A breathtaking, beautiful, highly stylized animated film, Christian Volckman´s Renaissance represents the height of style over substance.
Sherrybaby took honors for best film and best actress at the 2006 Karlovy Vary Film Fest
Copying Beethoven features a vigorous, over-the-top performance by Ed Harris and a virtuoso Ninth Symphony sequence
Spider-Man 3 is charged entertainment that perfectly and authentically replicates its comic-book origins
It takes a biblical plague for Hilary Swank to re-discover her faith in The Reaping, but it´s going to take a lot more for audiences to enjoy this film
Shooter is a completely senseless but highly entertaining thriller
Perfect Stranger is strictly late-night cable fare that should have stayed that way
This return of the Turtles to the big screen provides some wonderful CG animation and grand design
Alpha Dog is two-thirds of a fascinating film, a vivid and compelling look at suburban youth culture
Sunshine is an intelligent, philosophical, and rewarding sci-fi feature
Norbit is an unpleasant, offensive, and entirely unfunny ‘comedy´ starring Murphy in three roles
The Hills Have Eyes II is an uninspired, unnecessary sequel to 2006´s uninspired, unnecessary remake
Painfully dull teenage werewolf flick Blood and Chocolate features precious little blood or chocolate.
Director Andrea Arnold keeps the audience in the dark for much of the interminable Red Road
Off-putting at first, Meet the Robinsons’ retro-50´s design (with a dash of Tim Burton) eventually becomes infectious
Notes on a Scandal is a wildly overpraised Fatal Attraction derivation from director Richard Eyre
An inventive (Charlie) Kaufman-esque script is brought to life in director Marc Forster’s Stranger Than Fiction
Flags of our Fathers is a somber, heartfelt, beautifully rendered meditation on heroism and the politics of war
This Black Christmas is a completely unpleasant remake and an insult to Bob Clark´s 1974 version
Sketches of Frank Gehry is an earnest but conventional documentary on the famed architect
300 is a near-masterpiece that ignores all reasonable aspects of storytelling, such as, say, plot or character development
Alleged comedy Employee of the Month is almost a complete disaster, saved only by occasionally flavorful supporting cast.
Feast, a glorious trash throwback to 80´s splatter flicks, aims low and wildly succeeds
You should know what you´re getting into from the cast and genre of Music and Lyrics, and film follows expectations to the hilt.