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Gallic Phallic Humor

French director Francis Veber serves a little straight white whine with his wacky gay farce

By Mark V. Moorhead
Jul 5, 2001

There's plenty of French star power in The Closet (Le Placard), a comedy written and directed by prolific director Francis Veber. The movie stars Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu and Thierry Lhermitte, which in U.S. terms is roughly equivalent to a movie featuring Robin Williams, Nick Nolte and Tom Hanks, directed...
Do Little Indeed

Who needs a plot when you have Eddie Murphy talking to the animals?

By Mark V. Moorhead
Jun 21, 2001

Having recently stolen Shrek as a talking donkey, Eddie Murphy is back in the multiplexes again, this time as a man who can, presumably, talk to donkeys. In the course of Dr. Dolittle 2, in which he plays a veterinarian who can talk to the animals, Murphy yaks it up...
Toothless Croc

Paul Hogan aims for the family crowd with this tame installment

By Mark V. Moorhead
Apr 19, 2001

So, which is correct -- "more leathery" or "leatherier"? What the heck, let's try them both: Paul Hogan, who was leathery in Crocodile Dundee, and leatherier in Crocodile Dundee II, is more leathery still in the dreary Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. Leathery or not, the Australian, now around 60,...
Damning with Faint Praise

Keanu Reeves, the low-wattage movie star, somehow makes Sweet November easier to watch

By Mark V. Moorhead
Feb 15, 2001

Sara is quirky and free-spirited. That at least is the premise of the hilariously wretched new weepie Sweet November, of which Sara, embodied by the breathtaking Charlize Theron, is the heroine. But if you're smart enough to run in terror at the threat of a character who's quirky and free-spirited,...
Mexican Combo Plate

Billy Bob's adaptation of Pretty Horses mixes together too many ingredients, all of them undercooked

By Mark V. Moorhead
Dec 21, 2000

It's where Walter Huston found paradise at the end of The Treasure of Sierra Madre, where murdering lovers Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw rode into the sunset at the end of The Getaway, and where Thelma and Louise were headed when they ended up at the Grand Canyon. There are...

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