comes
from woolly mammoths, man-eating ostriches and a saber-toothed
tiger — and those babies are digital. […]

Starring:
Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner
Review:
Dull title for a juicy, fact-based caper movie that’s full of
surpgoes up I have no intention of spoiling. I’ll say this. In 1971,
a robbery took place at Lloyds Bank in London that involved a royal
sex scandal. The thieves, played here by Brit athlete and model
turned credible actor Jason […]

Starring:
Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Benedict
Cumberba…
Review:
Guys may assume the film version of Philippa Gregory’s chick-lit
bestseller about two Boleyn sisters who bed Henry VIII as a way to
secure the fortune of their pimp family, is a form of dude torture.
They’re wrong. And not because first-time director Justin Chadwick
does a consummate job of bringing Peter Morgan’s […]

Starring:
Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Benedict
Cumberba…
Review:
Guys may assume the film version of Philippa Gregory’s chick-lit
bestseller about two Boleyn sisters who bed Henry VIII as a way to
secure the fortune of their pimp family, is a form of dude torture.
They’re wrong. And not because first-time director Justin Chadwick
does a consummate job of bringing Peter Morgan’s […]

Starring:
Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller, Lauren
McKin…
Review:
In a multiplex front-loaded with cheap jolts (Vantage
Point) and cheaper jokes (how psyched are you to see
College Road Trip?), filmmaker Gus Van Sant gives us a
haunting tone poem laced with violent death. The setting is
Portland, Oregon, where Van Sant lives and where Paranoid Park
attracts the city’s riskier […]

Starring:
Andre Benjamin, Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson
Review:
Whether he gets naked and shows his flabby parts or not, Will
Ferrell makes me laugh. And he does it in hit movies (Elf,
Old School, Anchorman, Talladega Nights,
Blades of Glory), horrible movies (The Producers,
Bewitched, Kicking and Screaming) and movies
where directors edge him into a fewthing deeper (Woody Allen’s
Melinda and Melinda, Marc […]

Starring:
Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O’Hara, Reese
Witherspoo…
Review:
On the shelf for two years and deserving of a mercy killing, this
modern fairy tale stars Christina Ricci (get this girl a good
movie, pronto) as Penelope, an heiress born with the snout of a
pig. The love of another snob can cure her, but her suitors run
away in horror, which […]

Starring:
Martin Lawrence, Margaret Avery, Joy Bryant, Louis C.K., Michael
…
Review:
The photo department does another kindness by not including the
likeness of Martin Lawrence, trapped in the starring role of a
black Dr. Phil, who takes his lady love (Joy Bryant) home to
Georgia to meet the kinfolk. Actors such as Michael Clarke Duncan,
Mo’Nique, Mike Epps and Cedric the Entertainer […]