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Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway—
Get Smart
—02/23/08
I watched anything I could get my hands on that Lily Tomlin was in. I'd watch a lot of Meryl Streep movies. Women who have spectacular timing.
Ella Enchanted (2004)
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
Toy tiaras for orphans! (the first one's always free)...Another day, another dollar for Disney's lucrative business of breeding...ever-longing dream princesses.
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
With
Brokeback Mountain
, Ang Lee paints...symbolist drama (is it coincidental that the film begins in Signal, Wyoming?).
Hoodwinked (2005)
Too seldom clever, too often tiresomely busy, and wasteful of its voice cast, it's
Hoodwinked
that is the crime.
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
If it rarely becomes more than a conventional Hollywood movie with conventional conflicts, at least it remembers to amuse, and has a force of nature in Streep.
Becoming Jane (2007)
Get Smart (2008)
For the summer months, it'll do nicely, and we can all thank our lucky stars that we get Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart.
Bride Wars (2009)
It's like the Whack-a-Mole of everything reasonable people hate about so-called 'chick flicks.'
Valentine's Day (2010)
Now, don't get me wrong.
Valentine's Day
is bad. But it's difficult to
hate
a Garry Marshall movie.
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
More tiresome than entertaining, especially with mind-numbing CGI exhaustion setting in early.
Rio (2011)
Despite its exotic setting, the personal connection of Rio-bred director Carlos Saldanha, the odd eye-popping sequence, and a lot of literal color, the new CGI-animated
Rio
turns out to be figuratively colorless.
One Day (2011)
One Day
's annoying artificiality comes with no compensatory effervescence, a requirement of a romantic picture.
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
The Nolans consider the issues of the day...explore the role of legendary heroes (from Robin Hood to Batman and Robin) in galvanizing the public, and labor mightily to ensure that how their Batman ends dovetails with 2005’s
Batman Begins
.
Les Misérables (2012)
A mixed bag of suitable and not-so-suitable choices. On balance, though, it's about as compelling a screen version of
Les Mis
as we have any right to expect...Pop a dramamine and you'll be fine.
Rio 2 (2014)
Rio
was pretty generic to begin with, and the follow-up doesn't fly far from the nest...[it's the] vocally virtuosic amorous aria, 'Poisonous Love,' that is the picture's hands-down highlight.
Interstellar (2014)
Love is what's really between the stars, y'all.
The Intern (2015)
A popular entertainment with two movie stars in likeable mode, a sunny Hollywood sheen, and a novel premise. And yet there’s something vaguely unsettling about how Myers’ mildly amusing comedy gets tangled up in political (in)correctness.
Colossal (2016)
We find ourselves, with Gloria, neck-deep in an allegory of id. You can hope and pray otherwise, but your inner demons will always come out: some way, somehow, some day.
Ocean's Eight (2018)
Ross brings a reasonably sure hand and plenty of eye candy to this slick, glitzy fantasy, which is no more or less than an amiable, star-powered trifle.
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