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From Paris With Love
Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays an American diplomat in Paris who is paired with a wise-cracking, trigger-happy CIA maverick (John Travolta) to stop a terrorist attack.
"...Wax declares, ending Reece’s illusion they’re chasing cocaine traffickers. Nothing more than those three words needs to be said;..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Informant!
Soderbergh's corporate whistleblower comedy is tuned in the key of Richard Lester.
"...that holds the movie together. Ultimately, the film cares nothing about the evils of corporate price-fixing nor the exposure..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Matthew McConaughey stars as an oily womanizer who does an about-face in this purported romantic comedy.
"...already undressing his next lay. Love, he argues, is nothing more than "magical comfort food for the weak and..."

May 1, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Prom Night
A remake of the Eighties horror film in name only, Prom Night is a nearly bloodless slasher film with few surprises.
"...jack-in-the-box. It's blandly scripted by J.S. Cardone, who adds nothing new to a genre that has already expired and..."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hitman
Like the video game that inspired this film, Hitman is a brain-dead pleasure bomb.
"...CIA, and his own mysterious past. Still, Hitman is nothing if not a brain-dead pleasure bomb. It is, indeed,..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Cat and Mouse
Slipping in and out of dreams, films, and comics, in which nothing is revealed
"...There really is nothing like the sweet drowning in cheap melancholy when one..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Halloween
Michael Myers is back in this "reimagining," courtesy of Rob Zombie.
"...on a slick and slippery slope. Halloween '07 is nothing if not viewable through the crimson-tinted cheaters of its..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

300
Both Frank Miller's comic about the legendary battle of Thermopylae and Zack Snyder's cinematic adaptation are bloodthirsty affairs, awash in spectacle.
"...On the geopolitical military tip (and ancient Greece was nothing if not geopolitical), it's notable that these 300 bearded..."

March 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

One Night With the King
Despite a title that makes it sound like a tell-all about a one-night-stand with Elvis Presley, this movie is actually about the Jewish heroine, Queen Esther.
"...see a religious film in wide release that has nothing to do with Jesus Christ, the New Testament, Christian..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Da Vinci Code
Faithful adaptation of Dan Brown's bestseller treats the novel as if it were a sacred text even though it's basically a Hardy Boys mystery dressed up in provocative attire.
"...you're open-minded to that sort of thing.) Still, there's nothing transcendent about his direction or anything else in the..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Kinky Boots
One man's ailing boot factory and a transvestite's need for extra-large thigh-highs become a perfect match in this British comedy about tolerance.
"...romp that somehow snagged a lenient PG-13 rating. It's nothing of the sort at all, but if you've seen..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Freedomland
This Richard Price story about simmering racial tension that boils over during the course of a police investigation is choppy and erratic.
"...lies not in the plotting alone. Roth's direction does nothing to bring clarity to the story and its characters,..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Underworld: Evolution
This tale of the ongoing hostilities between vampires and werewolves is pockmarked by the discordant likes of Puscifer and Slipknot.
"...– and note that horrific set-pieces gain less than nothing when overlaid with a splash of pummeling nü-metal. Morrissey,..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Derailed
The first release from the new Weinstein Co. is this thriller starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen that never fully engages our sympathies.
"...noble brow, you can generally be assured that it’s nothing altogether pleasant. Owen is the best thing about Derailed,..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Côte D'Azur
The French still like to get their sex on, a fact confirmed again and again in this breezy, featherweight sex farce.
"...travelogue with a side order of R-rated humpiness. If nothing else, it made me swear to make it to..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

9 Songs
Michael Winterbottom creates scenester porn in which he records the evolution of a man and a woman's relationship through sex and music – exclusively.
"...in slow-motion because it looks so bloody cool. There’s nothing wrong with the film conceptually besides the goofy, ponderous..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Garfield: The Movie
Garfield Declawed is the result of taking this comic strip to the big screen.
"...isn’t – busy, ingratiating, too-cute, and smarmy – and nothing it is – dyspeptic, laconic, subversively attuned to the..."

June 11, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Millennium Actress
This Japanimation import is a sweeping romantic saga full of big, lush ideas.
"...Directed by: Satoshi Kon. Absolutely nothing like that other recent Japanimation import – Tamala 2010:..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gigli
"...however, throws his leads in the deep end with nothing to do but flap around and try to embody..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Man on the Train
"...major surgery on the day of the heist. Although nothing alike, each man comes to realize he envies the..."

May 23, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kangaroo Jack
"...trough full of salt. Beyond that marsupial charmer, there's nothing to recommend the film: certainly not the weak script,..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Star Trek: Nemesis
"...was dense sci-fi fun. (And you can bet there's nothing in Nemesis -- or any of the others, for..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Solaris
"...Nothing here is predetermined -- not the ending, the progression,..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shallow Hal
"...movie's basic beliefs argues that ideal beauty looks like nothing less than Gwyneth Paltrow. They can yank the actress..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lost and Delirious
"...Greene. Prep school girls in knee socks … and nothing else! Lost and Delirious could have come off like..."

July 20, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Baby Boy
"...makes Baby Boy a work worth supporting -- if nothing else, its thematic originality makes it a unique and..."

June 29, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Company Man
"...one-liners, and lengthy gags that build and build to nothing more than downward-sloping plateaus. I'm astonished that even at..."

March 30, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lies
"...and violence that many critics have derided it as nothing short of hardcore porn. Its curious structure and neo-neo-realistic..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Finding Forrester
"...hallucinogenic reveries. So what's so awful about Finding Forrester? Nothing, really. That's sort of the problem. It's a soft,..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dark Days
"...breaks down and weeps, alone in the dark with nothing but Singer and his camera. It's an awful scene,..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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