Incorrect comedy
With You Don’t Mess with the Zohan Sandler and his director Dennis Dugan use a sledgehammer approach.
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The Gt Smart material, so steeped in Cold War sensibilities, doesn’t work as well today.
Monsters in all their disguises
AUSTRALIAN writer-director Peter Duncan but he hasn’t worked for the cinema since the rather underwhelming Passion in 1999.
Slick tale is series business
THE second of seven books by C.S. Lewis to be brought to the screen, continues the saga of the four Pevensie children
Clooney cracks code
Leatherheads (PG) 4 stars National release FOR Leatherheads, his third film as director, George Clooney, never one to play it safe, has taken some risks.
Ghost of a chance
The Orphanage (El Orfanato) (MA15+) 3½ stars Limited national release AS the deeply disappointing Shutter demonstrated amply, filmed ghost stories present unusual challenges but they have, through the years, provided some enthralling entertainment: Dead of Night, The Uninvited and The Haunting all come to mind.
Catch a fading star
Rats and Cats (M) 3 stars Limited release HAVE Australian cinemagoers abandoned Australian films and, if so, why?
Vain search for a light touch
Then She Found Me (M) 3 stars Limited national release WHEN actors try their hand at directing, there’s always the feeling they do so because they aren’t being offered interesting roles, so they have decided to create one for themselves. It’s sometimes referred to as a vanity project.
Older Indy can’t sustain energy levels
NINETEEN years after he last cracked that stockwhip, and 27 years since he first appeared, Indiana Jones is back.
More to story than meets the eye
CLAUDE Miller is one of France’s best directors, though he’s not as well known as he deserves to be.
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