I suspect that IDENTITY wants to be more profound than it ultimately is. This adds a note of prissy pretension to an otherwise effective little thriller. Set on a dark and stormy night at a rundown motel situated on an Indian graveyard, screenwriter Michael Cooney toys with horror conventions but doesnt succumb to the clichés.… Read More »
REAL CANCUN, THE
THE REAL WORLD, for those of you not tuned into all things MTV, is a reality show on that network that pits, er, puts several college-aged kids together in luxurious digs for four months and lets us watch what happens. THE REAL CANCUN is the same concept and done by the same producers, Mary Ellis-Bunam… Read More »
IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY
IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY is not just a bad movie, it’s a bad movie that not only muffs its attempt to rip off a good movie, ROCKET GIBRALTER, it also has the effrontery to try to make us feel guilty about hating it. I can understand why the Douglases, Kirk, son Michael, and grandson… Read More »
THE SHAPE OF THINGS
Neil LaBute starts his latest film, THE SHAPE OF THINGS, off with a sly dig at what the story is going to be about. His stars are not given character names in the credits, they’re listed as “actress” or “actor” in much the same way that credits traditionally list “director” or “writer”, both of which… Read More »
MR. DEATH
There is a nagging question at the heart of Errol Morris’ latest meditation on the foibles of humanity, MR DEATH. Do we use facts to make up our minds about things, or do we find facts that confirm what he already want to believe? And, more importantly, why do we choose to believe what we… Read More »
LEVITY
Ed Solomon wrote the scripts for MEN IN BLACK and BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE. He’s not the guy from whom you’d expect a serious, thoughtful, even intriguing script that wrestles with the theological and philosophical questions of redemption. And yet, with LEVITY, his directorial debut, that’s just what he’s done. The protagonist is Manual, with… Read More »
CITY OF GHOSTS
I can’t quite shake the feeling that lurking somewhere in Matt Dillon’s CITY OF GHOSTS, there?s a pretty good movie trying to get out. It’s not unlike a block of raw marble that harbors within it perhaps not La Pieta, but something that wouldn’t look out of place in the outer galleries of a mid-sized… Read More »
DADDY DAY CARE
At one point in DADDY DAY CARE, a character competing for the pre-school business in a prosperous suburb says that she cant compete with fun. That could well be the theme of this movie. After a promising opening the flick quickly devolves into a formula piece whose only surprise is that Eddie Murphy, giving his… Read More »
CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES
A woman rises naked from the bed of her lover, dresses, walks outside and up the stairs of her duplex to spend the rest of the night, platonically, with another man. With that opening sequence of CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES, Eric Byler engages his audience from the first frame of film in a way that is irresistible.… Read More »
DOWN WITH LOVE
DOWN WITH LOVE is a sweet little muddle buoyed along by its effervescence and its unflagging cheer. Its hard to dislike, no matter how much you want to, no matter how much you should. Like last years FAR FROM HEAVEN, though not in the same league, this is an homage to an earlier style of… Read More »
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