The Odyssey: Lost in Time and Space
Photo: Universal The attacks on Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem ”Odyssey” kept building over the months leading up to the film’s premiere. There have been plenty of female…
They Will Kill You
Asia Reaves (Zazie Beetz) arrives at the storied Virgil building in New York City, posing as a new maid; she has ulterior motives, but quickly learns that a satanic cult…
Oppenheimer: Destroyer of Worlds
Cillian Murphy. Photo: Universal There’s a sex scene in this film that generated negative buzz, where Oppenheimer’s girlfriend tells him to read a Sanskrit passage aloud while she’s riding him.…
Miracle on 34th Street
A remake of the 1947 Christmas classic where a department store event director (Elizabeth Perkins) hires a friendly, helpful old man (Richard Attenborough) to be Santa… but then he turns…
Dexter: Brother, Friend, Serial Killer
Michael C. Hall. Photo: Showtime After the final season of Dexter, it's kind of hard to remember how well received this show was at first. The main title sequence was…
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
When Optimus Prime's old mentor is pulled out of a wreck on the moon and brought back to life, the Decepticons unexpectedly find another chance to strike at mankind. The…
X-Men: First Class
This attempt to jump-start the franchise by taking it in a new direction tells the story of how the young Professor X and Magneto (James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender) learned how…
Ratatouille: The Little Chef That Could
Photo: Pixar When creating the concept for Ratatouille, director Brad Bird got help from Thomas Keller, a distinguished chef. He advised the director on what goes on in the busy…
What Lies Beneath
Claire Spencer (Michelle Pfeiffer) discovers that she and hubby Norman (Harrison Ford) live in a haunted house; learning the identity of the spirit puts both her marriage and life at…
Psycho
A few changes were made to this scene-by-scene remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece, but in each instance they add nothing. The use of color makes the movie less scarier…