"GoodFellas" is so good, even triumphant, in so many ways it's just about impossible to know where to begin. The movie is so rich and detailed that half an hour into it, I could hardly wait to see it again,...
May 2009 Archives
"The Pink Panther" was a phenomenon, a big-scale comedy including slapstick and farce, shot on gorgeous locations with a gorgeous cast. It was an enormous success, establishing Peter Sellers as a leading man and completing the transformation of Blake Edwards...
I was watching "Max Payne" when my wife entered. "Is this based on a video game?" she asked. It's that obvious, that dismaying: someone who didn't even know there was a video game called "Max Payne" immediately recognized the movie...
This is the first movie starring "The Office"'s Rainn Wilson, but clearly he has more to learn about the difference between a sitcom performance and a theatrical movie performance. Sometimes he gets the level right, but all too often he...
Some have described this warm, ingratiating movie as a "chick flick," probably because the main characters are all female and because it doesn't have any action, although it opens with a shooting. But it's a serious, sincere movie; most viewers...
