"Rocky Balboa," the sixth (and hopefully last) installment in the underdog saga of the Italian Stallion, straddles the line between nostalgia and self-parody and frequently teeters toward the latter.
As directed by Bill Condon, who also wrote the adaptation of the multiple Tony Award-winning play, "Dreamgirls" tells a familiar story with conviction and pizazz.
There is never any doubt that Will Smith's Chris Gardner will muddle through in "The Pursuit of Happyness," that he'll get a job, make some money, find a home and achieve the elusive, intentionally misspelled state of the film's title.
Stick-in-the-mud eye doctor is at war with his neighbor over Christmas lights. Add a star if people falling down in the snow is all it takes to make you laugh.
The film is tense and engrossing. But it lacks exactly what the title advertises: the sense of inexplicable familiarity.
The last time the proprietors of the James Bond franchise rebooted the series, they did it with Pierce Brosnan.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu can be counted among the charmed circle of directors who have mastered the ability to step back and see the larger picture.
This seems like an odd moment to release a movie about South African apartheid. A full 15 years after the scourge ended, there are more pressing issues (AIDS and its orphans) facing the country.
It's the story of great heroism on a tiny island, of a photograph taken in 1/400 of a second that wreaked havoc with the lives of everyone in it and influenced the course of a war.
"Marie Antoinette" is not a perfect movie, but it's a very good movie about one of history's most iconic figures.
Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher may seem like an odd-sounding comedy team, but in some weird way, they click as voice-actors and cartoon buddies in "Open Season," the first feature from Sony Pictures Animation.
Admit it: Sometimes you get tired of art house movies starring actors who take "their craft" very, very seriously.
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