NEW YORK (CNS) -- Intriguing but somewhat sordid, the psychiatry-themed drama "Side Effects" (Open Road) messes, quite successfully, with viewers' heads. Mature moviegoers may enjoy following the twisting trail of director Steven Soderbergh's clever puzzler.Yet [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Religious themes are central to director Ang Lee's visually artful screen version of Yann Martel's best-selling novel "Life of Pi" (Fox). Indeed, this exotic 3-D fable bills itself as a story [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Tyler Perry makes a considerable dramatic leap from portraying the unruly grandma Madea to personifying the iconic detective "Alex Cross" (Summit), hero of the best-selling series of crime novels by James [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "House at the End of the Street" (Relativity) has some wild, weird stuff going on in the sub-basement, but overall, it's a somewhat elegant psychological thriller overstuffed with spooky music and [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "The Master" (Weinstein) is a literate but sterile drama, a wearing cinematic experience further burdened by a degraded view of human sexuality and excessive explicitness in its portrayal.Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "What does Barack Obama believe?" asks right-leaning scholar Dinesh D'Souza, narrator of the engaging political documentary "2016: Obama's America" (Rocky Mountain). The film -- which D'Souza also co-directed and co-wrote with [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- An impoverished presentation of marriage is the principal, but not the only, problematic aspect of director and co-writer Nicholas Stoller's "The Five-Year Engagement" (Universal). His romantic comedy tracks San Francisco sous [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Talk about a fish out of water story! A sheik wants to bring his favorite Scottish pastime to the Arabian desert in "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" (CBS).This charming blend of [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- What Catholic viewers make of the gently satiric seriocomedy "We Have a Pope" ("Habemus Papam") (Sundance Selects) will largely depend on their reaction to the sight of teams of cardinals from [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The British market a brand of yeast spread called Marmite. Due to its overwhelmingly strong taste, its label carries the slogan "Love it or Hate it."As a result of the visceral [...]
& Incredibly CloseNEW YORK (CNS) -- Few events in recent history have exerted as deeply personal an impact on the lives of millions of Americans, and of people across the globe, as the attacks of [...]