Man On Fire

April 23, 2004  | Revenge is sour and Denzel Washington is dour in Man on Fire, a grimly efficient but distractingly pretentious revenge thriller about a burnt-out CIA operative who gets…

Maid In Manhattan

December 12, 2002 | Adjectives such as “nice” and “pleasant” may seem like left-handed compliments – or, worse, ironic putdowns – in an era when too of what passes for film…

Magnolia

January 7, 2000 | You barely have a chance to get comfortable in your seat before the wild ride begins in Magnolia. With equal measures of deadpan cool and breathless…

Love Actually

November 7, 2003 |  Richard Curtis, the screenwriter of Notting Hill and Four Weddings and Funeral, graduates to multi-hyphenate status with Love Actually , and it's altogether appropriate to grant…

The Lonely Lady

September 30, 1983 | In The Lonely Lady, a sleazy soap opera based on a Harold Robbins potboiler, Pia Zadora, the world’s oldest living nymphet, plays JeriLee Randall, a would-be writer…

Left Behind

February 4, 2001 |  If you hear the word “rapture” and don’t immediately think of a golden oldie by Blondie, you may be part of the target audience for Left…

Laws of Attraction

April 30, 2004 |  She's a risk-averse, by-the-book workaholic who over-prepares for every eventuality with a fanatical attentiveness to detail. He's an easygoing, imperturbable charmer who appears to be improvising…