By Matt Prigge
Six Songs More Famous Than the Movies From Which They Originate
No doubt most people at Disney would like to send every copy of this splashy musical about a merry slave plantation into the sun. Unfortunately, it contains one of the company’s most beloved songs.
Will Smith Reprises His Role as Agent J in the Unasked-For Three-quel to "Men in Black"
A decade-late three-quel anticipated by nobody, this lumbering $215 million behemoth finally stumbles into theaters—punch-drunk, top-heavy, and sweating so hard it’s all but barren of wit.
A Boy Hopes to Reunite His Family in "I Wish"
Koreeda hunkers down with Koichi (Koki Meada), who lives with his mom and her parents in Kagoshima, which—in a metaphor that, fitting with the rest of the film, never feels too precious.
"Polisse" Follows the Impassioned Members of a Child Protection Unit in Paris
The young alleged victims, let alone their accused perpetrators, could be exaggerating, if not lying, and more than once we watch interrogations in which it’s impossible to tell someone’s innocence or guilt.
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- SCREEN: CAPSULES > A Man Tries to Escape the Mean Streets of Philly in "Changing the Game"
- SCREEN: CAPSULES > A Reporter Investigates Parisian College Girls Who Turn to Prostitution in "Elles"
- SCREEN: CAPSULES > A Dying Man and a Bloodthirsty Teen Decide to Kill Annoying People in "God Bless America"
- SCREEN: THE SIX PACK > Six Left-Wing Vigilante Movies
- SCREEN: CAPSULES > Kate Hudson Plays a Chipper Cancer Patient in "A Little Bit of Heaven"
- SCREEN: CAPSULES > "My Way" is an Old-School-Big Budget War Weepie
- SCREEN: CAPSULES > A Corporate Executive Moonlights as a Thief in "Headhunters"
- SCREEN: CAPSULES > "The Avengers" Starts Off Rocky But Turns Into a Fanboy’s Wet Dream
- SCREEN: CAPSULES > A Reluctant New Pope is Forced to See a Therapist in "We Have a Pope"
- SCREEN: CAPSULES > A Mysterious Stranger Takes a Clueless Real-Estate Agent on a Joy Ride in "Meeting Evil"
- SCREEN: THE SIX PACK > Six Wildly Expensive Foreign Films
- SCREEN: CAPSULES > "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" is Entertaining But Not an Instant Classic
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