Biopic fails to go beyond one-dimensional portrayal of Rose
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Generally, you won&#39;t find a wig listed above the marquee of a movie, but if ESPN wanted to bill the true star of Hu$tle, a dark and mostly disappointing depiction of Pete Rose&#39;s gambling days as Reds manager, it would organize a conference call
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The stiff historical epic tries to recreate the famous Queen as a modern figure, without much success
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The film's literary plot, about a man who hears an author narrating his life, never quite moves beyond generic.
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Russel Crowe's new film does not do justice to him.
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Gurinder Chadha's film, which transports Jane Austen's 1813 novel to 21st-century India, is as high concept and rife with cliche as anything ever churned out by Hollywood.
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Martin Scorcese's new film is a lavish,  but shallow, spectacle.
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For most audiences today, Sylvia Reganâs melodrama about an immigrant family on the Lower East Side seems more like an overwrought soap opera.
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The actress met children suffering from cancer on the occasion of Rose Day recently.
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Biography has never been Hollywoodâs greatest strength. Too often, directors figure that an amazing life and a solid impersonation in the lead role is all you need.
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Scarlett Johannson stars in an adaptation that is better than it has any right to be
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A 17th century "Star is Born," though with interestingly convoluted sexual politics and a provocative historical thesis.
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Judd Apatow's slacker romantic comedy is not only hard to believe, but hard to swallow
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But the film does not have most of the answers.
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Alexander, Oliver Stoneâs biopic of Alexander the Great, violates that rule spectacularly, not only because it nauseates us with repeated assertions of the king and warriorâs greatness, but
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Two films tackle a subject that Hollywood usually prefers to avert its eyes from
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It may have a captivating title, but this film has little else going for it.
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The current wisdom in Hollywood tells us the musical biopic is a dead genre. With documentaries all the rage, there&#39;s just not much of an audience for an impersonation anymore, and dramatizations about the