Subject: Stephen Frears

• Blight Spirit

  Nil By Mouth chokes on unpalatable treatment of British working class

  April 2, 1998

• Youth Must Be Serviced

  Horny high schoolers, dangerous liaisons and Cruel Intentions

  March 11, 1999

• Our Music Tastes Rule

  Says who? Says us. Now put up your dukes.

  November 27, 2008

• The Way He Lives Now

  As his fourth film in a decade arrives in theaters, the movies' most enigmatic leading man reveals the method behind his onscreen madness

  January 3, 2008

• Cannes 2007: The Joy in the Bubble

  How many of these movies will you actually get to see?

  May 31, 2007

• It's Soooo High School

  A compliment to Rian Johnson's teen detective noir

  January 4, 2007

• Family Ties

  For Argentine director Daniel Burman, life is a movie

  January 4, 2007

• Royal Pains

  How the British monarchy survived the death of the people’s princess

  October 19, 2006

• Charlie and the Shoe Factory

  A bit of a drag, but the star keeps on shining

  April 27, 2006

• The Nude Bomb

  Shaking up war-torn Britain with an assault of the flesh

  February 2, 2006

• She's Gonna Have It

  In 2003, women continued to claim and transform the cinema

  January 1, 2004

• A Second Opinion

  Our critics pick the flicks that the best-of list overlooked

  January 1, 2004

• It's a Black Thing

  The teacher, not the teaching, makes this School of Rock

  October 2, 2003

• London Underground

  Stephen Frears delivers accidental tourists caught up in Dirty Pretty Things

  August 14, 2003

• Think Different

  Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies actually requires a brain cell or two?

  May 15, 2003

• English Ails

  Oppression, poverty and poor timing dog the desperate story of Liam

  October 4, 2001

• That's All She Wrote

  Don't bother snooping through Bridget Jones' Diary

  April 12, 2001

• Vinyl Jeopardy

  High Fidelity -- you read the book, now CD movie

  April 6, 2000

• Bin There

  Where have all the overeducated, underachieving record-store clerks gone?

  April 6, 2000

• The Mild Bunch

  Wherein the fine novel The Hi-Lo Country is transformed into a so-so movie

  January 21, 1999

• Heavy Housekeeping

  February 29, 1996

• CORPSE AND ROBBERS

  April 13, 1995