Calculatingly released in theaters on 06/06/06 (i.e., 666, get it?), but not, heaven forbid, a fourth sequel, an Omen 5, but rather a straight remake of the 1976 original, about the advent of the anti-Christ (presaged now by the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, 9/11, the Indian Ocean tsunamis of 2004) …
Amiable, empty-headed, tender-hearted geriaction flick about a retired agent (Bruce Willis) whose lady love (Mary-Louise Parker) and best buddy (John Malkovich) think he needs to get back in the game. (She thinks he's a little bit boring as a civilian; he thinks their lives are in danger. They're both right.) …
Alejandro Amenábar (The Others) writes, co-produces, and directs a fun cast (Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson, David Thewlis) in a thriller that combines psychology (regression therapy) and religion (ritual Satanic abuse). Hoo!
The pervading spirit is not a ghost of William Congreve or of John Dryden, but apparently someone closer to Lloyd C. Douglas or A.J. Cronin, those raconteurs of medico-religiose uplift: Magnificent Obsession, Green Light, The Citadel. The story is set, true enough, in England in the early days of the …
Jean-Jacques Annaud's true-life odyssey of a self-centered mountaineering glory-seeker and uncommitted Nazi Party member who becomes a better person in the aura of the juvenile Dalai Lama. Mostly a big drag unless your pulse uncontrollably quickens at the sight of the bleached-blond Brad Pitt or the snowy Himalayas. The sound …
Total mistake. Conventional literary "biopic" on the anti-conventional French poets (and homosexual lovers) Rimbaud and Verlaine, the both of them reduced to boorish bohemians who never have to put up any actual work in partial justification. The cast produces an international cacophony: the American Leonardo DiCaprio as the adolescent Rimbaud …