It’s the moment that we’ve all been waiting for! No, not when Vin Diesel and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson throw each other through a series of windows, as they sweat nails in a scuffle only missing a cage (but the moment when The Rock spits out broken glass is precious.) It’s rather when, after surviving an urban warfare ambush in a armor-plated Humvee, these two macho adversaries ... more >
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The Fast and the Furious
Testosterone and super-fuel
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster and Dwayne Johnson
Directed by Justin Lin
Win-Win
So it's not the film of the decade--so what?
Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Jeffrey Tambor and Bobby Cannavale
Directed by Tom McCarthy
After the affably quirky "Station Agent" and the quietly heartbreaking "The Visitor," writer-director (and, outside his own movies, actor) Thomas McCarthy takes a mildly disappointing step backward with "Win Win," a conventional family dramedy that can best be described as cuddly. Paul Giamatti, doing his quite familiar lovable curmudgeon shtick, plays a struggling small-town lawyer and ... more >
Scream 4
There's someone at the door
Lucy Hale, Shenae Grimes, Neve Campbell and Dane Farwell
Directed by Wes Craven
The saying goes, “There are no more original ideas”. Whether you agree or not, there are still films that push boundaries, tell original stories and, especially in the horror genre, scare the hell out of us. Wes Craven continues his Scream saga by stating the obvious – these films rehash the same story line and really aren’t that scary. Then he presents us with exactly that. "Scream 4" is ... more >
The Conspirator
A river runs through it
Robin Wright, Evan Rachel Wood, and James McAvoy
Directed by Robert Redford
Robert Redford is a good man. He is earnest and decent and his heart is in the right place. He is also an essential figure in cinema as he has single-handedly probably done more for cinema—with the Sundance Festival and Sundance channel and other film-related ventures—than anyone else in the history of this art. The late Henri Langlois, one of the founders of the Paris Cinémathèque and its ... more >
Henry’s Crime
Big-hearted guy gets wrongly accused of robbing a bank
James Caan, Vera Farmiga and Keanu Reeves
Directed by Malcolm Venville
Provoked by his cellmate’s (James Caan) dream lecture, Henry Smith (Keanu Reeves), a lackluster hero who has just served three years for a robbery he didn’t commit, discovers his dream: he's going to commit the very bank robbery for which he was wrongly convicted three years ago. With the help of his former cellmate, he devises a plan to break into the bank via the theater across the street, ... more >
The girl who kicked the hornets’ nest
Brains and guts but less glory
With Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace and Lena Endre
Directed by Daniel Alfredson
Daniel Alfredson, director of the second “Millennium” film (“The Girl Who Played With Fire”), has delivered again with the final installment of the Steig Larsson/Lisbeth Salander trilogy, “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest.” “Fire” ended with a cliffhanger: the never-say-die heroine—Salander—had just narrowly escaped another attempt on her life before being rescued by ... more >
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