Jennifer Connelly

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Review: The Dilemma

Note to Vaughn: it's time to move on.
Such defining efforts as Cocoon and Apollo 13 seem light years away for Ron Howard after his meanderings in the pages of Dan Brown ( The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons ) and this tripe about men behaving badly.
By TOM MEEK | January 19, 2011

Review: Creation

The origin of specious
God-fearing creationists won't find anything to worry them in Jon Amiel's stiff, stodgy, PBS-style telling of the life of Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany) during the time he was writing (slowly, very slowly) The Origin of Species .
By GERALD PEARY | January 20, 2010

Review: He's Just Not That Into You

Reduces both men and women to shrill stereotypes
And why isn't he? Could it be because you're needy, nagging, and possibly psychotic?
By PETER KEOUGH | February 04, 2009

Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still

We're doomed
The scene set in McDonald's makes sense, unlike the rest of the plot.
By BRETT MICHEL | December 17, 2008

Dance, Monkey: The Steamy Bohemians

We put a couple of comics on the hot seat. This week’s victims . . .
We can’t believe she chose her baby brother over David’s Bowie.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | November 06, 2007

No Reservations

Author John Burnham Schwartz on adapting his novel, Reservation Road
Rage itself becomes a monster.
By JENNY HALPER | October 18, 2007

Open city

The 2007 Toronto Film Festival
In the pioneering early-’80s days of the Toronto Film Festival, the audience actually rose before movie showings for a canned recording of “God Save the Queen.”
By GERALD PEARY | September 18, 2007

Labyrinth

David Bowie in tights
Of course I imagined I was Jennifer Connelly.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | June 27, 2007

Blood Diamond

Raping Africa for ratings
After centuries of raping Africa for its resources, now we exploit its misery for our amusement. Watch the trailer for Blood Diamond (QuickTime)
By PETER KEOUGH | February 20, 2007

Little Children

Bums out suburbanites and makes Oscar happy
Suburbia is hell, and serious Hollywood movies from The Graduate to American Beauty have been there to point fingers on the lawns of the damned. Watch the trailer for Little Children (QuickTime)
By A.S. HAMRAH | February 20, 2007