The Luv Doc: Trying to Be Attractive

Carefully cultivating a look of masculine nonchalance

"...if men spent as much energy trying to be attractive as women do?..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

Imagine Me & You

A traditional romantic comedy with a lesbian twist, Imagine Me and You has its charms, but for a movie about loving radically, it sure plays it safe.

"...British Ensemble Romantic-Comedy Scenario No. 3: Broody bride sees attractive stranger at the wedding, questions the possibility of Love..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Where's My Roy Cohn?

The man who taught Trump to be a monster

"...consigliere to murderous mafioso dons, and flamboyantly consorted with attractive younger men but went to his grave denying his..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Back to Burgundy

French drama tries to find life lessons in the vineyard.

"...the vision in this film. The siblings are an attractive bunch, capable of evoking the loving but complicated links..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lure

The Polish Mermaid musical you never knew you needed

"...including a father-cum-showrunner (Malanowicz) and aging chanteuse mother (Preis). Attractive, young, and ostensibly human, the duo join the act,..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Far From the Madding Crowd

This Thomas Hardy adaptation is a reflection of our times

"...Lady.” That’s lady with a lower-case l; while the attractive, educated, and sharply independent Bathsheba Everdene (Mulligan) does inherit..."

May 8, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Lazarus Effect

Medical students try to bring the dead back to life.

"...Our crew of intrepid, attractive med students are led by the long-engaged Frank (Duplass)..."

March 6, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Evil Dead

Fans of the original horror trilogy have nothing to fear from this gory new reworking.

"...The template is familiar: Five attractive young adults are holed up in a remote cabin..."

April 5, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spring Breakers

In turns appealing and horrifying, those contrasts are at the heart of Harmony Korine’s latest outing.

"...in a more populist key in Spring Breakers, using attractive, scantily clad young women (a couple of them Disney..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life as We Know It

It's Two Singletons and a Baby, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel.

"...Clagett. With its sitcom-ready premise and its engaging and attractive leads, Life as We Know It lives up to..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sex and the City 2

Two years after the end of the last film, Carrie Bradshaw now frets that the "sparkle" has gone out of her marriage. It's gone from this movie, too.

"...are no fun at all: frequently preposterous, yes, but attractive and aspirational, no. Scenes of Carrie back home with..."

May 28, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Over Her Dead Body

In this DOA romantic comedy, Eva Longoria Parker plays a ghost who haunts her former fiancé-to-be when it's time for him to move on.

"...cashing in), and to wreak supernatural havoc on an attractive psychic (Bell) who’s using her gifts to wrangle Henry..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

License to Wed

A couple seeks connubial advice from a celibate with an affinity for Popeye impressions.

"...particularly deflating. Warner Bros.' latest half-hearted misstep follows two attractive twentysomethings, Ben (Krasinski, from NBC’s The Office) and Sadie..."

July 6, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Jesus Camp

This film is not a freak show or exposé but rather a call to arms to pick sides in the deepening cultural, political, and spiritual schism between the two Americas of the 21st century.

"...Pennebaker school. It makes clear that evangelicalism is legitimately attractive to children, even without go-karts and hiking: The kids..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Head in the Clouds

Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, and Penelope Cruz co-star in this stilted romantic drama set against the background of Europe between the wars.

"...war, passion, and conscience, but winds up with only attractive window dressing and abstractions that never manage to pass..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

A Hollywood vessel of doom hunts for the Big Squeeze.

"...spiders! headhunters!). The actors – who are all uncommonly attractive for medical researchers – paddle furiously against the movie’s..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Mad Love

"...soap opera at heart, albeit an accomplished and particularly attractive one. Liotti, an Italian television actor to whom the..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Amati Girls

"...no doubt one of the attributes that made it attractive to mini-distributor Providence Entertainment, which also released the Christian..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Swindle

"...the relationship between two modestly successful French con-gamers: an attractive fortyish woman named Betty (Huppert) and partner Victor (Serrault),..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Love and Other Catastrophes

"...Love's real heartbeat is the sheer likability of its attractive young cast and the earnest naïveté with which they..."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Paperback Romance

"...part, by the natural chemistry shared by its two attractive stars, Paperback Romance has all the time-tested elements you'd..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

A Taste of Killing and Romance

"...make matters worse, stars Lau and Yuen, while both attractive and capable performers, just aren't at their best when..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

I.Q.

"...Lugosi. Robbins and Ryan are effective as two very attractive geeks, but the story is not strong enough to..."

Jan. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Spanking the Monkey

"...won't allow him any peace. Ray's mother is an attractive, fortyish woman, yet certainly no Mrs. Robinson vamp. But..."

Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bad Behavior

"...But then, that's what makes the film so unassumingly attractive and appealing and, ultimately, affecting; it is about the..."

Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Rudy

"...towards his goal. Remarkably, Astin builds Rudy into an attractive character, and the film is littered with fine performances...."

Oct. 22, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Married to It

"...they sit across from each other, none a particularly attractive person. It's the first dinner party and they are..."

April 2, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Opposite Sex (And How to Live With Them)

"...whammo – she decides that he is cute and attractive, even if all he seems to be interested in..."

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Swing Kids

"...Whaley, Barbara Hershey and Kenneth Branagh. Naïve yet eternally attractive is the idea that a generation can change the..."

March 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Traces of Red

"...cruelly miscast as a Palm Springs detective who's fatally attractive to women. Yet it would be a mistake to..."

Sept. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

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