Frozen

Sisterhood forever! At least until some young hottie comes along with an irresistible offer to roger the schoolmarm. And even then. . . Andie MacDowell eats her cake and has it too.

A feel-bad movie about one of the world’s more intractable crisis points which unwittingly illustrates the inadequacies of the progressive approach to such problems

As a rule, I think I have as good an eye for “gaggingly mawkish supernatural kitsch” as the next critic, but I found I couldn’t agree with this description by Stephen Holden, the critic for the New York Times, of The Sixth Sense. For some reason more or less obscure to me — perhaps it…

This not-very-funny comedy does at least hold some interest as a parable of black upward mobility.

One must naturally applaud the highly moral purpose of a movie like Boiler Room, written and directed by Ben Younger. Out of appreciation for it, one can almost ignore the rap music and the suffocating hipness and, with them, the suspicion that like its model, Wall Street, the film really glorifies what it ostensibly disapproves…

As I watched Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, I kept asking myself why this movie was being made. The decrepitude of its subject matter is obvious from its very first scenes when we see the eponymous Mr Ripley (Matt Damon) accompanying a lieder singer at a private recital for…