Joel Schumacher

THE BOY WHO KNEW TOO MUCH

Whacks and Wayne

Over-amped, overhyped, Batman & Robin strike out at bat

Open Bar

Dueling attorneys cloud the issues in Coppola's The Rainmaker

Snuff Already

8MM's stock situations reloop familiar territory

Spider Bites

Overstuffed plot, empty action ruins Spidey’s run

17 + 6 - 5 + 1 - 3 + 7 = 23!

Shocking numerical revelations await in Jim Carrey's totally freaking random thriller

Cape of Good Hope

Shocking numerical revelations await in Jim Carrey's totally freaking random thriller

Bat Cave-In

Origin story has Baleful side

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise

Phantom Menace

Musical comes up from the cellar at last

Music Man

Catch Andrew Lloyd Webber tribute in Queen Creek

Saint Veronica

A slick remake of a barely­fictionalized biopic renders Irish reporter Guerin's story as Hollywood truth.

Dead to Rights

Stripped of pretentious excess, Danny Boyle gets his mojo back in the dig-vid zombie flick 28 Days Later.

Wrong Number

Colin Farrell's stuck in a Phone Booth. Shoot, already.

Smoking Rock

Someone must have been to come up with Bad Company

Vein Glory

Exploitation cinema becomes art in E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire

Win, Lose or Draw

Or: How do you bring a comic book to life without killing a superhero?

TV Jeebies

Or: How do you bring a comic book to life without killing a superhero?

THE NIGHT OF THE GUANO

Or: How do you bring a comic book to life without killing a superhero?

Compared with Last Summer’s Comic Book Flicks, Wolverine's Blades Are Disposable

Or: How do you bring a comic book to life without killing a superhero?

(100) Days of Summer Films

Or: How do you bring a comic book to life without killing a superhero?