Evanston Century 12/CineArts 6

Australia

A refined English woman (Kidman), saddled with an inherited cattle ranch in the former British penal colony’s wild frontier. A rugged ne’er-do-well called “Drover” (Jackman), who...

Bolt

Bolt is a transitional corrective to the mediocre kiddie chum that Disney has been generating for years. When Pixar chief John Lasseter took over the studio’s entire...

Cadillac Records

Ah, the race-conscious musical biopic. Cadillac Records, an earnest, raucous but minor film about the trajectory of independent R&B label Chess and its profound...

Changeling

Great directors have an ability to make any material their own and take risks where others would demur. That is not to say that the subject of 78-year-old Clint...

Doubt

Four Christmases

Family plus Christmas equals nightmare. That seems to be the calculation guiding this festive frolic, in which Vince Vaughn and...

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

This sequel picks up where its 2005 predecessor left off: The four main mammals head back to Manhattan, only to wind up somewhere on continental Africa. Evil penguins, posh British chimps and an...

Milk

Sean Penn plays Harvey Milk, the gay politician who was assassinated in San Francisco in 1978. Is the director of ‘Elephant’ and...

Punisher: War Zone

Review coming soon.

Quantum of Solace

Revenge is a dish best served cold. Which, along with mean and lean, is how Daniel Craig plays 007 in Paul Rudd fix? Blessed with a sense of comic timing that would impress Jack Benny,...

Slumdog Millionaire

The lifeline. Ask the audience. “Is that your final answer?” The rampant global success of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? has less to do with personality (sorry,...

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The central idea of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas—a child’s naive view of the horrors of the Holocaust—forces viewers into a constant awareness of the distance...

Transporter 3

Bombastic is too mild a word for the ferocious carnage at the heart of this old-world shoot-’em-up, the third in a trilogy that never lets its narrative torpor...

Twilight

It turns out that the battle between good vampires and bad vampires all comes down to hair. Eternally 17 vamp dreamboat Edward Cullen (Pattinson) has a hypnotic head of honey-colored locks...