Jessica Alba

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Review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World

S trictly for the kiddies
Director Robert Rodriguez has made no bones about this one being strictly for the kiddies.
By MICHAEL C. WALSH | August 23, 2011

Review: Machete

Less is indeed more
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? In the case of Machete , the Mexploitation picture directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis, it was the trailer.
By BRETT MICHEL | September 08, 2010

Review: The Killer Inside Me

A killer with nothing inside him
Jim Thompson might be the darkest of noir writers, but Michael Winterbottom's version of Thompson's 1952 novel reduces its mirthful nihilism to lurid unpleasantness.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 30, 2010

Review: Valentine’s Day

A terrible case of VD
I hate Valentine's Day . Not the holiday — that's okay. I mean the movie by that purveyor of grotesque sentiment and smarmy comedy, Garry Marshall.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 12, 2010

The Love Guru

Derivative, crass, and boring
Guru Pitka is a self-help mogul with origins in Mike Myers’s now tired vision of the groovy ’60s.
By CHRIS WANGLER | June 25, 2008

The Eye

Two directers and still unoriginal
“I see . . . ,” says formerly blind concert violinist Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba, not believable as a musician even while visionless).
By BRETT MICHEL | February 06, 2008

Primary concerns

2008 releases offer campaign reform
The last thing people are looking for when they go to the movies is a reminder of the political crapola they are trying to escape.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 28, 2007

Awake

Incompetent Jessica Alba
“Do you think my new heart will love you as much as my old one?”
By CHRIS WANGLER | December 05, 2007

Good Luck Chuck

Crass and crude and mostly annoying humor
The only plausible scenario in this movie is the idea that a woman would be so annoyed by Dane Cook, she’d be willing to put a curse on him.
By BROOKE HOLGERSON | September 19, 2007

23 skidoo?

The Boston Film Festival: work in progress
As of press time, the 23rd Boston Film Festival was still shaping up.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 14, 2007

The Ten

Hallelujah the hodgepodge
Winona Ryder, for example, plays a newlywed who gets sexually liberated by a dummy (the wooden kind).
By TOM MEEK | August 01, 2007

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

A summer wipeout
Even as a 10-year-old Marvel Comics fan, I knew that the Silver Surfer was a dumb character.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 20, 2007

The girls of summer

The season for blockbusters, sequels, and . . . great roles for women?
It’s summer, so no one’s surprised at the onslaught of sequels, adaptations, or even movies based on toys. But films with Oscar-caliber women’s roles?
By PETER KEOUGH | May 18, 2007