The Holiday

Nancy Meyers’ follow-up to Something’s Gotta Give mines the same go-girl terrain but is far less interesting, featuring stock characterizations and a blandly upbeat vibe.

"...the wrong side of the road, and Jude Law stumbles in drunkenly one night, available for sex but not..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Ice Age: The Meltdown

An exercise in the superfluous, this sequel lacks the original film’s geniality – and all of its pro-environment stumping.

"...sequel lost in the mix – Manny the Mammoth Stumbles Across the Holy Grail, perhaps? – or Ice Age:..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Albert Brooks again sallies forth where others fear to tread, although his comic results are more mildly amusing than riotously funny.

"...worlds with both sage and comic observations. More recent stumbles, like the godawful The Muse, seem calculated to make..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2005

Spike & Mike has always been a hit-or-miss program, and this year is no different, with a few genuinely brilliant pieces surrounded by examples of puerile fun and juvenile humor.

"...a stubborn sort of unflappable continuity, marked by occasional stumbles into the realm of genius. In the past, Spike..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Catwoman

The fur flies as Halle Berry tempts us in leather.

"...murdered by her wealthy cosmetics company employers when she stumbles (literally) upon the unholy secret of their … moisturizing..."

July 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jersey Girl

Ben Affleck plays a widower dad in this family dramedy from an uncustomarily sweet Kevin Smith.

"...the only polite course of action. But if Affleck stumbles, Smith’s script does nothing to catch his fall. Surprisingly,..."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Human Stain

Despite some terrific moments, Philip Roth's words fail to stick to the screen.

"...than this dance, and in that respect the director stumbles...."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dirty Pretty Things

Stephen Frears’ low-key thriller casts its eye toward the furtive lives of London’s illegal immigrants.

"...is necessary to survive (without relinquishing her virginity), Okwe stumbles into some nasty doings at the hotel, which involve..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Sum of All Fears

Tom Clancy's CIA agent Jack Ryan makes his fourth film appearance in this thriller.

"...notes a trio of missing Russian nuclear scientists and stumbles, literally, into a plot by unknown forces to build..."

May 31, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Majestic

"...With the help of a kindly older gent, Peter stumbles into the nearby town of Lawson and is quickly..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Waking Life

This animated journey through one character's dreams is a stirring, motivational, and metaphysical head trip.

"...-- a motivational, metaphysical head trip. Sure, sometimes it stumbles over its far-reaching ambitions, occasionally grates like an Intro..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Fantasticks

Although Austin Playhouse's revival of The Fantasticks is burdened with more than a few trips and stumbles, the show has evident charms, and here familiarity breeds not contempt but something warmer.

"...not contempt, but something warmer, where small trips and stumbles are less noticeable, if not completely forgiven. The audience-friendly..."

June 29, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Shadow Magic

"...1902 and the place is Beijing. Into this setting stumbles Raymond Wallace (Harris), a pioneering British entrepreneur who seeks..."

May 4, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Someone Like You

"...with another co-worker, serial womanizer Eddie (Jackman). After Jane stumbles across the aforementioned old cow/new cow theory, she thinks..."

March 30, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ratcatcher

Glasgow, mid-Seventies. A garbagemen's strike afflicts the city. While boys muck around in the diseased water, a drowning occurs, and 12-year-old James Gillespie's life changes forever. From the first moments of this bleak Scottish export, the misery of these people is deeply felt. Children come of age long before their time as families are broken by poverty, drink, death, and grime. Yet writer/director Ramsay produces poetry in all this devastation. Ratcatcher is an inner-city tragedy that plays its story simply, sorrowfully, and beautifully.

"...takes a bus to the outskirts of town and stumbles across the half-built El Dorado of everyone's dreams. Leaping..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Road to Redemption

"...bugging the big man for a raise. When Amanda stumbles across $250 large in Santoro's office, along with a..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dude, Where's My Car?

"...inspired television work as Felicity and Freaks and Geeks stumbles badly here, directing with a leaden, singularly uninspired hand..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Here on Earth

"...injury (dreaded knee-cap disease?). As the pivotal Kelley, Klein stumbles when called upon to offer more than a well-scrubbed..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

The Next Best Thing

"...is encouraged by Robert to begin dating again, she stumbles upon true love in the form of Law &..."

March 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Beauty

This Oscar winner is a bleak comedy of suburban mores and one man's sudden rejection of the arrangement.

"...film, but it's also his wife's, and here Mendes stumbles. Bening's character is not only a foil, but a..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Relax … It's Just Sex

"...Risky and inventive, Relax … It's Just Sex sometimes stumbles in its attempt to be all things to all..."

June 25, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

At First Sight

"...automobiles in Meet Joe Black and now Val Kilmer stumbles around blindly (but not, I fear, unattractively) in At..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Varsity Blues

"...its braying head every time Mox's pal Tweeder (Caan) stumbles drunkenly onscreen or when a pesky cheerleader pops up..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day at the Beach

"...Hamptons to do some serious soul-searching. Once there, Jimmy stumbles on the summer home of the ravioli kingpin, and,..."

June 26, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Office Killer

"...putting in overtime at the office one night, she stumbles headlong into that old standby of the terminally frustrated,..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Intimate Relations

"...with its hyperreal colorings and retro-camp sets, the film stumbles perilously close. It works because it never quite oversteps..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spawn

"...dream one media niche at a time, but he stumbles with this cinematic adaptation. It's all one big blur:..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eraser

"...up to his neck in bad guys when he stumbles upon a top-secret government conspiracy while protecting a beautiful..."

June 28, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Moll Flanders

"...Moll little permanent good and after another descent, she stumbles upon the love of a good man (Lynch). But..."

June 14, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Journey of August King

"...are hardly subtle though pathologically desperate. Later, when Annalees stumbles into August's camp, he decides to allow her safe..."

May 17, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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