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The competitive world of step dancing may be Raya’s only ticket out of her crime-filled school and neighborhood.
In 1984, Jeff Bridges portrayed a genial visitor from another world in ‘Starman.’ Seventeen years later, it seems the interplanetary …
It was a dark and stormy night. Not really, but even a nighttime maelstrom couldn’t make the set-up of this …
Message to everyone who has ever thought their mother was controlling or overprotective: At least she’s human. At least she …
In 2003, CIA operative Valerie Plame had her cover blown in the pages of The Washington Post—payback, some suggest, for …
The Rolling Stones predate iPods, CDs, cassette tapes and even 8-tracks. Now Martin Scorsese is putting Mick Jagger and Co. …
A jury-rigged phone is Jessica’s only lifeline when she’s kidnapped. And when she uses it to call for help, she …
A cinematic retirement home full of aging musicians isn’t always a pretty sight. But it still has a beautiful song …
Seeing this movie is like seeing a friend with a bad case of stomach flu: it’s messy and unpleasant to …
It’s hard to say which is more horrible: the vampires Paul Bettany’s grim, crucifix-carrying warrior monk is forced to face …
Disparate plots intertwine in this quirky directorial debut by Antonio Banderas. It’s 1965, and as the movie begins, Lucille tells …
M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller features a puritanical village isolated from neighboring towns by fiercly foreboding woods.
The tagline for this Tom Cruise crimefest tells us that “The law has limits. He does not.” As if that’s …
This mother-son road trip movie hits its share of potholes and almost swerves off the road a time or two. …