• November 28, 2006
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Thriller

I watched The Silent Partner at the end of a day spent convalescing with a horrible headache and listening to Christopher Plummer read The Nutcracker on tape. By evening...

• November 26, 2006
• At Home, Drama

Maestro Martin (Sven Wollter) falls for his first violinist Barbara (Viveka Seldahl), they begin an affair, and dump their spouses and adult children and run off together to get...

• November 26, 2006
• At Home, Drama, Family

The day I write this, Akeelah and the Bee has an 84% postive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which basically makes me look like the biggest ass on the planet....

• November 26, 2006
• At Home, Documentary

You will not a find a more entertaining, heartfelt or unapologetically spirited documentary anywhere this year. You won’t. In fact, I dare you to try. Because, seriously, Summercamp! is fantastic. It’s...

• November 22, 2006
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller

Got it? Good, because then maybe you can watch the movie without the knotted brain and perplexed expression that overcame me about 30 minutes in and lasted through the...

• November 22, 2006
• At Home, Comedy, Family

Like a steaming cinematic turd, this hollow and horrible Christmas comedy arrives on screens just in time to disappoint families for the holidays. I’m not sure what happened to...

• November 18, 2006
• Action, At Home, Crime, Thriller

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Daniel Craig for doing something that no other actor playing superspy 007 has ever been able to do before: get me...

• November 1, 2006
• Action, Adventure, At Home

There are scenes in Gladiator that were directly lifted out of this Stanley Kubrick classic. The story of a slave who becomes a gladiator who becomes a general, and...

• November 1, 2006
• At Home, Drama

Rinko is a pretty yet reserved crisis hotline counselor. Of course, behind her somewhat dorky glasses and conservative dress is a siren waiting to explode. But it ain’t going...

• November 1, 2006
• At Home, Documentary

If anything, it offers a character portrait of one man who is not afraid to stand on his own pedestal and shake his liberal fist at conservative pundits and...

• October 27, 2006
• At Home, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

I first saw this film a few years ago at a film festival, enjoyed it, and was later appalled when I heard that Brad Pitt has optioned the rights...

• October 27, 2006
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama

With the success of Martin Scorcese’s The Departed, a remake of the original Infernal Affairs, there has been a renewed interest in the Hong Kong trilogy of films that...