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The story centers on Bucharest university students Alex (Ioana Barbu) and Christina (Zooey Deschanel look-alike Maria Popistasu), who are over the moon about each other. Clandestine girlfriends, who mask their romance as friendship before the prying eyes of others, Alex and “Kiki” are in love. But keeping their relationship...
It is with much sadness and regret that I bestow a mere four slices on this latest installment of the X-Men franchise. After the stellar X2: X-Men United, I was so looking forward to another round of action and misadventure from my favorite mutants but, instead, wound up sitting...
Lying dead on the screen and lacking momentum almost entirely, the movie version of The Da Vinci Code takes what should be a suspense-filled treasure hunt and turns it into a mind-numbingly boring history lesson, where characters spend more time reciting informative (if tedious) soliloquies about Jesus, Christianity, secrets,...
That’s good. I like that kind of thing. But it’s also one of those movies that falls apart in its final 30 minutes or so, dragging out its action and not ending at the clear-as-a-bell moment that would have been perfect. Too bad. I don’t much like that kind...
Given the pedigree of its filmmaking team (About a Boy, In Good Company), I had high hopes for this satire of American pop culture and, more specifically, American Idol. But what I watched was a sad mish-mash of tone and execution, where the film veered back and forth between...
I’d be willing to bet the dust doesn’t have any answers for me, but that’s okay because – just like dust! – the memory of this tedious film will be swept from my mind quickly and without incident. Robert Towne directs this big-screen adaptation of John Fante’s novel, which...
There are a number of things I didn’t understand in director Spike Lee’s latest film, and I subsequently wound up leaving the theater a little confused. I’m pretty sure it’s not because I missed some crucial pieces of information (I was paying attention) or because the plot was so...
For those of you who may have missed my ebullient-bordering-on-manic praise for this romantic comedy in my TIFF diary, allow me to say once again that I wholeheartedly believe it will easily wind up being my favorite film of 2005. It’s so sweet, so funny, so romantic and so...
Huh. Oh well. More than anything else, 2006 seems to have been the Year of Mediocrity, where the vast majority of films wound up in the “meh” pile, and only a few truly amazing or abysmally bad flicks stood out for their respective awesomeness or sheer crapitude. Keeping that...
Okay, maybe not really nine thousand, but it sure felt like there were way more of them than there were the first time we encountered the Baker clan. Sadly, revisiting them for their latest misadventure not only feels like we’re watching them in inferior versions of other movies (The...
The trailers and commercials for the film have hit on all the key points: it’s big, it’s action-packed and it features a scantily clad Naomi Watts doing lots of running and screaming. And, to its credit, King Kong will meet the expectations of all those who have been hanging...
See, I think Amanda Peet rawks, so even though her latest big-screen outing isn’t really exceptionally spectacular, it does get bonus points for: 1. Having her in it. 2. Allowing her to play a character who’s unabashedly flawed, insecure and wildly lovable. and 3. Making the most of her...
