Robert Duvall's vanity project Assassination Tango wastes his time and ours
By Luke Y. Thompson,
April 10, 2003
In 1997's The Apostle, Robert Duvall took on a subject near and dear to his heart: Southern Pentecostal preachers. No one would make the film for... More>>
Colin Farrell's stuck in a Phone Booth. Shoot, already.
By Robert Wilonsky,
April 03, 2003
A man, peering through the scope of a sniper's rifle muffled by a silencer, holds hostage someone he considers an evildoer. They communicate via... More>>
Gurinder Chadha scores with a sporty crowd-pleaser
By Gregory Weinkauf,
April 03, 2003
It was only in 1967 that Great Britain struck from its jurisprudence the "common scold," essentially a crime of catty insolence for which the... More>>
Oh, look – another bad John Travolta movie. How original.
By Robert Wilonsky,
March 27, 2003
It's hard to believe they were originally going to release Basic before bombs started falling over Baghdad; if it isn't the worst movie of 2003... More>>
There's more to Stephen King's Dreamcatcher than will fit in its confusing cinematic adaptation
By Andy Klein,
March 20, 2003
Lawrence Kasdan directs and co-writes (with William Goldman) Dreamcatcher, the latest addition to the Stephen King adaptation genre, currently at... More>>
Piglet's BIG Movie provokes unprecedented sociological insights
By Gregory Weinkauf,
March 20, 2003
He's charming, yes. Humble and loyal. But who is Piglet, really? As the modern world violently shifts beneath our feet, it's time to reexamine... More>>
Against all odds – and several plot implausibilities – director William Friedkin stages a comeback
By Andy Klein,
March 13, 2003
The Hunted pits Tommy Lee Jones versus Benicio Del Toro in a battle of hand-to-hand, wit-to-wit fighting skills. Frankly, my money would be on... More>>
The brutal, brilliant City of God takes us inside Rio de Janeiro's urban decay
By Jean Oppenheimer,
March 06, 2003
Ever since Amores Perros burst onto the international scene two years ago, Latin American cinema has been experiencing one of the most fertile... More>>
Antoine Fuqua and Bruce Willis lend nobility to brutes
By Gregory Weinkauf,
March 06, 2003
John Shaft went to Africa, so why shouldn't Die Hard's John McClane? In the new action romp Tears of the Sun, Bruce Willis undertakes a jungle... More>>
Steve Martin almost gets Down with Queen Latifah, but the two mostly strike out
By Luke Y. Thompson,
March 06, 2003
You know Internet dating's become totally mainstream when Disney cranks out a bland comedy featuring a randomly selected pair of mismatched stars... More>>
A POW movie to please everyone? It just might have happened.
By Luke Y. Thompson,
February 27, 2003
Thinking about contemporary war movies, it's hard to bring to mind one that doesn't offend some group or another. If it's a "war is hell" movie... More>>
Someone's got to say it, so let's start here: We've underestimated Will Ferrell.
Honestly, it wasn't that hard to do. His Saturday Night Live... More>>
Ron Shelton combines Ellroy and Ayer to get a familiar bad-cop movie in which L.A. burns
By Robert Wilonsky,
February 20, 2003
Dark Blue, according to its credits, is based upon a story by Los Angeles-born author James Ellroy, who pens grisly and guilt-ridden pulp-noir... More>>
Kevin isn't the only thing Spacey in this overlong death-penalty drama
By Luke Y. Thompson,
February 20, 2003
Right-wing pundits will be coming out of the woodwork to holler about this one. Bad enough, they'll say, that The Life of David Gale attacks the... More>>
Jungle fever fails to fully catch hold again in this routine sequel
By Andy Klein,
February 13, 2003
Anybody who's cracked open a recent Disney G-rated DVD has probably witnessed the ultimate in sequelmania: On Lilo & Stitch, for instance, the... More>>
Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan are Knights fallen on their arses
By Robert Wilonsky,
February 13, 2003
If nothing else, because there's nothing else to this movie, Shanghai Knights allows Jackie Chan, he of halting dialogue and poetic movement, to... More>>
Daredevil is a grown-up adaptation, but still too two-dimensional
By Robert Wilonsky,
February 13, 2003
The fanboy suckled at the teat of comic-book writer-artist Frank Miller, circa 1980-81, will be satisfied, for the most part, with this cinematic... More>>
Kate gets the hard sell in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
By Gregory Weinkauf,
February 06, 2003
A staire & Rogers. Hepburn & Tracy. Heck, Ball & Arnaz, Houston & Washington or Vardalos & Corbett. Over the decades, Hollywood has proven that... More>>
Gary Hardwick fails to Deliver Us From mediocre comedies
By Luke Y. Thompson,
February 06, 2003
Director Gary Hardwick's first film, The Brothers, was a refreshing take on the single black man romantic comedy, offering a surprisingly mature... More>>
