Subject: Philip Seymour Hoffman

• Welcome to the Madhouse

  Filmmaker Todd Solondz beats the sophomore jinx with his darkly brilliant Happiness

  November 5, 1998

• Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

  May 22, 2008

• Steven Soderbergh’s Che wins the only Cannes award that matters: ours

  May 29, 2008

• In Synecdoche, New York, Art Imitates Life Imitating Art

  November 13, 2008

• Tom Cruise Plots to Kill Hitler in Valkyrie

  December 25, 2008

• The Best Movies of 2008

  January 1, 2009

• Support Group

  The year's best characters

  January 3, 2008

• Moolah for Mullahs

  All aboard the '80s way-back machine

  December 20, 2007

• Savage Love

  Testing familial bonds, one nursing home at a time

  December 20, 2007

• Sidney Lumet's Long Journey

  November 8, 2007

• All in the Family

  November 8, 2007

• The Music Men

  Halfway through Sundance and still whistling a happy tune

  January 25, 2007

• When the Stars Came Out

  November 16, 2006

• Impossibly Passable

  November 2, 2006

• Repeat Offender

  A second, slimmer Capote movie fails to improve on its predecessor

  October 12, 2006

• All-Day Suckers

  Sedaris and Colbert peddle Candy not everybody wants

  July 13, 2006

• It Girl

  Welcome to the Cult of Katie Rose. Hope your liver can handle it

  May 25, 2006

• Abort

  Running the franchise into the ground

  May 4, 2006

• Rogues' Gallery

  Racists, louts, and terrorists earned their place among the best of 2005

  January 5, 2006

• Erika Rolfsrud

  Making 'em laugh

  December 1, 2005

• Cash Cropper

  Never strays from the dull telling of a tall tale

  November 17, 2005

• Writes and Wrongs

  A murder leads to a masterpiece leads to an undoing

  October 27, 2005

• Sects and the City

  May 13, 2004

• A Mountainous Achievement

  Cold Mountain sets the new standard for Civil War drama onscreen

  December 25, 2003

• Bemoaning Mahowny

  If there was any life to this reality based drama, the filmmakers seem to have missed it.

  July 3, 2003

• Ground Zero Hour

  A man's last day of freedom becomes Spike's meditation on 9/11

  January 9, 2003

• Far From Happy

  The year's best featured plenty of sad white guys

  January 2, 2003

• Mad Love

  Adam Sandler's truly disturbing . . . but deliberately so this time

  October 24, 2002

• Klieg Lights in Vermont

  State and Main's ducks are crowded head to tail in their barrel

  December 21, 2000

• Backstage Past

  Cameron Crowe's autobiographical Almost Famous is a classic rock gas

  September 21, 2000

• Short Cutlets

  A Magnolia by any other name still smells like Altman

  January 6, 2000

• The Damon Switch Project

  The Talented Mr. Ripley is a who's who of identity crises

  December 30, 1999

• Doctor Giggles

  Robin Williams' Patch Adams is an undoubted misfire

  January 7, 1999

• Summer Guide: Coppolla, Mann, Allen, and Tarantino Bring the Summer Flicks

  June 4, 2009

• Ricky Gervais Can Get Only So Far (or So Funny) with The Invention of Lying

  October 1, 2009

• Pirate Radio Gets a Tame U.S. Release, but We Still Love Rock 'N' Roll

  November 12, 2009