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Bridget Jones' Diary was an unexpected delight: a witty, enjoyable trifle that touched the heart while tickling the funny bone. Sadly, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason isn't anywhere close to being that good. This has the feel of a movie that e...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-11-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Beeban Kidron
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, ...
Filmmakers are clearly running low on subject matter for sports movies. Somehow, however, that doesn't stop the projects from being greenlighted, so, over the years, just about every sport or pseudo-sport has been used as the subject of one of the...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-08-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Peyton Reed
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Bradford, Eliza Dushku, ...
In this country, French movies are mostly known for being artistic and airy (or, to put it less kindly, serious and stodgy). And, while many French directors would probably agree that this is their aim (being artistic and airy, not serious and sto...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-01-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Christophe Gans
Cast: Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel, Emilie Dequenne, ...
Are a few good laughs worth wasting 100 minutes of time? For me, the answer is a resounding "No!" There are far more promising avenues to explore in the quest for laughter than the dead-end represented by Jim Carrey's latest endeavor, Bruce Almig...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-05-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cast: Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman
Bruno allows Sacha Baron Cohen to bring another member of his rogues' gallery of misfits to the big screen. This is a worthy successor to Borat and employs the similar tactic of exploiting the stupidity, ignorance, and prejudice of Americans as a ...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-07-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Frontal Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Larry Charles
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten
At the time of its October 1992 release, I wrote the following about the original Candyman (which was directed by Bernard Rose based on a story by Clive Barker): “Candyman is one of the most intelligent and chilling movies to grace the scree...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-08-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: Nia DaCosta
Cast: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Toyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, ...
After viewing Casino, you may never look at Las Vegas in quite the same way. While this film, adapted from Nicholas Pileggi's nonfiction book, Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas, doesn't offer much in the way of startling revelations, it presents...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-11-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations, Drugs)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, ...
There is an almost overpowering desire to write this review in the style of Dr. Seuss, but I will resist it - primarily because the end product is more Mike Myers and overblown production design than it is the clever text of one of the most beloved...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FAMILY
Director: Bo Welch
Cast: Mike Myers, Alec Baldwin, Kelly Preston, ...
Warning: This review contains spoilers throughout - at least insofar as a documentary can be spoiled. There's a common belief that about 75% of the "hot women" engaged in e-mail relationships, chatroom liaisons, and other associated on-line beha...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-09-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Cast: Nev Schulman
For 2019’s Big Holiday Musical Extravaganza, Hollywood has gone all the way back to 1981 to choose the source material. The concept of making a motion picture version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s immensely successful stage play, Cats, has both...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-12-20
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Musical
Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Francesca Hayward, Judi Dench, Ian McKellan, ...