Sleuth (2007) Movie Reviews

Sleuth (2007)

On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife’s heart.

The Golden Compass (2007) Movie Reviews

The Golden Compass (2007)

In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization.

Awake (2007) Movie Reviews

Awake (2007)

The story focuses on a man who suffers “anesthetic awareness” and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery. His mother must wrestle with her own demons as a turn of events unfolds around them, while trying to unfold the story hidden behind her son’s young wife.

The Mist (2007) Movie Reviews

The Mist (2007)

A freak storm unleashes a species of blood-thirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.

August Rush (2007) Movie Reviews

August Rush (2007)

A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.

Enchanted (2007) Movie Reviews

Enchanted (2007)

A princess, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York by an evil queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer.

Hitman (2007) Movie Reviews

Hitman (2007)

A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as ‘The Organization’ is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Russia and Eastern Europe.

I’m Not There. (2007) Movie Reviews

I’m Not There. (2007)

Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician’s life and work.

No Country for Old Men (2007) Movie Reviews

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007) Movie Reviews

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents’ jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother’s wife hurtling towards a shattering climax.

Beowulf (2007) Movie Reviews

Beowulf (2007)

The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing Denmark, and later, Grendel’s mother, who begins killing out of revenge.

Control (2007) Movie Reviews

Control (2007)

A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.

Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) Movie Reviews

Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.

Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007) Movie Reviews

Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007)

Molly Mahoney is the awkward and insecure manager of Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world. But when Mr. Magorium, the 243-year-old eccentric who owns the store, bequeaths the store to her, a dark and ominous change begins to take over the once-remarkable Emporium.

Fred Claus (2007) Movie Reviews

Fred Claus (2007)

Fred Claus, Santa’s bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole.

Lions for Lambs (2007) Movie Reviews

Lions for Lambs (2007)

Injuries sustained by two Army rangers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor.

American Gangster (2007) Movie Reviews

American Gangster (2007)

In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.

Bee Movie (2007) Movie Reviews

Bee Movie (2007)

Barry B. Benson, a bee just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry’s life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue them.