Wristcutters: A Love Story
Catholic News Service
10/18/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Wristcutters: A Love Story" (Autonomous) is a gritty, downbeat drama set in a purgatorial afterlife reserved for suicides. Despite an interesting premise -- and a welcome moral stance -- the film soon becomes random and visually uncomfortable. Ultimately, it becomes stupefying. ...
Gone Baby Gone
Catholic News Service
10/18/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Casey Affleck follows up his mesmerizing turn as Jesse James' once-idolatrous killer with an equally superlative, and quite different, performance in brother Ben Affleck's highly auspicious directorial debut, "Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax). Adapted from the novel by Dennis Lehane of ...
The Ten Commandments
Catholic News Service
10/18/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The classic biblical tale of the Exodus is effectively retold with 3-D computer-generated imagery animation in "The Ten Commandments" (Promenade), and narrator Sir Ben Kingsley leads an impressive voice ensemble. We know the story. Raised as an Egyptian prince but exiled because ...
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?
Catholic News Service
10/15/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Raucous humor alternates with a serious examination of the challenges of married life in "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?" (Lionsgate). The film, based on a stage play of the same title, explores the relationships of four affluent African-American couples as they gather in ...
Feel the Noise
Catholic News Service
10/10/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- If only the road to success were as smooth in real life as it seems to be in "Feel the Noise" (TriStar), the world would be a much nicer place. This pleasant, if naive, musical offering features main characters who sing, dance and -- in between -- make all the right connections. ...
The Heartbreak Kid
Catholic News Service
10/10/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- There are some genuinely funny moments in "The Heartbreak Kid" (DreamWorks). They are more than overshadowed, however, by other scenes so outrageously coarse that they bring to mind the legal phrase "patently offensive."
This remake of a 1972 marital comedy, originally directed ...
The Seeker
Catholic News Service
10/10/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Based on a series of award-winning children's books, "The Seeker" (Fox Walden) tells the tale of an ordinary boy with a unique destiny. Although slight and occasionally obvious, the film nonetheless has a spirit of adventure that keeps it entertaining.
As his 14th birthday ...
‘Michael Clayton’
Catholic News Service
10/5/2007, by John Mulderig
The stakes are high, the pace is fast and the performances are uniformly intense in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.). This potent legal drama, which focuses on just a few days in the complicated life of its title character, manages to deliver not only intrigue and suspense, but moral and ...
‘The Good Night’
Catholic News Service
10/5/2007, by Harry Forbes
"The Good Night" (Yari) is a meandering New York-based (though filmed in London) tale of Gary (Martin Freeman), a musician who was once part of a successful rock band, but is now a complacent commercial-jingle writer. His relationship with live-in girlfriend Dora (a brunette Gwyneth Paltrow) has ...
‘The Seeker’
Catholic News Service
10/4/2007, by John Mulderig
Based on a series of award-winning children's books, "The Seeker" (Fox Walden) tells the tale of an ordinary boy with a unique destiny. Although slight and occasionally obvious, the film nonetheless has a spirit of adventure that keeps it entertaining. As his 14th birthday approaches, Will Stanton ...
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