The MovieMaven

Two wings up for 'Dragon'! All those hi-speed flying, soaring, fighting, frolicking, rumbling, tumbling, spinning, rolling, crashin...

I went back and forth before finally deciding to go for it since I heard it was "scary." The ever-supreme team of Scorsese and Di...

Light, bright, delightful. It's sweet and provides just the right amount of sugar rush.   Amy Adams is what I call a "consummate ...

An anti-thesis of "2012," "The Road" is an intimate, harsh portrait of a post-apocalyptic survival. It zooms at a micro...

Incredibly intriguing premise; push the button of a box given as a 'gift,' one gets a million dollar... and a stranger that you don...

Smart, engaging, witty. Dialogue-intensive, it's sharply written with elements of compassion and empathy with a great dose of reality a...

A story of mystery, adventure and sorcery against the backdrop of cold damp London, Robert Downey Jr. certainly presents a different kind ...

Absolutely astounding fantasy extravaganza. I was entirely immersed in this lush vortex of lively colors filled with floating mountains, li...

Absolutely delivers on an epic scale! You know beforehand that you're going for the special effects. If you enjoyed world destruction...

'Citizen' is morbidly, sickly, gruesomely entertaining. It's rare in movies when you're rooting for the bad guy. In this ca...

"Coco avant Chanel" and "Amelia" are both mediocre. There are certain films that come with high expectations, such as ...

If you could be forever ageless and flawless, sharp and strong, living a perfectly safe life - wouldn't you want to be? Is it wrong to ...

SUNNY in food paradise!  Truly a feast for the eyes and treat for the tongue at every turn. Ingenious, bright, funny. No deep moral lessons...

It's not a typical, fluffy romantic comedy. I think the title is misleading. It's more of a story about the process of confronting ...

Has very cool photography of icescapes, tense thriller with claustrophobic feel, but riddled with illogical holes. DVD: http://tinyurl.com/...

Different. I'm so used to seeing "life-like," realistic animation that I was intrigued by this old-fashioned, hand-drawn cart...