Posted on November 20, 2004 at 6:06 am
Alexander the person was great. “Alexander” the movie is not. It is a horrendously bad movie, a genuine 40-car pile-up of literally epic proportions, a three-way head-on collision of bad writing, bad acting, and bad direction. It is not just misguided, it is truly terrible in a way that is almost fascinating to watch. But …
Posted on November 18, 2004 at 6:20 pm
D| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Mild sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Social drinking, characters drink in response to stress |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended comic violence, illness |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2004 |
This meretricious claptrap is exactly the kind of baloney it purports to be saving us from. There’s a reliable genre of family holiday movie that is made up of three-fourths slapstick followed by 15 minutes of sentiment. In this case, however, the characters are so unpleasant, the jokes so un-funny, the sentiment so blatantly hypocritical …
Posted on November 18, 2004 at 1:16 pm
A-| Lowest Recommended Age: | 4th - 6th Grades |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Discussion of Holocaust and some images of concentration camps |
| Diversity Issues: | The theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2004 |
This is the touching story of Whitwell, Tennessee,a small coal mining community (population 1600) outside of Chatanooga. The population is almost entirely white and entirely Christian. When the local school set out to teach children about tolerance and diversity, the teachers realized that most of the children had never seen a person from another country …
Posted on November 17, 2004 at 6:50 am
A-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: | Some mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking cigars |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Intense and constant peril, machetes and guns, dead bodies, non-graphic violence, characters beaten and killed |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2004 |
“How can they not intervene when they witness such atrocities?” Rwandan hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) asks an American journalist (Joaquin Phoenix). “They’ll see this footage,” he answers. “They’ll say ‘Oh my god, that’s horrible,” and go on eating their dinners.” Rusesabagina was a manager at a luxury hotel, the man who always knew …
Posted on November 16, 2004 at 1:31 pm
C+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: | Mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | A couple of kisses, reference to pregnancy |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Action-style violence, a lot of peril and explosions, a few images of corpses/skeletons |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2004 |
This is a big, dumb, stunts and explosions movie that doesn’t quite make it even by action movie standards because it has a big, dumb script. Two Oscar-winning actors, location filming, tricked-up quick cuts, a thundering and blaring score, enormous and elaborate sets, and big explosions to blow up the enormous and elaborate sets can’t …
