Michael Moore's blistering critique of the Bush administration in toto and its War on Terror in particular (just in time for the 2004 presidential campaign, too) is at bottom a pair of devil's horns drawn on the head of Dubya. But if Moore were only making fun, he'd only be …
A record, plus split-screen reminiscences, of a chartered train trip across Canada in the summer of 1970, carrying Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, the Band, Buddy Guy, Ian and Sylvia, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and others, from a concert date in Toronto to successive dates in Winnipeg and Calgary. The …
The feature debut of writer-director Omar Naïm imagines a future world in which one out of every twenty citizens has been fitted before birth with a Zoe Implant, a sort of lifelong built-in camcorder, and in which a highly trained "cutter" will be commissioned after death to edit the footage …
Academic exercise, adapted from an unrenowned theater piece entitled The Man Who Was Peter Pan, that purports to show how the playwright J.M. Barrie sculpted the glazed statue of Peter Pan from the soft clay of his real-life relationship with a widow and her four boys. (Albeit a platonic relationship, …
Second apolitical comedy in the same election year to deal with the wing-spreading of the President's only child, this girl heading west to college, in the footsteps of Chelsea Clinton, while her father campaigns for a second term. The film had the bad fortune to be beaten into the marketplace …
Stripped-down remake of Robert Aldrich's near-perfect survival adventure of 1966, about a new plane constructed from the wreckage of an old one in the middle of the desert. Among the things stripped away are all vestiges of character and thematic interest: no more humanism versus pragmatism; no more lingering hostilities …
No, not the Ben Affleck Sandra Bullock mutual career low point. This is about forces even more devastating. If you can believe that. Volcanoes and earthquakes and stuff.
Science-fiction thriller that takes a good long while to declare itself as such. A grieving mother, Julianne Moore, acting as if this were no less serious a business than The Hours or Far from Heaven, continues to make daily visits to her nine-year-old son's bedroom -- his dresser, his Mets …
A typical Midwestern 18-year-old freshman at a large state university eager to delve the college party life, instead he discovers that school is not the beer-driven, sexual fantasy of his imagination. Determined to do anything to obtain the girl of his dreams (a gorgeous but reluctant sorority girl), he decides …
Pedantic pigskin story, based on the well-regarded nonfiction book by H.G. Bissinger, set in football-mad West Texas: the pressures, the twisted passions, the bitter pills, the life lessons. Billy Bob Thornton, who appears to take more than just the overbite from G.D. Spradlin in North Dallas Forty, is the beleaguered …
Small-screen actor Zach Braff, who also wrote and directed, as the most impassive sadsack this side of Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate: impassive amid the surrounding panic of a plane-crash dream scene; impassive in the sanatorium ambience of his bedroom, lying motionless on his back and listening to the news …
In the year 2032, the line between humans and machines has been blurred almost beyond distinction. A string of murders perpetrated by a prototype android model has drawn the attention of Public Security Section 9, a unit specializing in counter cyber-terrorism. With none of the victims' families pressing charges, suspicions …
In the year 2032, the line between humans and machines has been blurred almost beyond distinction. A string of murders perpetrated by a prototype android model has drawn the attention of Public Security Section 9, a unit specializing in counter cyber-terrorism. With none of the victims' families pressing charges, suspicions …
The name's the same as the 1999 documentary on porn queen Stacy Valentine. Which is fitting because the girl who moves in next door to the teenage hero (Emile Hirsch), who plans someday to be President but who acts as if he wants to be Leo DiCaprio, is in truth …
A genius geneticist (Robert De Niro) approaches a bereaved couple (Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) with a limited-time-only offer to clone their deceased son: "This is extremely against the law." All goes well until the duplicate's eighth birthday, when he passes the age of his predecessor and becomes an overnight problem …