CJ7

Known for his manic comedic style, Chinese filmmaker Stephen Chow tries his hand at a kids movie, but sadly, the result is a cutesy and sentimental story we've seen dozens of times before.

"...sure to be disappointed by CJ7, and the film faces one other significant problem in traveling to these shores:..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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Kevin Spacey plays Mephistopheles to a cadre of M.I.T. whiz kids, who do a better job of counting cards at the Vegas blackjack tables than counting their loot.

"...Vegas montages of cards, lights, money, and pretty, young faces in thrall to the gods of self-made fortunes and..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Band's Visit

A lost band of Egyptian musicians from a police orchestra find refuge with some Israeli townspeople.

"...and François Khell. With their epaulet-fringed uniforms and expressionless faces, the eight members of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Ten Commandments

This family-oriented adaptation of the Book of Exodus is the inaugural film in a planned franchise of crudely animated Bible stories.

"...of a better description – downright creepy. The characters’ faces are oddly angular, as if rendered from a Cubist..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

For the Bible Tells Me So

Various men and women of the cloth provide a systematic dismantling of the idea that the Bible condemns homosexuality.

"...social forces clashing, five families struggle through and put faces to the issue. (Also we have the Gephardt family..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Trade

This drama about international sex trafficking is tremendously sincere but also brutal.

"...but at times brutal drama about international sex trafficking faces two hurdles. First, Kreuzpaintner (Summer Storm) must make real..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Firehouse Dog

A Hollywood pooch gets lost during a stunt and ends up a stray outside a downtown firehouse captained by a single dad with a stubborn school-skipping son.

"...we can use computer technology to give dogs goofy faces, that doesn’t mean we should...."

April 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Babel

Four disparate stories are woven into an eloquent and electrifying depiction of mankind's increasingly fractured state.

"...score (by Argentinian composer Gustavo Santaolalla) to its famous faces (here scrubbed clean of the protective veneer of the..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Army of Shadows

Although made in 1969, this French masterpiece by Jean-Pierre Melville is receiving its first stateside release.

"...the manner in which it is carried out, with faces fully visible to the victim, inspires respect amid the..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Time to Leave

This oddly dispassionate film about a young man dying of cancer is the French antidote to those Hollywood weepies in which the heroine courageously faces her own mortality with every hair in place.

"...to those Hollywood weepies in which the heroine courageously faces her own mortality with every hair in place. In..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A History of Violence

Cronenberg's new horror film implicitly tackles the old question of nature vs. nurture: What are we born with and what do we acquire from our environment?

"...said, Cronenberg doesn’t stint on violent imagery: We see faces blown off with shotguns, pools of blood, violent sex,..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

MirrorMask

The work of fantasist Neil Gaiman finally makes it to the screen with its innate sense of wonder intact, despite this sporadically overstuffed package of magic, mystery, and masked madwomen.

"...lifelike masks or, in lieu of that, sport human faces atop impossible animal bodies. There she teams up with..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hitch

What should be a battle of the sexes is more like a brief skirmish without any of the romantic tension that makes for an interesting – much less great – screen pairing.

"...Arkin. Will Smith has one of those most approachable faces in movies today – those sleepy eyes, that inviting..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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.

"...word fits), who, with their big ears and pug faces, look like micronaut Bowery Boys on a snowblowing bender...."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Will Ferrell's Anchorman needs more work behind the scenes.

"...is more of the same from Ferrell – funny faces, goofy accents, pratfalls aplenty – and that ain’t bad...."

July 9, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Terminal

Steven Spielberg enters his Capra period with this optimistic melting-pot tale starring pal Tom Hanks, whose underused comic instincts come to the fore.

"...optimistic world-view that features a melting pot of American faces, most of whom want to do good if given..."

June 18, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

Biopic of the only person to have ever won golf's grand slam.

"...of his natural aptitude for golf, the challenge he faces in learning to curb his temper on the golf..."

April 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Laurel Canyon

"...but the camera is fixed on all the wrong faces, most egregiously on the wooden Bale’s. His Sam speaks..."

April 11, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Powerpuff Girls Movie

"...to exit theatres post-Puffery without silly grins on their faces and the urge to save the world in their..."

July 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Chai

"...press time. Sureel is a young, first-generation Indian-American who faces telling his strict and traditional parents the real truth..."

May 31, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Visitor Q

"...(look it up), but also of gleefully rubbing viewers' faces in the puerile and the ghastly. His films --..."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

You Can Count On Me

"...from the precise and delicate maneuverings of the actors' faces. We know they have something to say, even if..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Patriot

"...while much emotional pull is attached to the angelic faces of the children and a couple of love-interest subplots,..."

June 30, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gossip

"...and Eric Bogosian. A slick premise underlies this week's fresh-new-faces youth movie. For a term project, a group of..."

April 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black and White

"...the get-go, Toback hurls all his ideas in our faces -- the best example being the al fresco three-way..."

April 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All About My Mother

All About My Mother merges all of Almodóvar's noted preoccupations with women on the verge of nervous breakdowns, screwball melodramas, and flamboyant visual touches with a cohesive – and universal – story about the faces and roles we all adopt in public.

"...a cohesive -- and universal -- story about the faces and roles we all adopt in public. In telling..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

On the Ropes

"...A portrait in moxie and hardbody resilience, she nevertheless faces the possibility of the worst outcome of the lot...."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Doug's First Movie

"...fan of creator Jim Jinkins' colorful characters with purple faces and green hair, you'll overlook these things and enjoy..."

March 26, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Thin Red Line

Malick's return to filmmakng after a 20-year absence is this WWII story based on James Jones' Guadalcanal novel. The film is a lyrical and introverted study of the curiously destructive relationship between man and nature.

"...the unvarnished expression of fear and trepidation on the faces of sane men who are staring into the maw..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Marius and Jeannette

"...your average movie twosome. They are 40ish lovers whose faces are appealing though not gorgeous, whose bodies have been..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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