The Woods (2005)

Lucky McKee, director of The Woods and of the superior May, would seem to be a real rarity among horror directors: one who actually likes women.

The Family Stone

I didn’t believe a minute of The Family Stone, but I watched two-thirds of it, because hey! Rachel MacAdams, Craig T. Nelson, Claire Danes. All appealing in anything.

Rush Hour 3 (2007)

The villain and his minions capture Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker and lead them down into the Paris sewer. The villain tells a vaguely menacing anecdote about the sewers, then offers them one last chance, tell me where the girl is and you live -- something Jackie Chan isn't about to agree to: his eyes narrow, his jaw sets.

Chris Tucker beams: "You got a deal! Thanks for showing us the sewer!"

The Bourne Ultimatum

“Engage the asset,” evil David Strathairn intones on two occasions in The Bourne Ultimatum, and each time there follows a sequence of near-identical ciphers answering the phone and snapping into action in the anonymous room where they’d been zoned out in front of the TV; it’s a sly joke that’s niftier and chillier the second time around.

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