“Tinker” radically – superlatively – condenses John Le Carre’s classic novel.
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2011: A look back
Not the best year in the history of cinema – pretty mediocre, in fact – but there were some winners.
Something delightfully wicked this way comes – ‘Young Adult’
Think of it as “Juno’s” wicked stepsister.
CHARGE!
Spielberg battles Spielberg in an epic box-office throwdown, a win-win for John and Jane Moviegoer.
Uneven ‘Zoo’ falls short of its feel-good aspirations
“We Bought a Zoo” is a holiday movie worth rooting for. Directed by the cinema’s last great romantic, Cameron Crowe, it features cute tykes, young romance and a grownup grieving for a lost love, adorable animals and the comically crotchety Thomas Haden Church. The director of “Jerry Maguire” – whose last feature film, “Elizabethtown,” was […]
Williams’ Monroe shows why gentlemen liked this blonde
Williams ‘gets’ Monroe – the sex appeal, the vulnerability, the sense of fear of discovery behind all that out-there sexual bravado.
Spielberg captures horrors of WWI with ‘War Horse’
Men on opposing sides of war find their shared humanity in their love of animals in “War Horse,” Steven Spielberg’s sentimental epic about a country thoroughbred who travels from the fields of Devonshire to the trenches of the Somme in World War I. The film – based on a play that was based on Michael […]
Super sleuths
Holmes and Watson are on top of their game in ‘Shadows,’ a funny, over-the-top thrill ride.
A Hollywood who’s who
A whole lot of big names and familiar faces show up in ‘New Year’s Eve,’ an uneven-but-cute-enough romcom from director Garry Marshall.