By Andrew Sarris 6/12/06 12:00am

Mutants on Mutants! Again! Does Ratner’s X-Men Succeed?

Brett Ratner’s X-Men: The Last Stand, from a screenplay by Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn, based on the Marvel Comics characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, has already suffered all the critical slings and arrows inevitably directed at the third reworking of a comic-book series that began with Bryan Singer’s X-Men in 2000, Read More

By Andrew Sarris 5/26/03 12:00am

It’s Affectionate and Smart, And I’m Down With Love

Peyton Reed’s Down with Love , from a screenplay by Eve Alhert and Dennis Drake, turned out to be much more amusing and incisive than I had anticipated when I managed to catch an early-morning screening, along with a scattering of other paying customers, at the Clearview Beekman Theatre. The studio publicists had earlier sent Read More