The Kite Runner
Catholic News Service
12/12/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Fans of Khaled Hosseini's international bestseller "The Kite Runner" will not be disappointed and should find the film version (Paramount Vantage) a richly satisfying adaptation, despite screenwriter David Benioff's necessary abridgement of some events. The film, quite superb in ...
The Perfect Holiday
Catholic News Service
12/12/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The course of second love runs far from smoothly in "The Perfect Holiday" (Yari), an amiable romantic comedy. Nancy (Gabrielle Union), a divorced mother of three, is anxious to take another try at romance. To jump-start the process, her young daughter Emily (Khail Bryant) tells a ...
Juno
Catholic News Service
12/12/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) - "Juno" (Fox Searchlight) is a smart, funny and ultimately moving comedy-drama with a strong pro-life message. The titular Juno is an unwed teen (a marvelous performance by young Ellen Page) who finds herself pregnant after, more or less, seducing her shy classmate Paulie (Michael ...
Atonement
Catholic News Service
12/10/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Atonement" (Focus) is the moving World War II romance of Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley), a well-to-do young Englishwoman, and Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), the working-class young man she has loved since childhood. When the story begins, Robbie, the son of the Tallis' ...
Awake
Catholic News Service
12/3/2007, by John P. McCarthy
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Awake" (MGM/Weinstein) is a softheaded, somewhat sordid thriller combining medical malpractice, romance and over-possessive mothers. Those facing the prospect of surgery in the near future should steer clear, which isn't to say that what transpires is very plausible. But no ...
The Savages
Catholic News Service
11/27/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) - "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight) is a strongly acted, perceptive study of middle-aged brother and sister Jon and Wendy Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney), called upon to care for their emotionally and geographically distant father, Lenny (Philip Bosco), who has had a ...
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Catholic News Service
11/27/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) - "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax) is the inspiring if sobering true story of France's Elle magazine editor-in-chief Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) whose massive stroke at the age of 43 left him paralyzed from head to toe. When he first regains consciousness in ...
August Rush
Catholic News Service
11/27/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- A warm-hearted tribute to the power of music, "August Rush" (Warner Bros.) is a fable that blithely eschews all connection to reality in favor of a world where anything is possible. When Irish singer-songwriter Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) encountered classical cellist ...
This Christmas
Catholic News Service
11/27/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- A well-heeled African-American clan gathers for their first holiday season together in four years in "This Christmas" (Screen Gems). The result is a spirited but somewhat pat family drama in which relationships are renewed and secrets revealed. Family matriarch Shirley "Ma'Dere" ...
Hitman
Catholic News Service
11/27/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- It's more than a digit's distance from Agent 007 to Agent 47, the protagonist of "Hitman" (20th Century Fox). The former was merely licensed to kill; the latter has been trained to do it since childhood. In this slick but exceedingly violent action film, the numbered-but-not-named ...
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