WEDDING CRASHERS
Vince Vaughn commits rampant acts of comic zeal while the script around him crumbles in a movie that loses its…
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THE LONGEST YARD
Peter Segal (“50 First Dates”) successfully helms his third Adam Sandler project in this funny modernized retooling of Robert Aldrich’s…
MADAGASCAR
A foursome of digitally animated zoo animals escape the inner city confines of Manhattan’s Central Park Zoo in search of…
CINDERELLA MAN
Ron Howard expertly utilizes the music of silence to underscore the deeply felt drama based on real-life boxing underdog James…
OFF THE MAP
You’ll get more entertainment value by staring into your refrigerator than you will by watching this meandering meditation on what…
MELINDA AND MELINDA
After a string of forgettable comedies Woody Allen returns to form with an energetic movie that contemplates the raw narrative…
IN MY COUNTRY
John Boorman (“Deliverance”) shapes an imperfect film centered around Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Hearings which allowed 21,800 Apartheid victims to…
THE UPSIDE OF ANGER
Writer/director/actor Mike Binder (writer on HBO’s “The Mind Of The Married Man”) is to blame for this melodramatic game of…
RACING STRIPES
There’s something oddly satisfying about seeing a notoriously disobedient wild animal like a zebra racing alongside horses. Cole Smithey.
HOTEL RWANDA
Director Terry George (“Some Mother’s Son”) handles the potentially suffocating subject matter with a grace and subtlety that breathes precious…
THE WOODSMAN
Debut director Nicole Kassell compassionately explores the troubled psyche of a former pedophile struggling with inner demons and external obstacles…
MEET THE FOCKERS
This sequel to the mediocre Ben Stiller comedy “Meet The Parents” is a bawdier but inferior movie that relies on…
BEYOND THE SEA
“Beyond the Sea” is a labor of love from Kevin Spacey. Cole Smithey.
COACH CARTER
Inspired by events lived by real-life basketball coach Ken Carter in 1999, the openly didactic and lengthy movie succeeds via…
COLE SMITHEY’S CLASSIC CINEMA
