Julie Taymor is clearly trying hard to gussy up a screenplay that plays more like The Wonder Years without the cultural insight.
King of California sees something, albeit not as much as one might hope.
Running with Scissors now threatens to cause havoc in almost every corner of the globe.
A pity party that makes flip and calculated light of everything from sexual discovery, religion, insanity, recovery, you name it.
The finale reveals the detrimentally hamfisted influence of the Sundance Institute on an otherwise entrancingly mournful film.
Ambition is both Pretty Persuasion’s finest and weakest attribute.
The film endeavors to airmail the middle-aged suburban angst made fashionable by American Beauty safely back to cynicism-free sitcom territory.
Ron Howard’s The Missing announces its (corporate) intentions right from the start.
Like the club-kid docu-drama Kids before it, Thirteen is a very real depiction of what life is like for a small faction of America’s teenagers.