John Woo

Mission Impossible -- Ghost Protocol: Tom Cruise Lives Another Day

Inglourious Basterds: Tarantino Makes the Nazi Occupation of France Ridiculously Fun

Run and gun without the fun in Sega's The Club

Chow Time Again

Message Bored

Hollywood ho-hum horror keeps ripping off the best, turning out the worst

Don't Believe the Hype

Despite nonexistent marketing, Cuarón’s latest is not to be missed

Bait and Switch

A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment

Abort

Running the franchise into the ground

Exit the Matrix

The Matrix: Path of Neo is more chop suey than chopsocky

Senior Moment

Jan Decleir shines as a senile hit man

Ghost in the Machinist

Christian Bale brings gloomy mystery to life

Shell Shock

The sequel to Ghost in the Shell is a feast for the eyes, but a disappointment for the brain

Forget It

You saw Paycheck last year... don'tcha remember?

Pirates of the Refried Bean

In Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the outlaw Johnny Depp saves the day

Chow Time

It's no art movie, but Bulletproof Monk finally gives American audiences the real Chow Yun-Fat

The Pain Train

Two years later, a digital-video short film became an overnight ad sensation

Old News

Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded some good harvest

Whose Truth?

Jonathan Demme remakes Charade, but it's hardly an imitation

Native Tongues

Windtalkers spins a World War II epic around Navajo codetalkers

A Real Howler

Brotherhood of the Wolf tears through cinema's most boring season

Flaming Wreck

Owen Wilson goes down Behind Enemy Lines but lands in familiar terrain

O, Brother, When Art Thou?

Tim Blake Nelson's new Othello seems to be a man out of time

Cut to the Chase

Pointless but furiously paced, Time and Tide serves up tasty fast fu

Little Buggers

Undercover and underage, Spy Kids earns its license to thrill

Russe Hour

Fast-paced 15 Minutes is gone in 7,200 seconds

Ang Has Sprung

With Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee reinvents the martial arts movie for the art house crowd

Drunken Masterpiece

By any other name, soundtrack or edit, The Legend of Drunken Master is still an action classic

Lotsa War, Not Much Art

Go for the hot action, not the plot, in The Art of War

The Implausible Scheme

Logic-challenged M:I-2 still manages visceral pleasures

Shout at the Mullet

Call me a heretic, but this follicle fashion is cause for sheer terror

Son of Siam

Anna and the King remake rates an "Aye!"

On the Lam

This "official" John Woo knockoff is less than dazzling

Home, James

Bond franchise runs out of gas in Tomorrow Never Dies

The Devil and Todd McFarlane

Spawn's creator revolutionized the comic-book industry. But did he survive Hollywood with his soul intact?

New Faces of 1997

Travolta and Cage Face/Off in mug-slinging match

Hong Kong and Vine

Facing off with Face/Off director John Woo

Hong Kong Phooey

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman make an effective enough Double Team

Techno Prisoners

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman make an effective enough Double Team

Oppression Roulette

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman make an effective enough Double Team

BLOODY GOOD SHOW

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman make an effective enough Double Team

STALKING FEAT

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman make an effective enough Double Team