Dolphin Tale
The grading, in this case, is on a generous curve because this inspired by a true story family drama from …
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I Don’t Know How She Does It
Sarah Jessica Parker goes from Sex and the City to career mommy under siege (while breaking the sacred wall to …
Straw Dogs
Rod Lurie, back before he became a writer-director of thoughtful adult films like The Contender, The Last Castle and Nothing …
Warrior
Sometimes the story is the story — that’s all there is, and the producers stick with it. Gavin O’Connor (Miracle, …
Review: ‘Drive’
Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn. Audiences should get used to seeing these names together, because this could be the …
Review: ‘Higher Ground’
Religion, especially the fervent born-again set, bedevils filmmakers. The showmanship lurking behind the charismatic approach seems to be something that …
Apollo 18
Exploiting the found footage trend (triggered by The Blair Witch Project on through the recent Paranormal Activity series) that has …
Bride Flight
Ada (Karina Smulders), Esther (Anna Drijver) and Marjorie (Elise Schaap), three women of very different backgrounds, find themselves on the …
Shark Night 3D
Instead of allowing death or fate or some other philosophically cosmic notion to cut a swath through a group of …
Columbiana
Zoe Saldana, coming off a loose and suitably gritty B-movie turn in The Losers, stars here as a highly efficient …
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