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2002 Stories by Andy Klein

• Menorah-ty Report

  published December 5, 2002

  After garnering a bushel of positive critical notices less than two months ago for his work in Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love,... More >>

• Mad Love

  published October 24, 2002

  Punch-Drunk Love is a Paul Thomas Anderson film -- Paul Thomas Anderson of Magnolia and Boogie Nights fame. It is also an... More >>

• Crazy Taxi

  published October 10, 2002

  In the last few years -- more or less since the failure of his embarrassing Joan of Arc epic The Messenger -- former wunderkind director... More >>

• Heart to Heart

  published August 8, 2002

  Blood Work, Clint Eastwood's 23rd directorial effort, is a crime thriller in the mode of, but better than, True Crime (1999) and... More >>

• Native Tongues

  published June 13, 2002

  The opening credit sequence of Windtalkers — a montage of Monument Valley — instantly invokes memories of the opening of John... More >>

• Memental

  published May 23, 2002

  The bad news for Memento fans is that Christopher Nolan's Insomnia is far less complex and challenging in form than the... More >>

• Bad Deal

  published May 2, 2002

  Like Vulgar and Chelsea Walls, Deuces Wild is yet another new release now inexplicably being distributed theatrically... More >>

• Whither Woody?

  published May 2, 2002

  Ten years after The Scandal -- and its negative effect on the size of his audiences, power and independence -- Woody Allen broke his longtime... More >>

• Snoozie Q

  published February 14, 2002

  Following his dazzling change-of-pace performance in Training Day, Denzel Washington returns to more familiar turf in another of his... More >>