Most recent movie reviews from ShowBIZ Data http://www.showbizdata.com en-us Copyright 2007, ShowBIZ Data, Inc. Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:00:00 PST Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:00:02 PST http://www.showbizdata.com/skins/sbdmain/homepage/images/sb_single.gif http://www.showbizdata.com More than one reviewer is describing The Condemned as an "extreme" version of Survivor in which 10 death-row killers from all over the world are dropped on a tropical island and told to kill one another. The last one standing gets to be released -- and with a prize described as "a wad of cash." It's... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=241992 With Next, Nicolas Cage again receives better reviews than the movie he's appearing in. Only a few weeks ago, Cage starred in Ghost Rider, which received nearly universal condemnation by critics -- who nevertheless gave good marks to Cage, with several wondering about his script choices. The film tu... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=241790 The name of the character may be Ted Crawford, but Anthony Hopkins is really back playing Hannibal Lecter again in Fracture, many critics suggest. "There's that same hissing arrogance, that same cunning squint, the same dare to all listeners: Catch me if you can," writes Michael Booth in the Denver ... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=243177 The British action-movie spoof Hot Fuzz comes from Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the creators of the 2004 zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead. For those who saw the earlier film, s'nuff said. "Hot Fuzz is one of the cleverest movie parodies to come along in some while," writes Bob Strauss in ... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=243841 Horror films rarely receive much praise from critics. Vacancy, starring Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson, is getting quite a lot of it. Gene Seymour in Newsday writes: "The movie executes its every borrowed, nerve-bruising plot twist with such gruesome efficiency that it makes you feel as grimy, wast... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=242235 No critic is giving Disturbia props for originality -- several call it a rip-off of the classic Rear Window -- but quite a few are suggesting that it uses time-tested cinematic devices successfully. A.O. Scott in the New York Times is one of them. "There are no big surprises, but the jumps and jolts... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=242610 It's not so much that Perfect Stranger is an awful movie that vexes many critics,it seems, it's that it stars the Oscar-winning actress, Halle Berry. Joe Morgenstern comments in the Wall Street Journal: "Life is full of choices, and Halle Berry has made another bad one with Perfect Stranger." Simila... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=230759 Kyle Smith comments in the New York Post: "The big-screen version of the demented Cartoon Network hit is often hilarious and always surreal." Indeed Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post apparently couldn't believe his eyes: "I just saw a movie in which a pack of french fries, a wad of ground beef a... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=245701 The supernatural horror flick The Reaping is reaping a whole lot of horrible reviews, despite the fact that it stars two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank. "Ludicrous and overstuffed," Michael Phillips calls it in the Chicago Tribune. It's a "pretentious scarefest of plagues landing in theaters the wee... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=235370 It's hard to know whether the studio was thumbing its nose at religion, but Miramax has selected the Easter holiday weekend to resurrect the double bill at the nation's theaters. That Grindhouse, which features two separate movies from writer-directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino -- as we... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=242586 Some critics, it seems, don't know what to make of Basic Instinct director Paul Verhoeven's latest film, the World War II drama Black Book. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times describes it as "supremely vulgar" and notes that it "works only if you take it for the pulpiest of fiction." That's precis... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=241173 Firehouse Dog apparently does not exhibit restrained taste. Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel remarks that he "could've lived without the shot of the dog doing his 'business' in a pot of stew. And breaking wind multiple times." But defending the movie, Bruce Westbrook writes in the Houston Chron... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=243083 Are We Done Yet? is ostensibly a sequel to 2004's Are We There Yet? But in fact it's a remake of the 1948 comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, which starred Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. In this one, Ice Cube plays the Grant role, and critics warn that he's far from an improvement. "That a glowe... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=232005 The critics don't hold out much hope for In the Land of Women, starring Adam Brody and Meg Ryan. Writes Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News: "Despite its desperate attempts to appeal to every possible age group, there is no obvious audience for this movie." Evan Henerson begins his review ... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=241503 So long as the shenanigans in Blades of Glory are taking place on the ice rink, the movie succeeds in evoking almost uninterrupted laughter, most critics agree. but, as Kevin Crust observes in his review in the Los Angeles Times, it "skates on thinner ice outside the rink." Wesley Morris in the Bost... http://www.showbizdata.com/mreviews.cfm?id=242035