On Moonlight Bay (1951)

Like so much of the rest of Neil LaBute’s output, this is a good movie in a bad — I think a very bad — cause.

The absurdly pretentious and over-ambitious winner of this year’s Cannes Festival is at least pretty to look at

Liar Liar is another high-concept movie, this one directed by Tom Shadyac, who also directed Jim Carrey’s breakthrough film, Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. Here Carrey appears as Fletcher Reede, a shyster lawyer whose five year old son, Max (Justin Cooper) makes a birthday wish that, just for one day, his father cannot tell a lie….

True, it’s not as bad as American Beauty, Sam Mendes’s earlier film, but it’s still quite bad enough.

The most important question to be asked about Stepmom, directed by Chris Columbus, is why on earth Ed Harris was cast as the male lead, Lawyer Luke, who was married to the gorgeous Susan Sarandon and is now about to marry the gorgeous Julia Roberts. It makes no sense. There is no chemistry at all…