In this week's At the Movies with Peter Travers, Rolling Stone's movie critic talks about the new Clive Owen thriller The International, a "decent but not dazzling" drama that features what Travers calls "one of the great action scenes of all time," a 15-minute shoot-out in New York's Guggenheim Museum. Unfortunately, you won't be seeing The International this weekend. How come?
It's Valentine's Day, that's why! 2009 has already been a chick flick nightmare for Travers, with films like New in Town and Bride Wars stinking up theatres. This weekend, the ladies' destination of choice will be Confessions of a Shopaholic, a fringe Scum Bucket-worthy chick flick that is redeemed by one thing: actress Isla Fisher's comedic performance. Fisher already shined in Wedding Crashers and is married to Borat in real life, so she's a first-rate comic who stars in a chick flick that's "less of a torture," as Travers says.