• July 12, 2016
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Sandra Bullock plays “Calamity” Jane Bodine, a political consultant apparently so ruthless that she can make even the most shady, incompetent politician into a winner. But Jane has been...

• February 24, 2014
• At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller

Gravity is basically a 90-minute thrill-ride. The audience lives vicariously through astronaut Sandra Bullock’s point of view as, almost immediately, a space walk goes very very wrong. The Space...

• June 28, 2013
• At Home, Comedy

There is nothing original about the cop buddy movie The Heat. There is an uptight cop and a crazy cop, and there is a bad guy that no one...

• November 9, 2012
• At Home, Drama

This is one of those stories that would be cloying and eyeball-rolling if it were not true (or at least we’re told it is true). A hulking practically mute...

• December 29, 2009
• At Home, Comedy

Bullock is Mary Horowitz, a crossword-puzzle writer for a Sacramento newspaper, who’s meant to be a quirky, socially inept intellectual but who, instead, comes off as an annoying and...

• February 8, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

I know I said I would watch Viggo Mortensen muck out stalls in my Hidalgo review, but I never quite factored Sandra Bullock into the deal. It’s like being...

• June 28, 2006
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

The Lake House is the kind of romance that sparks the imagination and leaves you thinking, “why can’t that happen to me?” or, more specifically, “why can’t I have...