The Barbarian Invasions
November 21, 2003 | Appropriately enough for a season when we traditionally divide our time between nostalgic glances backward and anxious gazes forward, we now have writer-director Denys Arcand's The…
Barcelona
August 12, 1994 | Since the death of novelist John Cheever, hardly anyone has dealt with WASP angst as sympathetically and insightfully as writer-director Whit Stillman. And that, mind you, is…
Anywhere But Here
November 12, 1999 | Natalie Portman certainly had her hands full with Darth Maul and other intergalactic bad guys in Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace. But the…
Architecture of Doom
June 26, 1992 | In the view of filmmaker Peter Cohen, writer and director of The Architecture of Doom, the terrible phenomenon of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi nightmare must be…
Arlington Road
July 9, 1999 | For as along as you remain inside the theater - perched, more often than not, on the edge of your seat - Arlington Road is suspenseful…
Armageddon
July 6, 1998 | Armageddon is the second and presumably last of the summer blockbusters about a possible collision between Earth and a giant hunk of rock. Much like its predecessor,…
Assault on Precinct 13
January 19, 2005 | It is a dark and snowy night. New Year’s Eve, to be precise. At Precinct 13, a gone-to-seed police station in the wilds of Detroit, Sgt. Jake…
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
June 8, 2001 | The thin line between boisterous fun and games and bombastic sound and fury is repeatedly crossed, and frequently smudged, during Atlantis: The Lost Empire, the latest…
Austin Powers In Goldmember
July 26, 2002 | That insistent scratching noise you hear throughout Austin Powers in Goldmember is the sound of filmmakers scraping the very bottom of the barrel. Some of the…
Auto Focus
October 4, 2002 | With all the cool detachment of a research scientist preparing a monograph for his peers, Paul Schrader takes a rigorously nonjudgmental view at the untidy life…