• February 19, 2005
• At Home, Drama

While watching High Art, you can’t help but imagine this is what happened when Ally Sheedy’s Allison from The Breakfast Club grew up. Having disappeared for several years after being part of...

• January 29, 2005
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Drama

Maybe it’s a side effect of the collective dumbing-down of moviegoing audiences. Maybe it’s because this new comedy starring former bad-boy rapper Ice Cube is a prime example of...

• December 28, 2004
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

The film is a dreamy, surreal, CGI- and bluescreen-heavy sci-fi fantasy adventure film that plays out in an overly complex and often convoluted manner but remains strangely, and almost...

• December 27, 2004
• At Home, Drama, War

Though I am often swayed and a bit star-struck when a director I admire—in this case Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of Lost Children, Amélie)—is presenting his own film, as was...

• December 18, 2004
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Drama

Phoenix is something of an ambitious but overblown star vehicle for Dennis Quaid that’s filled to overflowing with gritted teeth (with or without the requisite gnashing), rippling muscles, scenery...

• December 3, 2004
• At Home, Drama, Romance

It’s clear pretty much from the outset that all involved felt they were making A Big Important Drama and that dreams of Oscar danced in their heads, but the...

• November 11, 2004
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Jude Law had six films on his resumé for 2004 (still to come were Closer, his cameo in The Aviator and his role as narrator for Lemony Snicket’s A...

• October 29, 2004
• At Home, Drama, Television

I’ve told myself that don’t watch soaps, but Queer as Folk is just another example of how I lie to myself more often than is healthy. Let’s just say...

• October 21, 2004
• Action, At Home, Drama

Films about transgendered people aren’t exactly filling up the multi-plexes. For that reason alone, Beautiful Boxer is pretty special. But to its credit, it is actually a pretty charming...

• October 1, 2004
• Action, At Home, Drama, Thriller

Why? Because about two minutes into Ladder 49, as a crew of firefighters are climbing stairs in a burning warehouse, Robert Patrick’s character says, “I’m gettin’ too old for...

• September 30, 2004
• At Home, Drama

Set in New York at the dawn of the AIDS crisis, Angels in America is the story of several very different, but closely intertwined, lives. At the heart of...

• September 29, 2004
• At Home, Drama, Romance

Picnic is a prime example of what happens when a bunch of ordinary people get together to celebrate the last day of summer under a full moon: everyone goes...