FilmCritic entries tagged "Pierce Brosnan"

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Johnny English Reborn

by Bill Gibron on Oct 20 2011
Johnny English Reborn

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Do you want to know the power of the international box office? A marginal comedy by British great Rowan Atkinson is getting a sequel, which is shocking, considering how few in the West remember the forgettable Johnny English in the first place. Trying to build on the unbelievable appeal of the actor's Mr. Bean, a couple of former Bond scribes came up with the spy spoof, which made a pittance in the US but struck gold everywhere else. Now, eight years after the first film hit theaters, Johnny English is being "reborn" for yet another bumbling trek through the UK intelligence community. While breezy and well made, it suffers from the supreme sin of any proposed laughfest -- it's just not very funny.

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On DVD

I Don't Know How She Does It

by Jesse Hassenger on Sep 15 2011
DVD Release Date: January 2, 2012
I Don't Know How She Does It

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Early in her career, Sarah Jessica Parker showed sly comic charm in Woody Allen-ish riffs like L.A. Story (where she played an exuberant ditz) and Miami Rhapsody (where she basically played Woody Allen); Sex and the City was a natural outgrowth of that urban-sophisticate comedy, and with it came enormous, iconic success. But playing Carrie on the hit HBO show was her primary employment for a long time, and it's nice to see her freed from the couture straightjacket in I Don't Know How She Does It, ready and willing to muss her hair a little.

In fact, that's among her biggest requirements as Kate Reddy, the working mother at the center of the film: muss hair, rush around, handle shirt stains and messy purses with aplomb. Kate is an investment executive and breadwinner for her family of four. But her husband Richard (Greg Kinnear) is starting to pick up more work, too, and their lives have become an elaborate juggling act of conflicting responsibilities. When Kate's investment project attracts the attention of high-powered Jack Abelhammer (Pierce Brosnan), she must jet back and forth between home in Boston and Abelhammer in New York with even greater frequency, prompting well-worn questions about whether modern women can have it all: family, relationship, and career.

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Salvation Boulevard

by Anthony Benigno on Jul 14 2011
Salvation Boulevard

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It's an overstatement to say Salvation Boulevard, which finds its core in the ironic notion that beneath every pearly-toothed Bible thumper lurks the soul of a bad, bad man, is milking an old joke dry. After all, the real-life instances in...... more »
On DVD

Remember Me (2010)

by Chris Barsanti on Mar 11 2010
DVD Release Date: June 22, 2010
Remember Me

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A gloomy romance about beautiful people in the big, beautiful city, Remember Me flirts with preposterousness on multiple occasions but still comes through with its dramatic potency very nearly intact. Given that the film's central relationship revolves around a guy...... more »
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The Ghost Writer

by Chris Cabin on Feb 18 2010
DVD Release Date: August 3, 2010
The Ghost Writer

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The title character of Roman Polanski's new film The Ghost Writer, played by Ewan McGregor, is interviewed and hired to work on the biography of Adam Lang, a notorious, handsome British Prime Minister, within the film's first ten minutes. His...... more »
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Mamma Mia!

by Bill Gibron on Jul 19 2008
DVD Release Date: November 10, 2009
Mamma Mia!

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Not everyone can make a movie. The motion picture art form, while not incredibly complicated, contains enough nuances and pitfalls to circumvent even the most seasoned show business veteran. Perfect proof of celluloid's selective process arrives in the form of...... more »
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Married Life

by Matt McKillop on Mar 7 2008
DVD Release Date: September 2, 2008
Married Life

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Married Life, a new film from director Ira Sachs, feels very much like a film from a different era -- a fact that's mostly enjoyable, with a few minor exceptions. Set in the late 1940s, presumably in and around New...... more »
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Tomorrow Never Dies

by Christopher Null on Feb 22 2007
DVD Release Date: November 6, 2007

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The arguable nadir of the Bond series, Tomorrow Never Dies finds a weary Brosnan battling, ahem, a Rupert Murdoch-like media mogul who uses mercenaries to start wars just so he can write about them in his newspapers first. Oh, the...... more »
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Mrs. Doubtfire

by Pete Croatto on Feb 2 2007
DVD Release Date: March 4, 2008

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What was the last Robin Williams comedy that anyone was excited about? Williams wore out his welcome about the time he and pal Billy Crystal made the unbearable Father's Day in 1997. About Williams in that movie, Robert Ebert expressed...... more »
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Deep Blue

by Christopher Null on Apr 7 2006
DVD Release Date: April 11, 2006

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The ocean. It's big. It's real big. It's full of stuff. We haven't even seen most of this stuff... except in the zillions of films and TV shows that tell us about the stuff in the oceans. Sharks 3D. Aliens...... more »

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