Category: 2003 Movie Reviews

Spellbound

High strung, nail-biting, intense competition of spelling bees! No really, it’s true! A documentary that follows eight 8th graders as they go to compete in the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. I can’t find the information anywhere now, but I thought I read when this movie came...

Elf

Will Ferrell does not exactly fit in with the rest of the normal-sized elves at the North Pole. He is sent to New York to reunite with his biological father. I was disappointed with this movie. I knew it was a kid’s movie, but I thought it would be...

Thirteen

Holly Hunter is mother to a young girl who starts using drugs, having sex, and doing all sorts of other bad things cuz of her new cool, bad friend. The friend was also the co-screenwriter of this movie, at the ripe old age of 14. I expected this movie...

Pieces of April

Katie Holmes is the girl that couldn’t wait to get out of the suburbs. She is determined to make Thanksgiving dinner for her estranged parents in her tiny Lower East Side New York apartment where everything that could go wrong does. Katie Holmes is good in this movie. She...

The Missing

In 19th century New Mexico, directed by Ron Howard, Tommy Lee Jones comes back to New Mexico to make amends with his daughter, Cate Blanchett, but her daughter is kidnapped. The acting in this movie was really good. The story wasn’t all that interesting. It could have been, but...

Intolerable Cruelty

Coen Brothers movie starring George Clooney as a divorce lawyer and Catherine Zeta-Jones as the gold-digging wife of his client. Can they make a romantic comedy? I liked this movie a lot more than I thought I would. George Clooney and the Coen brothers make a good combo. This movie was...

Manic

  Don Cheadle is a psychologist at a mental health center for young adults. Joseph Gordan-Levitt is the lead angry guy. I had a feeling that this movie would have a good premise, but be too predictable. I actually really enjoyed it. Don Cheadle, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel...

Secondhand Lions

  This was a nice little movie. It was overly cute in parts, but it didn’t go over the top because of Michael Caine and Robert Duvall. It could have been way too sweet, but they gave it a nice edge....

Runaway Jury

John Grisham movie starring John Cusack as a juror and Rachel Weisz who isn’t on the jury and they are both trying to manipulate a court trial being run by Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. It was better in parts than I expected because I did like the twist...

Cold Mountain

At the end of the American Civil War, Jude Law journeys home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with Nicole Kidman. Renee Zellweger is in there somewhere too. I thought this movie looked pretty boring, but decided I should watch it anyway. It was much better than I expected. It was very long, but...