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2003 Stories by Andy Klein

• Scot Free

  published July 17, 2003

  The title Morvern Callar may sound like an Edward Gorey book or a job designation for telephone solicitors, but it's actually a name --... More >>

• Hollow Man

  published June 19, 2003

  Nobody can convey more, doing nothing, than Billy Bob Thornton. His minimalist style is appropriate for the ironically named Levity, but... More >>

• Neo Sparrin'

  published May 15, 2003

  Talk about tough acts to follow: The original 1999 Matrix, a critical and commercial smash, came almost as a revelation out of nowhere --... More >>

• Chow Time

  published April 17, 2003

  Bulletproof Monk may not be high art, but at least it has the distinction of being the first Hollywood production that gives an inkling of... More >>

• The King Is Dense

  published March 20, 2003

  Lawrence Kasdan directs and co-writes (with William Goldman) Dreamcatcher, the latest addition to the Stephen King adaptation genre,... More >>

• The Stunted

  published March 13, 2003

  The Hunted pits Tommy Lee Jones versus Benicio Del Toro in a battle of hand-to-hand, wit-to-wit fighting skills. Frankly, my money would be... More >>

• Year of the Coma

  published February 20, 2003

  It's been nearly three years since Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Perhaps it's... More >>

• Bearly Necessary

  published February 13, 2003

  Anybody who's cracked open a recent Disney G-rated DVD has probably witnessed the ultimate in sequelmania: On Lilo & Stitch, for instance,... More >>

• Where the Heart Isn't

  published January 30, 2003

  It used to be that the only Korean films to be seen in the U.S. were somber art-house films like Jeong Ji-yeong's White Badge or veteran Im... More >>

• Old News

  published January 2, 2003

  It's never a good sign when somewhere in the vicinity of half of my most memorable moviegoing experiences in a given year come from... More >>

• In the Ghetto

  published January 2, 2003

  There have been other films dealing with the Jewish ghettos during the Nazi occupation of Poland -- some very good -- but The Pianist, the... More >>