Emily Mortimer

"For more than a decade, the beloved franchise has lain dormant," reads a rather delightfully florid passage in the publicity materials for the new "Pink Panther" movie, "its reintroduction to contemporary audiences reliant on finding the perfect actor to...

As a follow-up to the Oscar-winning "Spirited Away," Hayao Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle" boasts the same excellent animation, subtle humor and imaginative vision. Its biggest problem, however, is the director's ambitious, intuitive storytelling, which...

Arriving on the big screen after lengthy delays and preceded by a dreadfully unfunny trailer, it's almost a relief to declare that Steve Martin's take on "The Pink Panther" isn't nearly as awful as you may have feared. Sure, it's a bit of a lame,...

Emily Mortimer has joined the cast of "Lars and the Real Girl," a romantic comedy about a man and his doll. The film stars Ryan Gosling ("Half Nelson") as a lonely man who falls in love with a doll he finds on the Internet. Although Production Weekly...

New releases: "Stuart Little 2" (PG)--Stuart Little has a death-defying adventure and his first romance in this handsomely wrought sequel, a neat blend of live action and computer animation, based again on characters from E.B. White's classic. Tots and...

Samuel L. Jackson now transforms himself into cornrowed Elmo McElroy, in England to introduce a new designer drug to the European underworld. But in Liverpool, he finds himself caught with a bizarre escort, played by Robert Carlyle ("The Full Monty"),...

Friday June 9, 2000      Writing musical theater was not an option for William Shakespeare, but Kenneth Branagh hasn't let that trouble him. He's turned Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" into a 1930s-style romantic musical comedy, garnished with retro...

Friday July 7, 2000      Even in an age of relentless branding, calling a new family fantasy "Disney's The Kid" is a bit unnerving. Was there a worry about confusing eager crowds who might be expecting a re-release of the classic 1921 Charlie Chaplin-...

SEE CORRECTION APPENDED "Lovely & Amazing" is all but indescribable, and what a good thing that is. Like the best of personal, independent cinema--terms that too often provide cover for a multitude of sins--it is both marvelously observed and...

The proverb goes, "Laughing bride, weeping wife. Weeping bride, laughing wife." Whatever. The lackluster "A Foreign Affair," about two American brothers from the heartland who head to Russia on a romance tour to find a wife — not for love, mind...

No one does grim movies better than the British. While mainstream filmmakers churn out eager-to-please trifles such as "Calendar Girls" and "Love Actually," more critically acclaimed, less commercial British auteurs busily hone the aesthetics of misery as...

Between the end of summer and the edge of winter and the holiday season, the movies shrink. The budgets are lower; the weekend totals dip. As young acolytes await the second coming of Harry Potter on Nov. 15 and older fans count the days until Pierce...