February 16, 2001 | If you’re going to make a romantic comedy about a sprightly nonconformist who sets her sights on an uptight fellow in desperate need of loosening up, keep…
December 10, 1999 | Emmet Ray is the greatest jazz guitarist of the 1930s – something he never tires of telling everyone he meets in Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown –…
September 27, 2002 | There's something positively mind-numbing about the relentless predictability of Sweet Home Alabama, an insipid romantic comedy that forces Reese Witherspoon, the agreeably perky star of Legally…
March 1, 1985 | The Sure Thing is a nice, sweet-natured, generally unremarkable movie that’s as comfy-cozy and satisfying as a warm bath. The biggest surprise is that it comes…
December 12, 2003 | Don't look now, but Bobby and Peter Farrelly - the cheery vulgarians who gave us Kingpin, Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary - have…
March 5, 2004 | Some very clever and extremely talented people were involved in the making of Starsky & Hutch, presumably because they couldn't find anything better to do than…
December 8, 2000 | At once intriguingly allusive and rigorously precise, in the manner of an exceptionally well-crafted short story, writer-director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward is a richly yet…
May 3, 2002 | Let me throw a great big flopping prejudice right out on the table: Even since I plunked down twelve cents for my first Marvel Comic many…
March 12, 2004 | Spartan is a nifty, twisty thriller about the hunt for an abducted First Daughter. And one of the coolest things about the movie is, nobody…
December 12, 2003 | In an age when fast-and-furious youth-skewing farces are accepted, however grudgingly, as the contemporary equivalents of classical romantic comedies, it's nothing short of delightful to encounter…