Double Indemnity

In spite of a tremendous performance by Noah Taylor as the young Hitler, Menno Mayjes’s film is fatally mired in the present.

An amusing but anodyne satire of the “spin” industry that lacks some of the bite it might have had if it had been less in sympathy with the health nuts it also satirizes

The Replacement Killers, directed by Antoine Fuqua, stars Chow Yun-Fat as John Lee, a kind of Chinese version of the decent American everyman as noir hero of the 1940s — a world-weary Humphrey Bogart, say, who is capable of all criminality but for some reason draws the line at killing a kid, in this case…

If Freaky Friday is the Disney version of what it’s like to be an adolescent girl with a single mother, this is more like the reality.

A highly watchable but somewhat dubious lesson in how not to be a victim — or at least not a victim of fate

How on earth did Ron Howard hope to succeed where Peter Weir failed? Hubris, I suppose. Ron Howard’s done a guest shot on “The Simpsons” (along with those other giants of the silver screen, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger) and Peter Weir hasn’t. But for those of us not giddy with success, however, the idea…