‘He’s Just Not That Into You’ doesn’t work
According to Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's dinky 2004 relationship-advice book "He's Just Not That Into You," if a guy you're interested in won't call you, won't sleep with you,...
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‘Frozen River’: Right calls in story full of wrong turns
At this point, "escalating-bad-decision story" is practically its own cinematic genre, stretching from the noir films of the 1940s through to modern movies such as "Very Bad Things" or "Before...
The Master’s style, without the Master’s passion
For the first few minutes, it's easy to see "Married Life" as an early Alfred Hitchcock film. The year is 1949, and Pierce Brosnan's elegant, mannered narration sets the scene...
‘The Longshots’: Cliched script blocks inspiration
Musicians in need of a metronome could pick up a steady beat from " The Longshots," a thoroughly conventional sports-underdog movie based on the real-life first female quarterback in the...
4 filmmakers focus on sex and religion
'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' **** All Roman Polanski has to do is show up on-screen, as he did playing a French policeman in "Rush Hour 3," and he brings...
Excess of symbolism, gore dull film’s bite
'TEETH' ** 1/2 Every frame of Mitchell Lichtenstein's horror debut "Teeth" is crammed with symbolism. A pair of cooling towers looming over a town spit out columns of steam, in...
Filmmakers open new vistas on animal life in the Arctic
When husband-and-wife team Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson first went to the Arctic to film wildlife, they were told that polar bears and walruses did not interact. They were told...