MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED – Worth A Ticket – A Circus Indeed There’s a certain luxury in being DreamWorks Animation. Pixar gets the awards and the acclaim, but it’s also held ...
MONTE CARLO: Watch It At Home – The Usual Tourist Stops Beware the credit “Screen Story by.” It means that whatever the original source material for a movie may have been, it’s essentia...
Pending the arrival of this week’s finale, Mike Newell’s 2005 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE may be, on balance, the most satisfying of the series. It combines first-rate moviemaking with one of J.K. R...
HUGO: Worth A Ticket – If Only For the Visual Splendors Paramount doesn’t have much choice but to market Martin Scorsese’s HUGO as a family movie: it’s got a PG rating, a young boy and ...
THE BIG YEAR: Watch It At Home – Very Small Pleasures THE BIG YEAR is an amiable, good-natured comedy that’s so insubstantial it seems to fly out of your memory even as you’re watching it. If...
SAVAGES: Watch It At Home – Great Book, OK Movie Don Winslow’s novel SAVAGES is one of the extraordinary reads of recent years. The plot may sound unremarkable–a mini-war is waged between a couple o...
THAT’S MY BOY: Not Even For Free – Low-Rent Even For Sandler THAT’S MY BOY is 116 minutes long. I mention that up front because, for those of us who consider time spent watching Adam Sandler movies ...
WAR HORSE: Watch It At Home – Spielberg’s Beautiful Muzak Earlier this year, audiences were presented with Super 8, J. J. Abrams’s pastiche of Steven Spielberg’s classic sci-fi adventures f...
BELFAST (Focus/Universal – Nov. 12): Kenneth Branagh’s semiautobiographical film walks a path laid by many great works by master filmmakers, including Fellini’s Amarcord, John Boorman’s Hope and...
SHERLOCK HOLMES: GAME OF SHADOWS: Watch It At Home – Far Too Elementary We have to come to terms with the fact that an entire generation may recognize the name Sherlock Holmes not as the template ...