Eastwood takes a guilt trip down the mighty Mystic River
By Robert Wilonsky,
October 16, 2003
Dave, a man who's barely there, lulls his son to sleep with stories of a boy lost in the woods who escapes from wolves; it's a thrilling bedtime... More>>
A slick remake of a barelyfictionalized biopic renders Irish reporter Guerin's story as Hollywood truth.
By Gregory Weinkauf,
October 16, 2003
Veronica Guerin isn't at all a bad movie, and some kind things will be said about it here. But cynical appraisal also has its place, so we'll... More>>
Despite many strong stars, this Grisham adaptation amounts to squat
By Luke Y. Thompson,
October 16, 2003
Watching Hollywood's endless stream of John Grisham adaptations -- The Firm, The Chamber, A Time to Kill, etc. -- it would be easy to assume that... More>>
Having already produced a book (Disco Bloodbath) and directed a "shockumentary" (Party Monster) about the "Club Kids" scene that rose brightly... More>>
The teacher, not the teaching, makes this School of Rock
By Robert Wilonsky,
October 02, 2003
D irector Richard Linklater's School of Rock imagines, sort of, what might have become of voluble rock snob Barry the morning after his grand... More>>
Scott Baio reawakens his heritage in The Bread, My Sweet
By Bill Gallo,
October 02, 2003
If your name ends in a vowel and your people came over in steerage a hundred years ago, you will almost certainly find yourself in the kitchen... More>>
Between The Rock and a hard place, The Rundown isn't so bad
By Robert Wilonsky,
September 25, 2003
The script for The Rundown has lingered for more than a decade and was originally a Patrick Swayze vehicle, well before those wheels fell off.... More>>
Lions tames Duvall and Caine with feel-good corn pone
By Robert Wilonsky,
September 18, 2003
Secondhand Lions is cornier than the cornfields spread out in front of the dilapidated rural Texas manse inhabited by Robert Duvall and Michael... More>>
There's something funny, not scary, about Cold Creek Manor
By Robert Wilonsky,
September 18, 2003
Never mind the trailers, which advertise Cold Creek Manor as some kind of horror-thriller, complete with the image of a hand emerging from the... More>>
In Matchstick Men,a father meets daughter and sets a paper moon ablaze
By Robert Wilonsky,
September 11, 2003
When Nicolas Cage plays still and sullen -- a man possessed by self-loathing and melancholy in Adaptation, say, or the landlocked angel in City... More>>
Most will deny it, but inside every grown man lurks a hypersensitive adolescent girl. Allow me to tell you all about mine and to share some of my... More>>
The 1990-'95 run of Saturday Night Live, when the show was a playground populated by the likes of Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Dana Carvey, Chris... More>>
Despite disquieting subtext, Jeepers Creepers 2 is a reasonably entertaining shocker
By Luke Y. Thompson,
September 04, 2003
As one who assesses creative works, you try to separate the individual artist from the output they produce. Watching Bedtime for Bonzo, you don't... More>>
Stranded in northern Scandinavia, three foreigners go Cuckoo
By Jean Oppenheimer,
August 28, 2003
Maverick Russian director Alexander Rogozhkin hit upon a clever idea for his idiosyncratic anti-war fable The Cuckoo (Kukushka in Russian). The... More>>
The Legend of Suriyothai gives 16th-century Thailand an epic identity
By Gregory Weinkauf,
August 21, 2003
If, in keeping with current fads, you seek movies featuring females kicking a bunch of ass, your appetite will be tended (and cultivated) at the... More>>
Wonderland 
Mystic River 
Veronica Guerin 
Intolerable Cruelty 
Kill Bill: Volume 1 
Party Monster 
Out of Time 
School of Rock 
The Bread, My Sweet 
The Rundown 
Under the Tuscan Sun 
Underworld 
The Fighting Temptations 
Secondhand Lions 
Cold Creek Manor 
Matchstick Men 
Once Upon a Time in Mexico 
Thirteen 
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star 
Jeepers Creepers 2 
The Magdalene Sisters 
American Splendor 
The Cuckoo (Kukushka) 
The Legend of Suriyothai