Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

[5] George Clooney directs this quirky tale based on the possibly true story of Chuck Barris, creator of The Dating Game and The Gong Show, and who may also have been an assassin for the CIA. That is, if we're to believe…
Collateral (2004)

Collateral (2004)

[7] Jamie Foxx stars as an L.A. cab driver forced to chauffeur a hitman played by Tom Cruise. Director Michael Mann (Heat, Last of the Mohicans) works from a solid script by Stuart Beattie that balances action and suspense with plenty of…
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

[7] Julianne Moore stars in this true story based on the life of Evelyn Ryan, a '50s housewife and mother of ten who kept her family afloat by writing award-winning marketing jingles. Director Jane Anderson manages to keep the movie light and…
Stay (2005)

Stay (2005)

[3] In this morose and supremely depressing film from Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland), a troubled college student (Ryan Gosling) seeks the help of a shrink (Ewan McGregor), who then investigates the boy's life to see if there might be any…
Rendition (2007)

Rendition (2007)

[6] In the world of shady post-9/11 politics, an innocent man (Omar Metwally) is seized by the CIA and tortured in a foreign country while his wife (Reese Witherspoon) and a doubtful CIA analyst (Jake Gyllenhaal) work on opposite sides of the…
What Lies Beneath (2000)

What Lies Beneath (2000)

[7] Is Michelle Pfeiffer seeing a ghost in her lakeside home, or is she just losing her mind? That's the premise behind this intimate thriller from director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future). Pfeiffer does a fine job and Harrison…
Pulse (2006)

Pulse (2006)

[1] Pulse is astonishingly bad in almost every way imaginable. The only nice thing I can say about it is that leading lady Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) seems to be doing the best she can with the material. But other than that,…
Thirteen (2003)

Thirteen (2003)

[7] As if pre-teen and teenaged girls didn't already scare the shit out of me, Catherine Hardwicke (who later helmed the first Twilight flick) had to go ahead and direct this harrowing descent into hormonal angst. Evan Rachel Wood turns in a…
Trick ‘r Treat (2007)

Trick ‘r Treat (2007)

[7] This decent little horror anthology produced by Bryan Singer serves up four tales of Halloween fright. Each of the stories feels like a small-town myth, the kind that haunts a community for generations. I particularly liked the one about a school…
The Butterfly Effect (2004)

The Butterfly Effect (2004)

[5] Talk about a hard pitch. Try to follow me here. So, there's this kid. And whenever something dramatic is about to happen to him, his memory blacks out. He basically jumps a minute or two into the future, all confused and…