Everyone loves tigers, save perhaps for those actually being mauled to death by them. Men like 'em because they're wild beasts; women like 'em... More>>
Terminal fear: Tom Hanks lives every traveler's worst nightmare
By Bill Gallo,
June 17, 2004
Getting stranded at snowbound O'Hare for the night is one thing. You call home, maybe knock down a couple of martinis, then grab a blanket. A... More>>
"The whole sordid affair is craptacular-craptacular."
By Robert Wilonsky,
June 17, 2004
You might think that with the technological advances in moviemaking since 1956, this new version of Around the World in 80 Days would at least... More>>
Childhood games turn into obsession in Love Me If You Dare
By Gregory Weinkauf,
June 17, 2004
It's a sign that a nation may be losing its collective mind when it grants a nutty hack like Quentin Tarantino an exalted title like Officer of... More>>
Those seeking a spiritual counterpart to the yin of Lynne Ramsay's masterfully moody Morvern Callar will find their yang in David Mackenzie's... More>>
What the #$*! is going on in What the #$*! Do We Know?
By Robrt L. Pela,
June 10, 2004
I've just seen a film that is either a brilliant parody of scholarly documentaries or else final proof that I am the stupidest person on Earth.... More>>
High school outcasts and Jesus freaks duke it out in Saved!
By Melissa Levine,
June 10, 2004
Beware the exclamation point. When found at the end of a title, it almost inevitably signals a level of self-hype rarely justified by the content... More>>
Those seeking a spiritual counterpart to the yin of Lynne Ramsay's masterfully moody Morvern Callar will find their yang in David Mackenzie's... More>>
Hopped up and hip: Coffee and Cigarettes brings the cool
By Robert Wilonsky,
May 27, 2004
The first time through, you might dismiss Coffee and Cigarettes as a filmmaker's recess, playtime before the serious business of making a real... More>>
Sitting through Raising Helen is an exercise in frustration, because somewhere inside this big heap of Hollywood nothing is a something (someone,... More>>
A man eats fast food for a month -- guess what happens
By Robert Wilonsky,
May 27, 2004
What becomes of Morgan Spurlock's body after a month of eating and drinking nothing but McDonald's assembly-line foodstuffs is not surprising. He... More>>
Korean director transforms social philosophy into visual poetry
By Gregory Weinkauf,
May 27, 2004
Ever-evolving, always changing, the universe nonetheless sustains many constants: Hair metal never really goes away. British women inevitably... More>>
The first few minutes of Shrek 2 are cluttered with more references to the movies than David Thompson's thick, rich history text New Historical... More>>
What Alice Found sees a girl become a woman by turning trucker tricks
By Luke Y. Thompson,
May 13, 2004
What Boogie Nights did for porn stars, What Alice Found does for truck-stop hookers. That is to say, the film takes a sleazy profession, sexes it... More>>
Breakin' All the Rules packs all the fun of a mediocre sitcom
By Luke Y. Thompson,
May 13, 2004
If even one of the major networks had a successful sitcom in the vein of Friends but with an all-black cast, movies like Breakin' All the Rules... More>>
If only Dogville were at least involving enough to be perplexing. Sigh. In simplest terms -- which it definitely deserves -- Lars von Trier's... More>>
Cry of the Snow Lion offers a cinematic primer on Tibetan history
By Luke Y. Thompson,
May 13, 2004
It's interesting to see how conventional political assumptions get turned on their heads when it comes to the case of Tibet, a nation militarily... More>>
Ben Coccio's mock documentary gratuitously rehearses the school shooting scenario
By Melissa Levine,
May 06, 2004
The setting: an institutional high school in the affluent suburbs. The protagonists: two boys -- intelligent, charming and smoldering -- with... More>>
An Israeli clan takes its Broken Wings and tries to fly again
By Bill Gallo,
May 06, 2004
In Israeli writer-director Nir Bergman's Broken Wings, we never see an automatic weapon, a military roadblock or a horrific explosion on a city... More>>
