Mini reviews of movies currently in theaters

Now showing Here are selected minireviews of films in theaters, listed alphabetically. Some reviews originate at other newspapers that do not award star ratings. "Appaloosa" Western Drawl. ***. R. In the late 1880s, the anxious aldermen of Appaloosa, NM, require the gunslinging services of Sheriff Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and deputy Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) bring brutally law-resistent rancher Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) to justice. They'd traveled the territories for 12 years and Hitch intones, "I'd no reason to doubt that we'd be doing just that for the foreseeable future. But life has a way of making the foreseeable that which never happens. " Yup. Throw a filly into the mix and things are bound to get complicated. Though, we're pleased to report, not in the ways you'd necessarily expect. Renée Zellweger purses her... [read full story]