This week at the movies, we’ve got cell phone shivers (One Missed Call, starring Shannyn Sossamon and Edward Burns) and a sweeping war drama/romance (Atonement, starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy). What do the critics have to say?
The first frame of 2008 brings only one new release which means the North American box office should be ruled mostly by holiday holdovers. The horror picture One Missed Call will give fans of scary movies something new to nibble on.
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The career of Paul Thomas Anderson, whose first four features will be screened this weekend at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, is on the minds of cinephiles with the arrival of his fifth movie, “There Will Be Blood.”
Directing a movie that has rolled up over $706 million in worldwide grosses can leave a guy feeling festive on New Year’s Eve — as Michael Bay’s fans found out when they visited his official site in the waning moments of 2007.
If you’re the type of moviegoer who greets the annual wave of sequels with groans and eyerolls, USA Today has some good news for you: In 2008, you can expect to see far fewer of them at a theater near you.
In the borderlands of Thailand’s Golden Triangle, a rugged region known for its drug smuggling and impoverished hill tribes, one man devotes himself to the welfare of the region’s children.
Despite some fine performances, The Kite Runner is just shy of rendering the magic of the novel on to the big screen.
IN THEATRES DECEMBER 14, 2007 (Limited) Francis Ford Coppola returns to the director’s chair for the first time in nearly a decade with his ambitious parable YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH.
Though cutely rendered, Alvin and the Chipmunks suffers from bland potty humor and a rehashed kids’ movie formula.