Friday, December 14, 2012
The first of three films to come from the predecessor to J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" is visually arresting, but runs low on substance for its extensive length, according to critic Richard Roeper.
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Friday, December 14, 2012
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first of three films based on J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 children's book, opened late Thursday night in theaters across North America. All the most dedicated Tolkien fans, the ones who have followed every step of The Hobbit film project since it was formally announced five years ago, have likely already seen it. Should you? Critic Richard Roeper doesn't seem so sure. Watch Roeper's review, above. Director Peter Jackson's three Lord of the Rings films, based on Tolkien's three later books set in the world of Middle Earth, were released to great popular and critical response between 2001 and 2003. They earned more than $3 billion worldwide and became for the sword-and-sorcery genre what the Star Wars films …
Saturday, November 17, 2012
"Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 2," "Silver Linings Playbook," and "Anna Karenina" arrived in theaters Friday.
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Saturday, November 17, 2012
If you have a "Twilight" fan in the house, you already know that film franchise's latest installment arrived in theaters Friday. Mr. Moviefone thinks you should drop your teenaged vampire wannabe off at the box office and pick them up later, rather than cough up cash for your own ticket. Watch the video to see what he thinks of the other new arrivals in this weekend's cinema offerings.
Friday, March 4, 2011
An unsatisfying ending hobbles this otherwise promising adaptation of a Philip K. Dick short story. Matt Damon stars.
"The Adjustment Bureau" is one of those movies that's very exciting and entertaining while you're watching it, but completely falls apart upon further reflection. It's exceptionally filmed, edited and acted, but the script is a mess and the ending is a copout that at the same time makes just about no sense. The film, which has sat on the shelf for an extended period of time, is yet another Philip K. Dick adaptation - by this point, I'm pretty sure everything he ever wrote has become a movie at least once. The plot is a hash of "The Matrix," "Inception," and "The Manchurian Candidate," with a little bit of religious allegory thrown in for good measure. It's also a little bit of a drama, with a whiff of sci-fi, romance and action. Matt Damon…
