Even though the secret of the skull is itself a bit of a letdown, this film has plenty of appealing surprises to compensate for its failings. If Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is not a great film, it's still more than good enough.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian succeeds not by duplicating The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but by building on it, taking what could have just been “Battle for the Planet of Narnia” and instilling it with spiritual lessons about faith, courage and service.
The Visitor asks us to examine our own humanity, particularly as it relates to immigrants in post 9/11 America and to search our souls to find where compassion ends and a hard heart begins.
Leatherheads provides a good natured, often hilarious look at a bygone era when pro football was more brawl than organized sport. With appealing performances by Clooney, Zellweger and Krasinski—and don’t forget those silly helmets!—Leatherheads scores.
Bonneville asks us to consider how we measure a life. The film shows that just like the changing leaves, the autumnal years of life can still yield deeper, richer colors ahead.
Horton Hears a Who! is a great piece of entertainment—as relevant today as it was 50 years ago—filled with laughs and lessons suitable for the whole family.
As a modern-day parable, Penelope serves as a clever and good natured reminder that it’s what’s inside a person that counts and that even a girl with the face of a pig can have the heart of a princess.
Although The Spiderwick Chronicles isn’t the next Narnia, the movie succeeds as a delightful 98 minutes of family-friendly fantasy and is filled with stunning visuals, ample excitement and a surprising world where more exists than first meets the eye.
Juno is a rib tickling comedy about a serious subject—teen pregnancy—that manages to be both youthfully sweet and worldly wise without heavy moralizing.
Charlie Wilson’s War is a whip-smart piece of comic entertainment that explores the convoluted world of international politics and the many foibles of its all-too-human players.
Inspired by a true story, The Great Debaters plunges us into the Jim Crow South of the mid-1930s—a time when blacks endured the daily indignity of discrimination, and racial violence always simmered just beneath the surface. The film tells the story of the debate team at Wiley College, a small Black college in Marshall Texas.
August Rush is an exhilarating symphony of emotions about faith, family and the ties that bind us—the unseen, often mysterious forces that connect us and draw us together.
Michael Clayton is the kind of thinking person's drama-like Three Days of the Condor or The Parallax View-that used to be a Hollywood staple, but is now as hard to find as a film in black and white.
Any typical 14-year-old is a seeker-seeking acceptance, love and a sense of self. Will Stanton, the young hero of the fantasy thriller The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, is THE Seeker, tasked with searching for the ancient secret signs that will empower the protectors of the Light and vanquish the forces of the Dark.
We all have bit of the foolish dreamer in us, but in the delightful and knowing new comedy, King of California, Michael Douglas, plays a man who doesn’t know where his dreams of glory end and reality begins.
Resurrecting the Champ is full of surprises, taking us places and revealing things we didn't expect. The film asks us to decide who has resurrected whom and deeply probes the reasons why we lie and if the truth really can set you free.
The Visitor asks us to examine our own humanity, particularly as it relates to immigrants in post 9/11 America and to search our souls to find where compassion ends and a hard heart begins.
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