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Your favorite creepy neighbors are back, and kid friendly
It took decades to finally bring a worthy film version of Charles Addams' eerie cartoon family to the screen, but here it is. First-time director Sonnenfeld (previously the director of photography on such films as Misery, ...
Addicted (2014, 105 min., R)
This erotic thriller is based on the best-selling novel by Zane.
Natasha Lyonne and Judy Greer co-star as sisters in off-color comedy
When lovesick small-town astronomer Sam (Broderick) loses his one true love Linda (Preston) to the thrall of the big city, he packs up his things and goes in search of her, sure in his heart that ...
The movies of Abel Ferrara (Ms. 45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant) are not meant to go down easily, and The Addiction is surely his most uncompromising effort yet. Shot for a small budget in ...
Noah Render (Koteas) spends his days, his nights, and every waking hour in between, working as a claims adjuster for his insurance firm. To his clients -- displaced people whose lives have been turned inside out ...
Based on a Philip K. Dick story, this multilayered romantic thriller stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.
Admission (2013, 117 min., PG-13)
Tina Fey and Paul Rudd go rom-drahm, while Lily Tomlin runs circles around everyone.
Adoration (2008, 100 min., R)
Atom Egoyan returns ambitiously to form with this probing, if not always successful, drama that reveals his ongoing fascination with the subjective nature of truth.
So much of what passes for American pop culture in the movies these days -- from the work of Quentin Tarantino and his million-and-one knockoffs to the manic comic roustabouts of the Farrellys and other laff-masters ...
Adrift (2018, 96 min., PG-13)
True-life survival adventure stays afloat because of Shailene Woodley
After failing in enterprise, a man returns to his childhood home
Adventureland is a confident return to the kind of teen comedy that’s funny without being raunchy and youthful without being juvenile.
Popular Hong Kong singer-actor Andy Lau Tak-wah stars as a vengeance-obsessed air force pilot in Ringo Lam's latest effort, The Adventurers -- a less-than-perfect, but adequately entertaining action/melodrama that overcomes its clichéd plotting thanks to some ...
It seems blasphemous to say anything bad about the Sesame Street gang. I have visions of waking one morning to find an irate Gonzo perched on my chest, his fuzzy, matted blue paws battering me insensate ...
Recently laid off from his dock worker job in Normandy, Felix (Bouajila) bids farewell to his lover and hits the road, with the plan of walking to Marseilles to find the father he's never known. HIV-positive ...
It's hard to know who might be the targeted audience for this seventh film adaptation of Mark Twain's classic novel. Some of the material is simply too scary for kids yet this rendition has also been ...
In The Adventures of Pinocchio, director Steve Barron (Coneheads, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) assumes a daunting task in retelling the classic story of the wooden puppet and his kindly “father” Geppetto that was brilliantly brought to ...
I have to admit being at least a little bit curious about a film whose release dates have been shuffled more times than a tired deck of cards and was not screened for critics anywhere in ...
All Power wants is to be the best possible air drummer he can be.
A trio of “showgirls” – two drag queens and one transgender woman – venture out of tolerant, big-city Sydney and into the wilds of central Australia.
Rocket J. Squirrel (voiced by June Foray) and Bullwinkle J. Moose (voiced by Keith Scott) return after a 35-year absence in this wildly uneven but occasionally hilarious updating that takes the animated duo and pits them ...
Robert Rodriguez adds a dimension with this kids fantasy movie, but only in the most literal sense – 3-D.
Steven Spielberg brings Hergé's comic books to animated life.
Aeon Flux (2005, 95 min., PG-13)
Its heart is in the right place, but Aeon Flux's head is just a little too high to make much sense.
Ballooning adventure never drops its baffling meet-cute ballast
"Some days I feel just like a whipped dog," says Wade Whitehouse (Nolte). The sad, uncomprehending look in his eyes both confirms his words and foreshadows the ones that follow: "… someday, I swear, I'm gonna ...
In Afghanistan's version of American Idol, there's a lot more at stake than the glory.
Afire (2023, 102 min., NR)
Summer retreat becomes a point of friction in this sure-footed melodrama