No Way Out

Navy officer Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is posted at the Pentagon where he starts having an affair with Susan Atwell (Sean Young)… who turns out to be the Secretary of Defense’s (Gene Hackman) mistress. This remake of The Big Clock (1948) ups the ante by moving the story to the corridors of (considerable) power. The last hour of the film has many nail-biting moments…
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Published 2010-02-09 07:24. Read this capsule review

Transamerica

Stanley (Felicity Huffman) is about to have a male-to-female sex change operation when he finds out that he has a teenage son (Kevin Zegers) who’s been getting into a lot of trouble. This film tries to show a mainstream audience what it means to be a transsexual in the context of a road movie, but that’s also one reason why it becomes rather conventional. The movie is slick, has a sense of humor…
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Published 2010-02-08 18:10. Read this capsule review

Last Chance Harvey

Down-on-his-luck jingle writer Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) goes to London to attend his daughter’s wedding and has a chance encounter with Kate Walker (Emma Thompson), an equally single and depressed saleswoman. After making Stranger Than Fiction (2006) together, the two stars looked for another project and found this sweet, romantic story about finding love…
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Published 2010-02-07 10:39. Read this capsule review

The Twelve Chairs

Shortly after the Russian Revolution, ex-nobleman Ippolit Vorobyaninov (Ron Moody) learns that the family jewels are hidden in a set of twelve chairs that are now scattered all around. This oft-filmed story became director Mel Brooks’s next project after The Producers (1968). Shot in Yugoslavia, Brooks’s Eastern European heritage gives flavor to this wild comedy…
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Published 2010-02-03 10:25. Read this capsule review

King of California

Charlie (Michael Douglas) is released from a mental institution and moves into his daughter’s (Evan Rachel Wood) house; they have many issues to resolve, but Charlie becomes obsessed with a treasure that may be buried underneath a Costco. A very pleasant directing debut from Mike Cahill who provides Douglas with a role that’s his most meaningful in years…
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Published 2010-02-02 17:08. Read this capsule review

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The deranged Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) escapes from a mental asylum and builds a powerful criminal organization that threatens to destroy whole cities unless someone kills Chief Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers). The last movie was such a hit that a fifth entry in the series became necessary and now director Blake Edwards pulls out all stops. This one is completely nutty and much like the director’s…
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