If you thought virtual-reality thrillers and spin-offs of The Silence of the Lambs had run their course, guess again. Jennifer Lopez, who looks great in a rubber suit, keeps putting one on in order to enter the unconscious of a serial killer/mad scientist-genius (Vincent D’Onofrio) and discover where he’s hidden his latest victim; meanwhile, hot […]

Many people first experienced director Tarsem Singh’s distinctive visual style with his 1991 MTV Award-winning video for R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion,” which matched the soul-searching, mandolin-led tune with discombobulating flashes of surrealistic religious imagery, garishly saturated colors and interesting camera angles of singer Michael Stipe’s oblong, bald head.The clip mesmerized for its four-minute duration, but […]

The Cell dives into the brain of a killer, but it's a shallow pool

A movie with no plot, no logic, no meaning. Read Common Sense Media's The Cell review, age rating, and parents guide.

Lock up the tots and blindfold Granny before you enter The Cell and join research therapist Catherine Deane — that's Jennifer Lopez, taking a break from club-hopping with Puffy — on the trail of a monster with kinks that even Hannibal the Cannibal never investigated.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that the serial-killer genre had used up most of its limited variations. There have been garden-variety serial killers,...

Just when you thought that The Silence of the Lambs and its anaemic imitators had wrung the last drops of blood out of the serial killer genre, along comes this

Valerie Breiman's Love & Sex , from her own screenplay, is one of the happiest surprises of this horrendous movie season. Blessed with wry wit and high spirits, Love & Sex lifts Famke Janssen and Jon Favreau into a realm reserved for very few screen couples in this age of galloping alienatio...