Movies

Forces of Nature goes through all the motions without moving us very much.

This time out, the old chestnut looks like a Happy Meal.

Passionate, not sentimental, The Las tDays chronicles the Hungarian Holocaust.

A buddy-buddy-buddy-buddy movie barrels through the seamy side of swingin’ England.

This melodramatic soap opera lacks the genuineness of the book.

Ken Loach’s My Name Is Joe offers up an unsentimental local hero.

In Cruel Intentions, high school kids inherit the burden of Laclos’s social games.

The General adroitly animates real-life Irish crime boss Martin Cahill.

True to form, director Garry Marshall keeps the mood light in The Other Sister.

Substance is sparse in the dialogue-heavy world of 200 Cigarettes.

Excessive reverence knocks October Sky way off course.

Jawbreaker and Office Space take different approaches to plot development and reach different levels of success.