The Door in the Floor was adapted from John Irving's A Widow for One Year
By Melissa Levine,
July 22, 2004
The opening moments of The Door in the Floor are not promising. A little girl stands on a chair in a hallway of photos, pointing at the images... More>>
Nature is the star of The Story of the Weeping Camel
By Bill Gallo,
July 15, 2004
Fair warning: If the behavior of camels in the Gobi Desert during the spring birthing season is not high on your things-to-learn-about list, and... More>>
It's one of the oldest stories in cinema, and possibly the history of storytelling: A man is kidnapped by a baddie wielding a deadly weapon. His... More>>
Moore's controversial documentary paints a portrait of incompetence
By Gregory Weinkauf,
June 24, 2004
A strong toxin requires a strong antidote. In the case of the Bush administration, the cure is being served in significant part by Michael Moore,... More>>
It's often a challenge to fairly assess a film that, by its very conception, is simply targeted to an entirely different demographic from one's... More>>
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>>
