HUGO ***1/2 Movie mavens startled by the fact that Martin Scorsese has elected to direct a family film when he’s exalted for his string of hardcore crime flicks clearly know […]

J. EDGAR **1/2 No one could possibly have fathomed that someone as handsome as Leonardo DiCaprio and someone as homely as Ernest Borgnine would ever play the same character, but […]

PUSS IN BOOTS ** Stanley Roper was arguably the funniest character on the long-running TV series Three’s Company (not a difficult feat, admittedly), but that didn’t mean it was wise […]

THE THREE MUSKETEERS * Break out those No. 2 pencils, cuz it’s time for a pop quiz. Which line of dialogue is not spoken in the latest screen adaptation of […]

TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL *** At this late date, “smart slasher flick” might seem like an oxymoron, but Tucker & Dale vs. Evil isn’t your typical slasher flick. Instead, […]

THE IDES OF MARCH **1/2 Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Clooney, not to praise him. It’s not that I love Clooney less, but that […]

50/50 **1/2 The new comedy-drama 50/50 centers around a cancerous presence, and that refers to Seth Rogen as much as it does to the malignant tumor found located on the […]

DRIVE *** Walter Hill, a fine writer-director who knows a thing or 12 about helming testosterone-tinged flicks with an existential bent about them (Hard Times, The Warriors, The Long Riders, […]