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>>
Eddie Murphy plays Daddy, once more, just be-'Cos'
By Robert Wilonsky,
May 08, 2003
Long ago Eddie Murphy had grown tired of Eddie Murphy parts: the fast-talking high-jiver, the preening put-on. Even before he began parodying... More>>
Raising Victor Vargas draws remarkable performances from an untrained cast
By Jean Oppenheimer,
May 01, 2003
It is rare to find a film that defies one's expectations as sweetly and satisfyingly as this coming-of-age comedy-drama from first-time feature... More>>
"I'm guessing this is pretty much the point of this movie, the reason it was made," says Bob Hoag, sounding disappointed.
The lead singer of Go... More>>
Irréversible desperately attempts to turn the world upside down
By Gregory Weinkauf,
April 24, 2003
In nature, living things prey upon each other all the time. Humanity, on the other hand, has a choice. It's flouting this choice that turns on... More>>
Edward Burns rounds up the all-stars for a Confidence game
By Robert Wilonsky,
April 24, 2003
In Confidence, Edward Burns plays Jake Vig, a con artist whose body temperature runs a few degrees below normal. Even when things seem to go bad,... More>>
Neil Jordan and Nick Nolte pull off a twitchy Gallic heist
By Gregory Weinkauf,
April 24, 2003
Imagine a large, dead Saint Bernard with its bones removed. Then visualize a hefty bellows inserted into it from behind, with a gorilla hopping... More>>
Waiting for a limo to pull up and an entourage to spill out, you can't help wondering how many tickets New Times is going to have to buy to get... More>>
When bad things happen to good kids, their Luck always holds
By Robert Wilonsky,
April 17, 2003
Better Luck Tomorrow, about Asian-American high schoolers making good grades but up to no good, arrives with the furor (albeit minor -- a rumpus,... More>>
It's no art movie, but Bulletproof Monk finally gives American audiences the real Chow Yun-Fat
By Andy Klein,
April 17, 2003
Bulletproof Monk may not be high art, but at least it has the distinction of being the first Hollywood production that gives an inkling of why... More>>
In Laurel Canyon, a little erotic temptation proves good for the soul
By Luke Y. Thompson,
April 17, 2003
When you see a glamorous movie star like Kate Beckinsale tying her hair back and wearing glasses, it's sure-fire shorthand that she's an uptight... More>>
Unlike John Nash, Spider sees little triumph over schizophrenia
By Bill Gallo,
April 10, 2003
Director David Cronenberg has led his loyal fans down some pretty spooky corridors, including the telepathic netherworld of Scanners, the violent... More>>
