TCMFF continues to valiantly pursue the preservation of Hollywood film history.
The film’s father-son disconnect is a ham-fisted one, but Paul Newman and Melvyn Douglas make for excellent sparring partners.
The war between America and the Middle East is in full metaphoric force in Vadim Perelman’s ridiculous eviction melodrama.
When it comes to the cinematic translation of his pulpy adventures, a little dash of “unlikeliness” never hurts.
Now it makes sense why Fox didn’t screen The Order a few months back for critics: The film doesn’t make a lick of sense!
Bad Santa tries to be as vulgar and offensive as possible so that it might somehow justify the inevitability of its own happy ending.
Most impressive is its sympathetic portrayal of a shunned community in all its self-contained, lip-biting game-face pride.
Love Me Tonight still stands as a definitive musical.
Big Fish is a cosmic gallery of gothic inventions and magical wish fulfillments.
If The Haunted Mansion is remotely tolerable, that may have to do with Elf screenwriter David Berenbaum.
Shattered Glass speaks simultaneously to our humanity and sense of moral outrage.
The film’s only sense of wonder is the recognition of Vermeer’s paintings coming to life.
Ron Howard’s The Missing announces its (corporate) intentions right from the start.
Penélope Cruz not only chews the scenery, she pisses on it and begins chewing on it again.
The Statement never delves too deeply into the pitch-black heart of its premise.
Cat in the Hat isn’t so much an adaptation of a Dr. Seuss book than it is an improv special for Mike Myers.
The Boys Life series has always been a little about wish fulfillment.
Calendar Girls is perhaps the most blatant attempt yet to exploit the popularity of The Full Monty.
It’s the attempt to half-heartily harken back to the original cartoons that’s ultimately so damning.
It’d be easy to write off Paramount’s Tupac: Resurrection as a cheap publicity stunt.
This ambitious seafaring epic almost holds its rickety hull together thanks to Russell Crowe’s intense, broad-shouldered star power.