Gemma Arterton

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By | January 01, 0001

Review: Tamara Drewe

Arterton, Evans avoid the madding crowd
Stephen Frears's witty film version of Posy Simmonds's graphic novel — itself a loose adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1873 novel Far from the Madding Crowd — hews closely to its immediate source while lightening the tone and adding sly, Hardy-esque detail.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | October 13, 2010

Review: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Acrobatic loner thrust into the arms of a princess
This, the most artistically successful video game-to-screen translation yet (which isn’t saying much), could have used more of its own magical Sands of Time, which endow the possessor with time-rewinding, mistake-correcting powers.
By BRETT MICHEL | June 04, 2010

Review: Clash of the Titans

Divine badness reigns
It takes a lot of movie magic to reduce some 3000 years of mythology to piffle. After watching this farrago produced by state-of-the-art 3-D and CGI, I’m all for the return of the oral tradition.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 02, 2010

Review: St. Trinians

Earns a passing a grade
Some out-of-work A-list British actors end up at Hogwarts. Others must settle for St. Trinian’s.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 15, 2009

Truly Tess

Hardy, for once, gets his due
Any film/TV adaptation of Hardy is in fact rare.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 29, 2008

Quantum mechanic

Little Solace for Bond fans
Little Solace for Bond fans
By PETER KEOUGH | November 14, 2008

Autumn peeves

Films with a full agenda
With pundits already reading political significance into summer blockbusters like The Dark Knight (“Is Batman a stand-in for George Bush? Discuss.”), the meatier movies of fall arrive not a moment too soon.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 11, 2008