Melanie Laurent

**1/2 (out of four) With a good magic trick, you feel just as tickled during the illusion’s setup as you do after the big finish. In the magician heist-thriller “Now You See Me,” giddy mind games just give way to indifference. At least...

"Beginners" houses: In director Mike Mills' "Beginners," Christopher Plummer portrays Hal, a 75-year-old father who comes out of the closet late in life -- and lives in the Lovell Health House, the Modernist masterpiece by architect Richard Neutra....

We meet Oliver as he is cleaning up his father's bungalow and dumping Dad's prescription pill supply down the toilet.  His father has died, and we can see in Ewan McGregor's face that this is but the latest blow to a guy who hasn't been happy in a very...

For a July 4 holiday weekend, there is much to choose from but not much that offers a compelling argument that you see it. “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” may be an improvement over the second film, but it's still the silliest, emptiest of...

Plowing through the latest edition of Production Weekly, I see nary a Florida film shoot on the slate, which was my reaon for checking it. We aren't giving away money like Louisiana and Georgia, so there's still a lot more production in those states. A...

The Franco-Russian farce “The Concert” is a caper comedy in which the caper involves a bunch of politically outcast musicians passing themselves off as a famous Soviet era orchestra. Their goals are simple — to finagle a trip to Paris,...

"Avatar" trounced the competition at Thursday's Saturn Awards, winning all 10 of its bids, including best sci-fi film, the four acting prizes for leads Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana and supporting players Stephen Lang and Sigourney Weaver, and two...

Publicly, the movie that the Weinstein Co. is pushing hard for the best picture Oscar is "The King's Speech," which stars Colin Firth as Britain's King George VI trying to overcome a nervous stammer. But that notoriously sneaky Harvey Weinstein has a...

The trouble with “Now You See Me”  — or any other movie about magic — is that you know there's going to be a huge twist at the end. These movies make you wait until the last minute to find out who was really in control, how...

May 31 (TheWrap.com) - Summit's thriller "Now You See Me" follows a group of magicians who call themselves the Four Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco) as they use varying techniques to pull off elaborate heists. Mark...

In something of a box-office surprise, the once iron-clad star Will Smith and his new "After Earth" lost Thursday night to the seeming upstart "Now You See Me." The futuristic sci-fi adventure vehicle for Smith and his son Jaden pulled in $1 million in...

With so many remakes, sequels and familiar subjects hitting theaters between now and Labor Day, this year's summer movie season should be dubbed as "deja viewed." There are sequels by the numbers: "Smurfs 2," "Red 2," "Kick-Ass 2," "Despicable Me 2,"...