Stripped of pretentious excess, Danny Boyle gets his mojo back in the dig-vid zombie flick 28 Days Later.
By Luke Y. Thompson,
June 26, 2003
It's the end of the world as we know it, and it's all PETA's fault.
Oh, we humored those wacky vegan extremists when they threw paint at rich... More>>
In Whale Rider, a Maori lass confronts her heritage and destiny.
By Gregory Weinkauf,
June 26, 2003
Once in a while a film comes along that is as sound, smart, sweet and significant as can be, and Whale Rider is such a film. Fault the project on... More>>
Billy Bob comes close to nothingness in the curiously titled Levity
By Andy Klein,
June 19, 2003
Nobody can convey more, doing nothing, than Billy Bob Thornton. His minimalist style is appropriate for the ironically named Levity, but what is... More>>
"I feel all itchy," Kimber Lanning whispered in the darkened theater at Arizona Center, and it wasn't the plush AMC furniture making her skin... More>>
This peculiar prequel isn't smart enough to be Dumberer
By Gregory Weinkauf,
June 12, 2003
There is a new movie out. It is called Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd. It is a prequel to the 1994 movie by Peter and Bobby Farrelly... More>>
Ron Shelton tries to mock the L.A. cop buddy movie, but the joke's mostly on him
By Luke Y. Thompson,
June 12, 2003
Having seemingly exhausted all permutations of the sports comedy formula (Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump, etc.), Ron Shelton has now moved on... More>>
Fast cars. Big guns. Chicks in string bikinis. New Times needed someone along to see 2 Fast 2 Furious who could handle that kind of entertainment... More>>
The high-speed sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious delivers more noise and more flash
By Bill Gallo,
June 05, 2003
Whenever the stars of the adolescent street-racing fantasy 2 Fast 2 Furious were feeling balky or temperamental on the set, as movie stars are... More>>
Things are not what they seem in this comic, creepy tale of personal insecurity
By Luke Y. Thompson,
June 05, 2003
May opens with a scream, and a pair of scissors rammed into an eye socket. It continues with an opening montage of rapidly descending doll parts,... More>>
Man on the Train marks yet another successful collaboration between actor Jean Rochefort and director Patrice Leconte
By Jean Oppenheimer,
June 05, 2003
The French government should officially proclaim actor Jean Rochefort a national treasure. A fixture of Gallic cinema for five decades, he is... More>>
The Italian Job, a remake better than the original,is a steal
By Robert Wilonsky,
May 29, 2003
Another week, another remake -- summer, that season of air-conditioned originality, must be upon us. Only unlike The In-Laws, which creaked into... More>>
Matt Dillon learned his lesson early: Suck up to the Hollywood fat cats, and you'll keep working. From his adolescent launch in the troubled-teen... More>>
Parents, take heart: Finding Nemo is better than the average Disney 'toon
By Bill Gallo,
May 29, 2003
If grown-ups were meant to watch Walt Disney cartoons, God would have kept us all in the third grade for two or three decades. Still, somebody... More>>
Jim Carrey's sheer heaven as Bruce Almighty until the praying
By Bill Gallo,
May 22, 2003
Alot of moviegoers see hyperactive Jim Carrey as the second coming of Jerry Lewis, but no one's ever mistaken him for God. Clearly, he'd like to... More>>
The In-Laws is bigger and broader than the original, but not better
By Robert Wilonsky,
May 22, 2003
Occasionally I can be convinced it's the singer, not the song. I've no love for Britney Spears' "Baby... One More Time," but can't get enough of... More>>
A documentarian takes a look at the little boy -- now an angry man -- that he left back home
By Bill Gallo,
May 22, 2003
The Chicago-based filmmaker Steve James rose to prominence in 1994 with Hoop Dreams, a gritty, uncomfortably intimate portrait of two inner-city... More>>
Keanu Reeves and the Wachowski brothers deliver a fresh helping of May tricks
By Andy Klein,
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 -- if the... More>>
Ross Hunter, dead seven years, hasn't been this alive at the movies since the 1950s and '60s, when he produced some of the weepiest melodramas... More>>
Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies actually requires a brain cell or two?
By Luke Y. Thompson,
May 15, 2003
It's usually right about this time of year that film critics, especially those of advancing years, begin to feel a slow chill of dread creep up... More>>
Wind bags a few charming laughs, but mostly meanders
By Gregory Weinkauf,
May 08, 2003
Just to admit this up front, my ideal concept of musical comedy involves Bryan Adams and Dave Matthews garroting each other onstage with their... More>>
