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Review: Underworld: Awakening

Brief but bloody
The Underworld series got long in the tooth early, but here, in the fourth installment (directed by Swede Måns Mårlind), it grows new fangs.
By TOM MEEK | January 24, 2012

A high-quality composite of knock-offs
True to its name, this standard heist thriller is a composite of knock-offs, but when Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America is among the sources ripped off, the quality is pretty high.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 17, 2012

Miss perfect

The new BBC/WGBH Emma gets a 10
I know what you're thinking: " Another Emma ? Didn't we just have a bushel of Jane Austen adaptations for TV?" Well, WGBH did give us four new Austens, but that was all the way back in 2008, a Jane-ite eternity.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 12, 2010

Review: Everybody's Fine

It's . . . fine, we guess
You'll be forgiven if you mistake Robert De Niro's face for Robert Young's next to Kate Beckinsale's, Drew Barrymore's, and Sam Rockwell's on the poster for Kirk ( Waking Ned Devine ) Jones's remake of Stanno tutti bene .
By BRETT MICHEL | December 09, 2009

Review: Whiteout

CSI: Antarctica?
The title of this thriller from Dominic Sena ( Swordfish ) is supposed to describe a brutal Antarctic storm, but what's more likely to come to mind is the goop the film's phalanx of writers used to blot out boos-boos while revising the script.
By TOM MEEK | September 16, 2009

Review: Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Sinks to the same level as the other Underworlds
This third Underworld installment actually makes some sense.
By TOM MEEK | January 27, 2009

Snow Angels

Call it American Ugly
When a film opens with a shotgun blast that interrupts a lousy high-school-band practice on a miserable winter day, the prospects for a happy ending don’t look good.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 16, 2008

Spring brakes

Spring Arts Preview: Some diversions before the summer onslaught
Funny how spring movies can mirror the options of spring break.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 10, 2008

Masterpieces and mysteries

‘The Complete Jane Austen’ on WGBH, and making book on the Austen detectives
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that there cannot be too many Jane Austen adaptations for film and television.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 14, 2008

The Austen adaptations

By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 09, 2008

Vacancy

How's that for a twist?
What’s happened to the horror film?
By BRETT MICHEL | April 25, 2007

Click

Gooey, Capra-esque plea for respectability from Sandler
In his latest and possibly most banal plea for respect, Adam Sandler plays an architect trying to juggle the demands of family and work. Watch the trailer for Click (QuickTime)
By CHRIS WANGLER | June 28, 2006

Apocalypse now and then

Doom, damnation, and other summer fun
With Snakes on a Plane and World Trade Center opening on the same day, this summer won’t be offering the usual escapist fare.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 03, 2006

Underworld Evolution

Rating: 2 stars
In the original Underworld , sexy latex-clad vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) hunted werewolves in dingy subterranean enclaves while humans above went about their business unaware.
By TOM MEEK | January 25, 2006