May 4, 2001 | Lots of directors seek inspiration in the classics of Alfred Hitchcock – did somebody say Brian De Palma? – but relatively few actually learn the right lessons…

November 14, 1997 | Arriving in the wake of Jane Campion's  wrong-headed Portrait of a Lady and Agnieszka Holland's heavy-handed Washington Square, Iain Softley's The Wings of the Dove is all…

January 23, 2004 |  There's something at once eerily retro and exuberantly campy about Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! A giggly throwback to teen-skewing romantic comedies of 30 or…

September 21, 1990 | Clint Eastwood rides into White Hunter, Black Heart  at full gallop -- literally -- and pounces on his every line, dominates every scene in which he appears,…

July 27, 2001 | As many of you doubtless have guessed by now, when it comes to comedy, I'm a notoriously cheap laugh. Whenever Moe hits Larry with the frying…

August 17, 1995 | The trouble with so many movies about tomorrow is that they seem so much like yesterday's news. Take Virtuosity, the latest in the current rash of science fiction…

November 25, 1998 | If Quentin Tarantino had somehow commandeered There's Something About Mary, you might have gotten something very much like Very Bad Things. Written and directed by Peter Berg, heretofore…

November 27, 2002 | If you’re seeking respite from the overbearing sound and fury of most heavily-hyped holiday season releases, spend some quality time with Personal Velocity, Rebecca Miller's subtle, psychologically…

December 14, 2001 | When dreams are for sale, do they come with tech support? Can you dream that you are having a dream? If so, what happens when the…

May 7, 2004  | Van Helsing, the latest monster mash from writer-director StephenSommers (The Mummy, The MummyReturns), is a chaotic blur of recycled archetypes from classic horror flicks, action sequences unbound…