Movie Reviews

'Frozen' musters only a few chills

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

The three players of "Frozen" kill some time while suspended on a ski lift discussing the worst ways to die. For them, it turns out that being suspended on a ski lift, forgotten and left to freeze after the resort staff goes home for the night,... Full story

Travolta plays action hero in 'Paris'

By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer

In the space of just a few weeks, we have movies starring Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and John Travolta. It's like the early '90s all over again. Nostalgia is on Travolta's mind, too. In "From Paris with Love," he plays a violent but chatty CIA... Full story

The moody noir of 'Terribly Happy'

By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer

Years of moviegoing have familiarized us with tales of city folk waylaid in country towns — quirky Southern backwaters and dusty desert holes. It turns out that the convention works especially well in, of all places, rural Denmark.... Full story

Get out your hankies for 'Dear John'

By GLENN WHIPP, For the Associated Press

The movie is called "Dear John," and, yes, there's a character named John and, yes, he's a soldier who, sure enough, receives dozens of letters from his sweetheart back home, including one emotionally wrought missive that begins "Dear John" and... Full story

Mel Gibson returns in 'Edge of Darkness'

By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer

It's been seven years since his last film, but Mel Gibson is still playing martyr. One might fairly call Gibson "The Crusader," and not just because of his widely known religious views or because he directed "The Passion of the Christ." For much... Full story

'Saint John of Las Vegas' no divine comedy

By GLENN WHIPP, For the Associated Press

The deadpan comedy "Saint John of Las Vegas" opens with Steve Buscemi walking into a Vegas convenience store, plopping down an envelope full of cash and asking for a thousand lottery tickets. "Why not?" he asks with a mixture of defiance and... Full story

'Extraordinary Measures' is ordinary drama

By GLENN WHIPP, For The Associated Press

The medical drama "Extraordinary Measures" has been marketed as another "Blind Side," a true story about quiet heroism, doing the right thing and overcoming great odds. There's much pulling of the bootstraps and milking of the tear ducts on the... Full story

'Tooth Fairy' full of smiles, cliches

By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer

Just weeks after something dubbed a "squeakquel," we have a movie advertised with the tagline: "You can't handle the tooth." One quakes for the marketing that awaits us for "Marmaduke." Just as Hollywood has been digging through the superhero... Full story

'Fish Tank' is social realism at its best

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

A bit of guilt comes with watching the British teen drama "Fish Tank." Writer-director Andrea Arnold has created something so real and raw, you may come away with a twinge of guilty voyeurism, a sense of peering too closely and impolitely into... Full story

Denzel saves the world in 'Book of Eli'

By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer

In the future, according to "The Book of Eli," we'll all dress like we're in a Nine Inch Nails video. It is written. Most everyone wears goggles and leather in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of "The Book of Eli." A meteorite and a subsequent war... Full story

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