Eric Rohmer

Critics are a small movie's best friends - and vice-versa. Films that arrive in a city without TV commercials or print ads, often months or years after their international premieres, rely on reviewers to get out the word that they've landed at a local art...

In his underrated, split-personality comedy "Melinda and Melinda," Woody Allen took the outline of a dinner party story and re-imagined it twice, as a frothy farce and a florid melodrama. Chris Rock has done something of the same with one of Eric Rohmer'...

HUGH GRANT is sent many scripts for romantic comedies. "There's one sitting on my computer right now," the movie star says from his home in England. "It starts in hell. I won't go any further." Indeed, what's offered to Grant, the swankily good-looking,...

Chris Rock has never had trouble getting people riled up with his stand-up. With his latest movie, "I Think I Love My Wife," Rock's ready to do the same thing with his film career. "When I'm on tour, I always get people coming up to me later on, 'Me...

Richard (Chris Rock) is an investment banker with a loving wife and two kids, but he's bored with his comfortable life and his sexless marriage. In walks Nikki (Kerry Washington), a hottie gal pal from Richard's past who wants more than to rekindle the...

2½ stars (out of four) Two films do not a sociological study make. But judging from the roughhouse Chris Rock redux of Eric Rohmer's 1972 film "Chloe in the Afternoon," retitled for U.S. distribution from the original "L'Amour l'après-midi," the...

MOVIE REVIEWS 'My Wife' is Chris Rock's most mature effort, and the most dated.Women don't come off terribly well in "I Think I Love My Wife," writer-director Chris Rock's comedic "update" of the 1972 Eric Rohmer drama, "Chloe in the Afternoon." It's...

Few experiences skirt closer to the absurdity of farce than the process of remodeling a home. The delirious dislocations of Feydeau have nothing on the moment when your contractor informs you that the cute little faucet you picked up on the cheap will...

2½ stars (out of four) Ax llan Brocka's easygoing film version of Matthew Rettenmund's novel "Boy Culture" is narrated by an emotionally guarded hustler, known only as "X" to his 12 steady clients. Thirty and wary, X (Derek Magyar in his feature debut)...

From Wes Anderson to Sidney Lumet, this year's New York Film Festival is dominated by top American directors spanning generations. Though the NYFF has always put forth a highly international slate of selections, this year's fest -- the 45th annual --...

3 stars (out of four) Movies set in academia, such as "The Paper Chase," often have a tendency toward self-congratulatory intellectualism and a fixation on collegiate romance. "Poison Friends" (or "Les Amities Malefiques") is instead a psychological...

(PG-13). A gloriously insightful serio-comedy revolving around a plain-Jane student singer and the ever-widening circle of people who compete with her for the attentions of her successful father (played with cock-of-the-walk perfection by Jean-Pierre...