Queen, The

An exciting and visually impressive cinematic excursion into the ballet which ultimately fails to break free of the shackles of irony.

A movie about abortion that makes Juno or Knocked Up look as trivial and sentimental as most other Hollywood products

Maybe Steven Spielberg has “found his dark side” but, typically, he doesn’t really know what to do with it.

Dangerous Beauty by Marshall Herskovitz bills itself as a “true story” of Venice in the 1580s, but if there is one thing this film is not, it is not true to Venice in the 1580s. The story of a courtesan and a poetess called Veronica Franco (Catherine McCormack) is made into an object lesson in…

I Love You, Don’t Touch Me is a charming little film by Julie Davis that has intelligence, wit, humor, good acting, good writing, good music and almost all things going for it —apart from being facile and unconvincing in its main point. This is that, as the gorgeous heroine, Katie (Marla Schaffel)—who is of course…

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