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The Uninvited

Review in a Hurry: Better-than-average American remake of a mediocre Korean horror film, courtesy of two British filmmaking brothers named Guard, about a troubled teen and her potentially evil…

Taken

Review in a Hurry: Liam Neeson proves that he’s a total badass. As an ex-spy, he shoots, kicks and karate-chops his way through Paris to rescue his kidnapped daughter. But even he can’t…

New in Town

Review in a Hurry: A recessionary romantic comedy pits downsizing exec Renée Zellweger against union man Harry Connick Jr. in the wilds of Minnesota, but the script is sleeping on the…

Film Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The fantasy element in F. Scott Fitgerald’s 1922 short story, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” in which a man ages backwards, does not begin to suggest the urgent drama and romantic fatalism that director David Fincher and writers Eric Roth and Robin Swicord have so strikingly brought to the screen in the movie version. Fitzgerald’s story is little more than a plot gimmick. Yet the film transforms this gimmick into an epic tale that contemplates the wonders of life — of birth and death and, most of all, love. › Continue reading

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Movie Review: Milk

Some critics have already bestowed an Oscar on Sean Penn for his performance in Milk even before the nominations have been announced. › Continue reading

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